867 week by week 
  
Date 	Presence 	“ome having done”- Capacitor 	Pre-Readings 	Submit 	
Jan 9 	Suzanne 
Observation activities
Fieldnotes 
Lit review talk 
Share proposals & preliminary feedback 
Readings 
  	Prelim idea for research question 	Skim Blaxter 	Class-based fieldnotes?? 	
Jan 16 	Nick –follow up 
Go over articles 
Peer review of their propsals 
Submit AT THE END of 16th 
  
Do articles –self-directed, so WE are ready to talk about this 
(* say 3 important things for each article –“e will make ourselves available to discuss articles along this timeline” 
  	5 article lit review: articles salient/relevant to your proposal. 
  
Draft of proposals 	Denzin & Lincoln Overview of qualitative research methodologies
  
Tuhiwai Smith 
  
McDermott & Varenne 
  
  	Submit two peer reviews to one another and to us.
  
Accept up until midnight that night 	
Jan 23 	  	  	McDermott “cquisition of a child…u8221  	Revised proposal: should incorporate your peers' reviews and your literature review. Submit to us, we post online 	
Jan 30 	Milena

Ethics workshop. Preparing and submitting applications for ethics review.

Milena stands in for Barb Ralph.
	Draft of ethics
(need link to ore docs) 	S. Katz Can a teacher ever know too much 
  
Periscopic 
  
Ch on betrayal  from Visweswaran 

  
Kai T Erikson "a comment on disguised observation in sociology" 
  
Punch, Politics & Ethics 	Submit ethics applications by end of the atelier.	
Feb 6 	On campus –BOOK two meeting rooms 
Two separate groups of 6 each: arbitrary 
Present methodology piece –explain their methodology 
Template powerpoint: 
1) overview/description of methodology 
2) key authors/texts/studies/concepts 
3) blind spots 
4) rationale for their choice 
5) how it informs study/ methods 
6) Primary methodological question for them at that stage? 

need room numbers  
	15 minute presentation on methodology 	Paradigms & prejudice (mind culture activity) 
  
Visual methodologies 
- Pink article	Submit their ppts to go online: furnish a typology/chart of methodologies 	
Feb 13 	OLYMPICS 
	  Put methods into practice. Articles are supposed to inform your own research by giving you validated models of data collection.

Need to PILOT your data, even if it means just one person	Data-gathering practices 
2 articles each for:
- fieldnotes 
- interviews
Oakley 
- observations
Adler 
- visual methods
Bubble dialogues (chers's?)
Photo elicitation
- focus groups 
- qu’naires 
  	  PILOT your research instruments. Even if it's only on one other person. Just make sure what you're asking your research subjects to do is clear, humane, and useful, and doesn't take up too much of their time.	
Feb 20 	OLYMPICS 

Sktype tutorials with Suzanne
To be arranged individually. At least 15 minutes' discussion on their research topic.
Come prepared with the following information:
- what methods & instruments you're using
- where you got it from (readings)
- what happened when you piloted it & how you're refining it	  			
Feb 27 	Peer to peer atelier

Bring in any & all questions to the group for a peer-led atelier in two working groups (doesn't have to be same groups as Feb 6)

Book report on a “key text”using the same methodology they’re using 

	 Preparing samples of data for analysis. Writing up fieldwork.	  	3 minute Vlog or 3 slide ppt
- what did you learn about this methodology that you could only understand b/c this is in the context of an entire book (vs one article).

How does this book deepen & extend your understanding of the methodology you want to use in your project & what kinds of methods you will use?	
Mar 6 	Nick Atelier 
Coding & Analysis 
I have to go from Van to SF 	Bring data that's able to be coded (transcripts, photographs, fieldnotes, questionnaires, a/v material, bubble dialogues, etc.)	  CODING articles
TBD.
Grounded theory?
Charmaz constructing grounded theory, ch 3 (p. 42 on)	  	
Mar 13 		  Complete fieldwork & analysis	  	  	
Mar 20 		    Complete fieldwork & analysis	  	  	
Mar27 	Skype meetings with either Sz or Nick or Milena. 
"checkpoint" -- relate problems & issues, and how you're going to address them	   Prepare presentation
15 minutes each
Ppt or other method	  	  	
Apr 3 	 	 Prepare presentation
15 minutes each
Ppt or other method	  	  	
Apr 10 	Suzanne 
Present work
  	  	  	  Submit by April 18 a 12-14 page research report.	

Course can’ run if people are late 
This is a course where everyone can get an A if you DO THE WORK –but the work is demanding. SO if you can’ do your work ON TIME, you can’ get an A. 
  
Lose one part of a letter grade for each day late (e.g. A+ work only gets an A if 1 day late; if 2 days late, A-)