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Madlenka's block gets mentioned again, this time only in passing, and the city-block is transformed into a geometric cube where different aspects of a researcher's observation occurs between opposing faces. So time and schedule, place and space, people and participants all occupy a position within this cased-out cube. The two classroom examples show the data inside, yet the world outside this cube also has influence.
— Feb 04, 2014 11:10PM
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Kyle
is on page 131 of 160
Finishing off just under 150 page guidebook on case study methodology with advice about generalizations seems a bit cheeky, as if the warning becomes a blunt reminder of what researchers should try to avoid yet almost seems to be the whole purpose of collecting data: to generalize about what goes on at a certain location with specific practices and circumstances. Celia and Anne blur the boundaries of study and hobby.
— Feb 09, 2014 02:58PM
Kyle
is on page 111 of 160
The author re-case their outline of the research method by describing a room scattered with books, videotape and piles of field notes, all to indicate that the researcher must weave all the diverse threads of data. The whole purpose of a case study is to present unit of analyses as a worthwhile knot of information that can be untangled with helpful commentary notes and somehow resisted tying off with a narrative bow.
— Feb 08, 2014 05:38PM
Kyle
is on page 78 of 160
Not only are the case study neophytes back on Madlenka's block, but high in the sky above, where we are continually told about "the house for GOd" as reported by co-author Anne Dyson. This report conversation already made an appearance in her (2004) Diversity as a “handful”: Toward retheorizing the basics. Research in the Teaching of English 39(2) and I suspected numerous other articles, maybe video too.
— Feb 07, 2014 04:54PM
Kyle
is on page 59 of 160
Reducing the large, amorphous case study site from a block to a "two inches wide" bit of ivory for the researcher to polish and refine, as Jane Austen once described crafting her novels. The details get worked out in minute, usually a folder full of papers, before the video camera start taping, but unlike the dispassionate eye the researcher will stand behind, with case study's researcher will get to design her role.
— Feb 05, 2014 09:35PM
Kyle
is on page 18 of 160
The game's a-foot learning how to conduct a case study, and the introduction sets up a few of the advantages along with well-advised caution. I was still surprised, however, to find so much of this chapter concerns a fictional child's loose tooth and suspect this is not the end of Peter Sis' Madlenka. What I hope to discover instead is inspiration to get started on case study or two by the end of this month.
— Feb 01, 2014 09:21PM
