Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Discursive Psychology Blog Post 7.30.13


Questions for Elizabeth
  • ·How did you get access to IEP meetings within school districts?  Did you have prior relationships and connections?
  • ·         Why 20?  Why 7/7? (what were your final numbers?)
  • ·         How did your timeline for completion compare to what actually occurred?
  • ·         How did keeping a reflexive journal and meeting with the DART team influence your work and this study? Did they “push back” against your understandings as you had hoped?
  • ·         You said in class that it didn’t feel right to you (didn’t feel DPish) to do a comparison of groups.  Did you do that comparison, and if so, are you pleased you constructed the study in this manner?


Questions for Joshua

  • ·         Can you talk a bit about transcription of a group interaction?  I have only transcribed one to one interviews and imagine that trying to capture group dynamics is very complex.
  • ·         Did you keep a reflexive journal or interact with others to analyze your data (like the DART team Elizabeth talks about)?
  • ·         How do you think you did with staying away from the “common failures” of discourse analysis – summarizing, taking sides, over or under quoting, reasoning circularly, attributing membership categories, spotting features?
  • ·         Your position in the group was interesting.  What did you find out about your own interactions and discourse?
  • ·         You talked about the teacher’s different characterizations/labeling of themselves (and expecting that to be focal for the participants) – language arts teachers, English teachers etc. – was that relevant in your study?  To your participants.


Questions for either/both:

  • ·         How do you decide when to use Jeffersonian transcription?  After you have become familiar with the findings and are beginning to determine what is most salient?

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for the great questions - should be a great discussion tonight.

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