Posted in Readings on Jan 27th, 2008 No Comments »
“A professional notebook is a record of what you observe, hear, overhear, think about, wonder about, and worry about that connects your personal life to your personal one” writes Goodall (p. 88).
I have started keeping a researcher’s notebook that contains both personal and professional reflections to see how they overlap. I like the idea, but [...]
Posted in Readings on Oct 6th, 2007 No Comments »
This week I have been reading Writing the New Ethnography by H. L. Goodall, Jr. (2000, AltaMira Press). I purchased this book in the spring of 2003 while I was writing my ethnographic-portraiture dissertation. I picked the book up again this fall, four years later, when I began teaching Introduction to Qualitative Inquiry and wanted [...]
Posted in Readings on Sep 17th, 2007 No Comments »
This Monday in September brings morning rain and adds a blush of autumn color to the Ash tree’s leaves outside my window. Today I am thinking about Laurel Richardson and Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre’s chapter: Writing: A method of inquiry. In N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of qualitative research (pp. 959-978. [...]
