Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetChris, this exhibit left me absolutely breathless. It was like coming over a hill and seeing a landscape ahead that was unexpected and completely engaging. In a museum with priceless works of art, the brilliance of those who put this together and had the mourners walk toward us, with the opportunity to walk around them, as they seemingly continued on with their tasks . . .
Your insight makes me wonder about our electronic world. I know I am engaged nearly full-time on technology-related tasks that, with the flick of a switch, would leave me with little trace of my life. Alas, to be more in touch with the world in which we move and breathe and have our being.
Thank you for sharing.
Jeffrey
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetStephanie-
Aalborg, too! Small world, isn’t it?
A colleague of mine in the Netherlands is planning to discuss a few articles on Communities of Practice, and this text is the next one on the list to read and discuss. Wonder about the logistics of having a book discussion on a blog? Glad to host it here, especially with the threaded comments I implemented. You open for it if we begin in a month or so?
Jeffrey
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetSteph, it is wonderful to see you struggling with some of these responses; it is not an easy job to quickly answer something that can be perceived differently on many levels.
In many ways, your writing reminds me of the magazine the New Yorker, where everything in it is detailed, expansive, and quite thought out (with an eye toward encouraging intereaction and discussion).
Jeffrey
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetSteph, when you stated above:
“The tension that action research taps derives from fairly modest claims: that meaning is co-constructed in interaction, and that the meaningfulness of interaction (especially at the microsocial level) is malleable by human consciousness,”
do you mean that this is the way that action research is used, or that this social form of learning is in fact a required component of learning?
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetVery interesting article; thank you for sharing it.
Jeffrey
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetSuzanne, this seems like a wonderful course you are creating. Would love to take (or teach!) it.
As you continue to develop this, will you also share some of the resources you are considering using as a reference or required reading list? Doing this may help others struggling through the same issue (thus building community), as well as gain some feedback from others who may be able to add to the recommendations.
Jeffrey
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetSuazanne, this also sounds like a wonderful class!
Question; as this course seems to be oriented toward a qualitative (deconstructive)analysis, why have you chosen to limit the external sources of information "data from traditional quantitative studies, literature, mainstream media, websites, blogs, and social media" without including qualitative studies or papes from online reviewed journals (which seem to be more cutting-edge than the more traditional peer-reviewed sources?
Jeffrey
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetLeigh, I struggle with this as well, more from the perspective of being able to cite materials in open access journals rather than publishing there (my next step!).
You did get me to start thinking more about the issue of linking research to practice, when you said, "I would like to know their response to the growing evidence that these outlets are extremely inaccessible, increasingly irrelevant to those who can't be bothered even trying to access them, and perhaps even corrupt in their peer review and profit taking!" I can't help but wonder to what extent those people who need access to this evidence / research already have it, and the rest of the mass of humanity just does not care about it (especially given that so much peer-reviewed research is somewhat unrelated to problems, issues, or concerns in practice).
Jeffrey
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetI tend to wonder why higher education is always so slow to adapt, especially with such bright minds doing interesting research.
Perhaps the answers lies in a reward system with a WIIFM (What's In It For Me?) that has not adapted in hundreds of years? Then again, what is in it for me as an adjunct faculty member to change, either (saying rhetorically and sarcastically)??
Jeffrey
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetHmm, perhaps Wordle like you better!
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetThank you, Arjun. Appreciate your words of encouragement and support!
Jeffrey
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetThank you, Arjun. Appreciate your having a look at my work and offer words of encouragement. Hope to catch up with you at some point.
Jeffrey
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetAnne Marie, thank you for visiting and for asking this question (one which I had not previously considered).
Indeed, a number of people I interviewed for this project told me that they did not wish to remain anonymous, though we did not have a conversation about publishing the audio interviews, nor the transcripts. Lesson for the future to ask about this. I can only guess that they do not mind being linked with the findings, though I will not presume that they would (or would not) want everything from our exchange to be public. As that will significantly go beyond the ethical approval I received (and which I discussed with each participant), I think this may be a question to raise with everybody on another day (especially after I finish this paper itself!).
Thank you again for raising an issue that helps me to further push the boundaries of research.
Jeffrey
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetSarah, these are great slides -- use images to tell / support your message, rather than endless text.
I only wish I could hear what you said during each one!
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetHelen, now that we are chatting a bit, I wanted to comment on this posting before we get too far away from it.
I think this is a fascinating Wordle idea. Did you include everything you have written, or just the writing toward your thesis (dissertation?)?
How did you filter out the more common words (the, a, for, etc.), so they did not show up with any great prominence?
Thank you.
Jeffrey
