I was presenting Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at a conference, but I had a writing retreat on Sunday for 5 hours with one of my writing partners, and kicked off a new project we are presenting at a qualitative conference in Manchester this July. Basically, we are using a very detailed case study of one teacher's practice from my dissertation (about 50 pages of text) to "think with" two different theories to see how it might open up thinking about teaching practice in different ways (e.g., a methodology of 'diffraction'). We got about 1/4 of the data analyzed and memoed and had extremely productive conversations about the thinking produced by our analysis. We also created methodological memos about our theoretically-driven analytic process, which we are trying to experiment with while putting "thought before method".
Sounds very productive Katie. Like you Vanessa, I'm "slogging" through some material - feels slow - reading and abstracting secondary sources - but it's got to get done! Spent yesterday early a.m. (7-7:30) on it.
I wrote and worked on research for my writing over the weekend. I outlined 3 different articles based on my dissertation. On Monday, I began working on one article. After hearing from an editor of a journal I want to publish in and reading the literature, I realized that I needed to analyze a different set of data which is my goal for this week.
I was presenting Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at a conference, but I had a writing retreat on Sunday for 5 hours with one of my writing partners, and kicked off a new project we are presenting at a qualitative conference in Manchester this July. Basically, we are using a very detailed case study of one teacher's practice from my dissertation (about 50 pages of text) to "think with" two different theories to see how it might open up thinking about teaching practice in different ways (e.g., a methodology of 'diffraction'). We got about 1/4 of the data analyzed and memoed and had extremely productive conversations about the thinking produced by our analysis. We also created methodological memos about our theoretically-driven analytic process, which we are trying to experiment with while putting "thought before method".
ReplyDeleteWow, that's fantastic! I had so much fun writing the paper using four theories to look at one piece of data--I think it's such a productive exercise.
DeleteCongrats Katie. I was consistent this weekend. Slogging through papers to add details to my revised discussion.
ReplyDeletePutting in my writing for Tuesday. Trying to be consistent in my 25 minutes in the AM, then the day doesn't get in my way!
ReplyDeleteSounds very productive Katie. Like you Vanessa, I'm "slogging" through some material - feels slow - reading and abstracting secondary sources - but it's got to get done! Spent yesterday early a.m. (7-7:30) on it.
ReplyDeleteI wrote and worked on research for my writing over the weekend. I outlined 3 different articles based on my dissertation. On Monday, I began working on one article. After hearing from an editor of a journal I want to publish in and reading the literature, I realized that I needed to analyze a different set of data which is my goal for this week.
ReplyDeleteWow, that's some major progress Mari--big conceptual stuff
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