Lauren and Michael presented on interviews, and Krystina and Courtney presented on ethnography. Good job. For each presentation I raised questions to make sure you were examining the assumptions that lay beneath the research. What was the nature of "truth"? What was the relationship between researcher and subject(s)? What did the researcher assume about the way the world worked? What were the researcher's values?
We finished class with some practice interviewing - and I strongly suggested that if you do interviewing - that you do some practicing before collecting the data for your project.
For next week:
Read: "I didn't do anything important," The Oral History Review 36.1 2009, available through Kean University data bases; Summerfield in Griffin
Blog 10: Research project writing
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