I am glad to read these questions and look forward to seeing other
responses and questions.
My research is turning toward auto-ethnography as a way to portray the
intersection of culture and the individual. My most recent paper describes
how I caught myself reproducing the cultural construct of gender as I
observed a group of children interacting around the computer center in a
second grade classroom.
I can't remember who said that social science research is more of a
reflection of the researcher's identity than any clear vision of the
object(s) of study, but isn't that only bringing the self-indulgence of
the researcher out into the open?
How is one activity that benefits me an indulgence while another is
science? Or should we consider the papal overtones of the word indulgence
as forgiveness. Am I working on forgiving myself for reproducing the
culture of oppression that I fear and hate?
kathie
(please forgive this foray into self-indulgence)
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Life's backwards,
Life's backwards,
People, turn around.
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Katherine_Goff who-is-at ceo.cudenver.edu
http://ceo.cudenver.edu/~Katherine_Goff/index.html