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?