- Generate a short bibliography of 2-4 key annotated readings that the exemplar makes you want to follow up on.
- What do you want to read as a result of this book? Explain what that reading is about and how it relates to the exemplar.
- Probably should be scholarly articles or books.
- Discuss how the exemplar illuminates and/or fleshes out issues raised in class.
- Discuss the exemplar in terms of the paradigms and methodologies we learned in class, i.e. deconstructive paradigm (or others), observation/interviewing/focus groups (how would we describe the methodology), issues of voice/transcription/interpretive responsibility and validity, issues of power
- Discuss one measure of validity used in the exemplar.
- We will be discussing validity, or trustworthiness, in qualitative research in class next week! We will need to describe one way that the book ensured its trustworthiness. (Two ways we've already discussed in class are member checks and reflexive notes/field journal. We should probably communicate with the other group to make sure we're doing different ones!)
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
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Member checks have been showing up more and more in the second half of the book (unless I was too ignorant to catch them in the beginning). In Chapter 11, they let Iris include a reflection to follow-up on the statements she made while using drugs and alcohol. Rita did something similar in Chapter 13.
ReplyDeletePatti's notes in Chapter 12 will probably be very important as we begin to analyze the book in relation to our class discussions.
Chapter 13 -- Patti mentions that their material turned out to be repetitive with the work of other researchers; those similarities are "a kind of validity." Page 135 -- "if our findings were being repeated across various sources on dealing with AIDS as well as other terminal illnesses, then we must be on the right track."
ReplyDeleteIn chapter 12 (p 127) Patti writes: "Methodologically grounded in qualitative/ethnographic and feminist poststructural research in the human sciences, this project enacts an interest in what it means to tell the lives of others."
ReplyDeleteHere she touches on the interpretive (tell the lives of others), the critical (feminist), and post (poststructural) paradigms. They are definitely all represented in various ways in this text.
In regard to additional readings, should we mention that the information in the text is dated? Presenting current sources of statistical, medical, and narrative info?
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