Just saw this today – bit behind on reading but addresses the role of research in tenure and promotion and supports a flexible workload concept. Different Paths to Full Professor March 5, 2010 Last month, E. Gordon Gee mentioned to the Associated Press that he thought it was time to reconsider the way tenure...
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Quotes and Notes: Atkinson (2007)
Atkinson, R. (2007). The life story interview as a bridge in narrative inquiry. In D. J. Clandinin (Ed.), Handbook of narrative inquiry: Mapping a methodology (pp. 224-245). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc. Two uses of life story include: ideographic, or the use of...
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Memo: Narrative Wars
I just sent a draft of a paper to my advisor/co-author. I feel as though the weight of the world has been lifted from my shoulders, if only for a brief time. I’ve been struggling with this for months – at first only in...
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Quotes and Notes: Bullough & Pinnegar (2001)
Bullough, R.V., & Pinnegar, S. (2001, April). Guidelines for quality in autobiographical forms of self-study research. Educational Researcher, 30(3), 13-21. The authors discuss the four conditions from which “self-study”...
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Quotes and Notes: Clandinin and Connelly – Chapt. 8 (2000)
Clandinin, D.J., & Connelly, F.M. (2000). From field texts to research texts: Making meaning of experience. In Narrative inquiry: Experience and story in qualitative research (pp. 119-137). San Francisco,...
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Pooling Thoughts
Curriculum Theory: Autobiographical and Biographical Influences The essential nature of autobiography and its connection to curriculum then is that our pedagogical practice is informed by four things: voice,...
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