Talked about the Horizon Reports in the ‘traditional’ group discussion separated by report read then whole class shout out sharing of findings.
We then went over the final presentation videos and some other more administrative stuff.
Qualitative Research – Week 9 – Class Notes
Did a Fishbowl group activity where we were presented with two ethical dilemmas.
- You are running a study with students about cheating. One child talks to their parents about it. The parent calls the dean concerned about ‘cheating’. The dean asks you to provide all the research notes or else the parent will remove their child from the study. What do you do? Surrender the notes? Talk to the parent about it? Group: remove student from study. not surrender notes.
- You are running a study on how students fall behind in the college application process. During an interview, a student clearly is going to miss the deadline since they are not aware of it. Do you tell them about the upcoming deadlines and interfere in the quality of the data of your research?
We also talked about our final papers as well as our propositions. Got our feedback from Denise the day after.
Qualitative Research – Week 9 – Reading Notes
Reading Assignment
- Altork, K. (1998). You Never Know When You Might Want to Be a Redhead in Belize. In K. deMarrais (Ed.) Inside Stories: Qualitative Research Reflections. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. pp. 111-125.
- Lincoln, Y. (2000). Narrative Authority vs. Perjured Testimony: Courage, Vulnerability and Truth. Qualitative Studies in Education 13(2), pp. 131-138.
- Page, R., Samson, Y., and Crockett, M. (1998). Reporting Ethnography to informants. Harvard Educational Review, 68 (3), 299-332. (review)
Notes
“You Never Know When You Might Want to Be a Redhead in Belize”
- Goldie: the ‘depressed and alcoholic’ friend
- Putting words in the mouth of – there was no red hair die – transcribing error?
- Morality of exposing
- Unfunded guilts
“Narrative Authority vs. Perjured Testimony: Courage, Vulnerability and Truth”
- Historical facts are all narrated
- Must tell audience what is it that they are reading – fiction or fact
- Great job in disguising opinion about subject until the end of the paper
“Reporting Ethnography to informants”
- Problems in sharing findings with participants, when and how should you do it?