scholarly journals Debriefing the Interpretive Researcher: Spider Sniffing with Critical Friend

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Williams ◽  
Reese Todd
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Final Phase ◽  
Safe Place ◽  
Dissertation Writing ◽  
Self Study ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Dissertation Defense ◽  
Critical Friend

This auto-ethnographic study describes a practical application of qualitative research skills in an intensive writing retreat. The retreat was held in response to an inadequate dissertation defense just three weeks before final university deadline for graduation. It uses narrative and double- storytelling to step in and out of the experience of a debriefing process that put the writer in a vulnerable position with a critical friend. The reality of not completing the PhD demanded aggressive and immediate action – an intense commitment to critical analysis of the dissertation. The reflective self-study of the writing retreat experience describes the significance of a critical friend, a safe place, commitment to task, trust, respect, and risk-taking that resulted in an approved dissertation and completed degree program. The unconventional action encourages exploration of alternative approaches for both doctoral committees and students struggling with the final phase of dissertation writing. Insights on collaboration and reflection are shown in the analogy with the playful spider sniffing activity.

scholarly journals Combining Cultural Anthropology and Gerontology

GeroPsych ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anamaria Depner
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
And Migration

Abstract. One of the central objectives of gerontology is to provide categories and criteria for practical application. In contrast, cultural anthropology describes and interprets processes observed in various practical contexts but does not aim to create practical applications. For concepts such as “culture,” this discrepancy in goals might be the source of misunderstandings and even conflicting definitions. Bringing together the perspectives of both disciplines on culture, this paper illustrates the pitfalls of an understanding of culture grounded in geographical origins. It focuses on the situation in Germany and thereby addresses a universal problem using certain conceptions of culture in the context of aging and migration. In conclusion, it presents alternative approaches, while also addressing methodological issues.

scholarly journals Finding Our Way Through a Pandemic: Teaching in Alternate Modes of Delivery

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward R. Howe ◽  
Georgann Cope Watson
Keyword(s):  
Work Group ◽  
Course Evaluation ◽  
Google Docs ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Group Activities ◽  
Self Study ◽  
Face To Face Learning ◽  
The Many ◽  
Space Data ◽  
Critical Friend

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a dramatic pivot to online learning and has forced teachers to critically re-evaluate teaching strategies. Thus, the questions, framing this self-study were: 1) How will I be able to do the learning activities I normally do in the classroom online including individual work, group activities, debates, and whole class discussions? and 2) How will I be able to pivot my signature lessons to the alternate delivery model? This self-study of teaching and teacher education practices (S-STTEP) builds on previous research to transform traditional face-to-face lessons into effective online lessons using alternate modes of delivery. In this paper, Ted shares some of his signature lessons including ice-breakers, critical response questions, discussions, group activities, and jigsaws, utilizing Moodle, Big Blue Button, Padlet, Google Docs, and other online tools. With Georgann’s help as a critical friend, Ted critically analyzed his teaching of Master of Education graduate students through S-STTEP. In addition, he explored comparative ethnographic narrative (CEN) as another way of knowing within the S-STTEP space. Data included detailed weekly reflections. In addition, students provided written feedback at the end of each class, and at the end of term through a survey and course evaluation. Ted shared weekly electronic journal reflections and student feedback with Georgann, via email and teleconferences. Then, together Ted and Georgann made meaning from these field texts. The research text evolved from teacher-to-teacher conversations. Promising pedagogies for synchronous and face to face learning were identified with several signature lessons the focus. Georgann, as Ted’s critical friend helped confirm and verify the most significant results amongst the many interesting reflections made.

scholarly journals DESENHO AVALIATIVO POR RUBRICAS EM DISCIPLINA MULTICURSO: ANÁLISE DE UMA IMPLEMENTAÇÃO PILOTO

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Leandro Blass ◽  
Valesca Brasil Irala
Keyword(s):  
Critical Friends ◽  
Self Study ◽  
Critical Friend

Neste trabalho, analisamos o design e a implementação de rubricas de avaliação (Brookhart, 2013; Howell,2014) na disciplina de graduação de Cálculo Numérico. A metodologia é qualitativa, a partir da perspectiva do self-study, pautada pela estratégia do critical friend (Cornejo, 2016; Sandretto, 2016; Schuck & Russell, 2016; Butler et al., 2011). Como resultado, apresentamos as quatro rubricas desenvolvidas e implementadas e suas implicações de natureza situada; depois, discutimos em que proporção se mostraram válidas para atender as demandas do professor, bem como vislumbramos novas reflexões em relação ao processo avaliativo, a fim de qualificá-lo. Como conclusão, validamos a reflexão fundamentada e a ação baseada em reflexão para conduzir (re)configurações no plano micro (a sala de aula), podendo repercutir, a médio e longo prazo, em alterações nos planos meso e macro.  Também, buscamos contribuir para o desenvolvimento de pesquisas que utilizem a estratégia do critical friends na  formação continuada no Ensino Superior.

scholarly journals Managing Mosques in the Netherlands

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oskar Verkaaik ◽  
Pooyan Tamimi Arab
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Religious Minorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Call To Prayer

This article engages with the emergent ethnographical study of secular practice by focusing on how local bureaucracies manage the Muslim public presence in the Netherlands, particularly the construction of new mosques and the amplifying of the Muslim call to prayer. We argue that what started as the ‘Islam debate’, itself provoked by growing populist articulations of the fear of Islam, has gradually developed into a conflict in the practice of local governance about the meaning of secularism. Whereas the public and political debate about mosque issues is often dominated by what we call a ‘culturalist’ or ‘nativist’ form of secularism, in practice bureaucrats are often led by a ‘constitutional secularism’ that protects the constitutional rights of Dutch Muslims. Thus, in its practical application, constitutional secularism is one way of tackling Islamophobia and protecting the rights of religious minorities in general. Moving beyond the genealogical study and the deconstructivist critique of secularism by such authors as Talal Asad and Wendy Brown, we show that the ethnographic study of actual secular practice remains crucially important to avoiding monolithic text-based understandings of the secular as inherently dominating the religious.

CARVER+Shock method and its application in a catering company in Poland

2017 ◽  
Vol 119 (12) ◽  
pp. 2610-2629
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Wiśniewska
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Final Phase ◽  
Content Type ◽  
First Case ◽  
The Subject

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the practical implementation of the CARVER+Shock (CS) method and describe the following steps of vulnerability assessment on the basis of a catering company, and to confirm that it can be successfully applied by the restaurant for better preparation regarding potential, intentional contamination. Design/methodology/approach The research method is a case study, including examining the company’s documentation and the interview with the company owner. The analysis refers to the following seven attributes: criticality, accessibility, recuperability, vulnerability, effect, recognizability and shock. Findings The practical application of CS method in company allows indicating the most vulnerable phases of the catering process. The values of “recuperability,” “effect” and “shock” are increasing along with the development of the catering process. The lowest risk of threat is observed at the first phases of the catering process, and the most risky were those connected with the preliminary consumption phase and with the final phase, which is arranged in the place of the event. The attributes “recognizability” and “effect” have the greatest influence on the outcome. The closer the food gets to the consumer, the higher is the risk of intentional contamination, and the harder it is to reverse its effects. Originality/value In the scientific literature, there is a gap observed in the subject of applying the CS method. This is the first case study presentation referring to its application in catering processes in Poland.

scholarly journals Trust, Risk and Public History: A View from the United States

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 52-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
James B. Gardner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Public History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Risk Averse ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
Safe Place ◽  
The Public ◽  
Difference Of Opinion

In the public history and museum communities today there is much difference of opinion over the concept of ‘radical trust,’ which basically argues for us to give up control and trust the public to develop content for our websites and exhibitions and provide direction for our work. Most public historians and curators are happy to share authority with the public, but are we now expected to yield all authority? Are we now taking historian Carl Becker’s well-known phrase ‘everyman his own historian’ and updating it to ‘every person his or her own curator’? What is the role of historical knowledge in a world of opinion? Unfortunately, at the same time that many of us are embracing risk online, in a world we have little control or even influence over, we seem to be stepping back from risk taking in our museums, on our own turf. We’ve become risk averse—afraid to make mistakes, afraid of trying new approaches and tackling the historically controversial or the ambiguous. Rather than the ‘safe place for unsafe ideas’ that Elaine Gurian proposed, we have become no more than safe places for safe ideas. We need to push back on both fronts. Public historians should be thought leaders, not followers—not wait to see what the future holds for us but rather try to shape that future.

scholarly journals Wiser Together: Sustaining Teaching Excellence With a Self-Study/Critical Friend

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-32
Author(s):  
Tracy W. Smith ◽  
Leslie U. Bradbury
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Excellence ◽  
Self Study ◽  
Critical Friend
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