Re: weather/climate::individual/social

Judy Diamondstone (diamonju who-is-at rci.rutgers.edu)
Sat, 20 Apr 1996 18:54:11 -0400

Gordon, thanks for the zoom lens metaphor. I wonder if the camera
you imagine might be approximated by enlisting students & teacher
from a target classroom in ethnography on their own home & community
literacy practices & enlisting a bunch of graduate students in
videotaping different aspects of the classroom, with everyone keeping
reflective journals during data gathering to establish who chooses to
focus on what & why that... to keep a record of presumably changing
researcher influences.... School and school district documents would
help to establish institutional constraints.... Inasmuch as the curriculum
is genre-specific, I would add existing research literature on relevant
practices; David Russell & Chuck Bazerman and other students of genre could
devise a sharper mapping of the sites to focus on at different time depths....

Could you send me the results of your study? -:)

- Judy

Judy Diamondstone
Graduate School of Education
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
10 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08903

diamonju who-is-at rci.rutgers.edu
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