diane celia hodges wrote:
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> Ricardo -
>
> how eloquent. thank you so mcuh for your thoughts.
> . My personal dilemma, regarding "who has the ultimate authority" over the
> process,
>
> is enmeshed in methodology, and the construct of "rigour."
>
> (ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE)
> Years ago, a colleague wrote her MA(in social work) on surviving sexual
> abuse. Her thesis was an intricate blend of personal memories, artistic
> depictions, processual drawings, and theory explaining the personal work
> and the generalized phenomenon of sexual abuse..
> As she pursued this theiss, committee members dropped off left and right,
> claiming it was not legitiamte research. This woman included those letters
> in her
> thesis, as part of the depiction of a "process" of knowledge. The thesis
> was never, to my knowledge,
> published, although the woman graduated.
>
> ,
> How much blood, man[sic] ?
>
> how much blood.
> diane
>
> "Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right." Ani Difranco
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> diane celia hodges
> faculty of education, centre for the study of curriculum and
> instruction,
> university of british columbia
> vancouver, bc canada
>
> snailmail: 3519 Hull Street
> Vancouver, BC, Canada V5N 4R8
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