Lots of stuff

1) The book was powerful. As a gay male, I think it is important to relate the tension and perhaps uncomfortable moments the book caused me. I wonder of there is an appropriate way to make a connection in our presentation for this issue. The whole 'validity' is real, hits-home, applicable, etc.

ISSUES FROM CLASS - Relating to text

From my notes here are some topics:

Naturalistic environment- studying the subject (?)

Participatory action research- working on the effort together

Queer theory (?)

Who is the research for? For whom? Researching on whom? Research about whom?

Research as Praxis- everyone gets smarter

Ethics- Do no harm to the subject

Methodology- What was the research design? Did they pilot questions? (I can't remember)

Progressive focusing - I see this relating to questions they asked

Reciprocity

Was the data minimally or maximally mediated?

I have several other points in the notes that are 'maybes':

Troubling the binaries

False consciousness

Phenomenology

the use of bias in research work

truth of voice

Do we want to simply define these terms and explain the text relation to the class?

Dave