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Link is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Pt3b1PH1w&feature=related
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I talked about retrospective sense making, defined by “people act first and later examine
their actions in an attempt to explain their meaning.” Illustrated in an article on parents
realizing (later) that their children were gay here:
http://jfi.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/27/6/777
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Theoretical underpinnings The logic, grounding for ways of accessing knowledge and
interpreting what is observed.
Image from here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_looking_glass_self.png
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Symbolic Interactionism Theory: attributed to George Herbert Mead. More here:
http://www.iep.utm.edu/mead/
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A bit more info here: http://www.transparencynow.com/news/schemastories.htm
Photo is owned by me!
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Thanks to Daniel Chandler for the idea and lots more information about how we see and
interpret the world here: http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Modules/MC10220/visindex.html
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Once we know what to look for – upsidedownness – it’s easier to figure out what it is.
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More about interviews as conversation in this relatively accessible article: R. and
Widdicombe, S. Interaction in interviews. Talk and interaction in social research methods,
(2006), 28–49.
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Find classes on ethnographic methods in Communication, Sociology, Anthropology,
Education, Fine Arts, and more. Interesting reading about “rapid ethnography” in
information studies here: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~i385e/readings/Millen.pdf
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Overview of learning environment in this article: Hiemstra, R. Aspects of effective learning
environments. New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education 1991, 50 (1991), 5-12.
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Biggie Rat. Find out more about this marginalized cartoon character here:
http://02varvara.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/king-leonardo-and-itchybrother%E2%80%A6-a-fable-for-our-time/
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Find out more about judging the credibility of qualitative studies here:
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~mid/edr725/class/makingsense/credibility/reading5-3-1.html
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