“Still-Life: Representations and Silences in the Participant Observer Role” Brenda Jo Bruggemann This article presented an interesting and negative approach to ethnographic research. I use the word negative because the researcher seems dissatisfied with her work even though it…
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Brueggemann Commentary #3
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Maria Shreve Dr. DeVries English 5870 March 10, 2009 After reading “Stiff-Life Representations and Silences in the Participant-Observer Role” by Brenda Joe Brueggeman, I was surprised at how the essay pulled at my heartstrings, so to speak, particularly…
Commentary #3
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Joel Manfredi Dr. Kim De Vries English 5870 Commentary #3 In reading Brueggemann’s article, I really felt a sense of her struggle as she came to some sort of consensus not only of her subjects, but of herself…
Wk 3/CM#2
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Adam Russell Professor DeVries English 5870 1 May 2009 Week #3/Commentary #2 The Distribution of Power in the Classroom The successful teacher understands that the learning process is something that never ends. However, a power relationship should exist…
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Ruth Ray is optimistic about “the influence of teacher research on education” (187). I like Keri and others am surprised that teacher research is a new movement. However, I am learning that ‘new’ ideas in the world of education are…
Commentary 2
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Ruth Ray focuses on the context of the classroom and the community when talking about effective teacher research. University research that deals in mass generalizations and standardized testing does little to help in teaching students. The main reason for this…
Commentary #2 — Ruth Ray
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“Compositions from the Teacher-Research Point of View” by Ruth Ray I found that Ray’s article suggests that teacher research is looked down upon by the currently accepted field of university researchers. Why? I offer that the ruling ideology has to…
5870 Commentary #2Ray
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Commentary #2 “Compositions from the Teacher-Research Point of View” Ruth Ray In our last reading we learned that to be an ethnographic researcher, an observer had the following two possibilities for approaching the target group. One option has the researchers…
Commentary 2
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As an active consultant for the Great Valley Writing Project and the National Writing Project, I will not hesitate to say that for me Ruth Ray’s article is like “the shot heard around the world.” It is time for teachers…
Ray- Commentary Week 3
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Maria Shreve English 5870 Dr. DeVries March 3, 2008 Up until this class, I really haven’t thought about teacher-research, per se. While I was getting my teaching credential years ago, we did observations, but the observations were more…