EDUC 867
Course schedule

readings
  
Date 	Presence 	Come having done...	Pre-Readings 	Work to submit	
Jan 9 	Face-to-face #1

Suzanne will cover course expectations, structure, and readings, and discuss work for the following week (literature review and proposal draft).

Group will share & discuss research questions and carry out observation activities.
 	Develop a preliminary sketch of a research question	Skim Blaxter 	Class-based fieldnotes?? 	
Jan 16 	Atelier #1

Nick will discuss readings, go over procedures for peer reviewing, and help students prepare for the following weeks' work. 

Students will peer review each others' proposals in pairs/small groups.  	1. Prepare a literature review of five articles related to your research question.
  
Prepare a draft of your research proposal. Include a statement and description of your research question, a rationale for pursuing your question, and how you plan to address it, (e.g. what research methods you will deploy).	Denzin & Lincoln –BETTER OVERVIEW OF METHODOLOGY - Katrin 
  
Tuhiwai Smith 
  
McDermott & Varenne 
  
  	Submit by midnight on January 16th:
a 'final' draft of your literature review.	
Jan 23 	  No meeting	  	McDermott “cquisition of a child…"	Submit by midnight on January 23rd your revised and peer-reviewed proposal. 

These will be posted on the course website.	
Jan 30 	Atelier #2

Milena will review the in's and out's of getting a research ethics application approved.

Students will work in pairs/small groups to revise and complete their ethics applications.	Review Simon Fraser's procedures for developing and submitting research ethics applications, found at [LINK].

Using their guidelines and templates, prepare a draft of your own research ethics application.	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 by midnight on January 30 your revised, 'final' research ethics applications to [LINK].	
Feb 6 	Group meetings
[room numbers]

Students will divide into two separate groups of 6 each to present their chosen methodology, in powerpoint format.	Prepare a 10-15 minute powerpoint presentation on the research methodology you chose.

Your powerpoint presentation should cover:
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? 	Paradigms & prejudice (mind culture activity) 
  
Visual methodologies 	By midnight on February 6, submit your powerpoint presentation. These will be posted on the course website.	
Feb 13 	OLYMPICS 	  1. Conduct your fieldwork

2. Select and read a book/study that uses the same methodology you use (e.g., one of the "key texts" you identified in your methodology presentation).	Data-gathering practices 
- fieldnotes 
- interviews 
- observations 
- visual methods 
- focus groups 
- qu’naires 
  	  	
Feb 20 	OLYMPICS 	  	Readings (for this week and previous: “killing up”on methods) 
- Adler (observational techniques) 	Submit by midnight on February 20 a book review/report of the key methodology text you chose.	
Feb 27 	  	  	  	“Writing up”fieldwork –illustrating data 	
Mar 6 	Atelier #3

Nick will conduct a workshop on coding and analyzing your data.	Fieldwork & data collection should be DONE, or very close to it.

Come prepared with your fieldnotes, and samples of your data (interviews, surveys, audio-visual material, etc.)	  	  	
Mar 13 	ACTIVITIES 	  	  	  	
Mar 20 	ACTIVITIES 	  	  	  	
Mar27 	ACTIVITIES 	  	  	  	
Apr 3 	ACTIVITIES 	  	  	  	
Apr 10 	Suzanne 

  
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-)