This week I had attended the 22nd Annual Ethnographic & Qualitative Research Conference, which is why my post is a few days late. The conference has me reflecting on many areas of research and publication such as generalizabilty, limitations, and the intersection of theory and research. I definitely have my wheels turning about future research […]
Read More...Last week Dusty was sharing her reflections on educators conducting action research and likened it to the “collective centering, pulling, and shaping of clay” and I love that image. It led me to think about the word “collective” in her phrase. A friend of mine, an educational researcher, told me that she began conducting classroom […]
Read More...Think about the person who did the most to mentor you. What three words would you use to describe this individual? This is the question I asked the participants in last week’s Teaching Research Ethics workshop to consider. Then I asked them to write down these three words on post-it notes and we collected all […]
Read More...I spend quite a bit of my free time covered in mud. Several times a week I head to a pottery studio where I make all manner of vessels for mostly practical purposes. Because I tend to think about things in images or pictures– I’ve included a picture of me and one of my daughters […]
Read More...Having completed my dissertation and graduating in June, naturally I am looking at what is next for me in my life journey. I admit, I have no idea what lays before me. I have searched for some glimmer of the future but never seem to have a clear picture. Times like this, I often […]
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