When I grow up, I want to write like write like Allison Pryer. When I read a piece of writing that is of such high quality, I find it hard not comment on it. In Imagining Educational Research? On…
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Commentary Number Eight
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Commentary Eight Avoid the Straightjacket In the article “Imagining Educational Research? On the Uses of Fiction in Autobiographical Narrative Inquiry,” Allison Pryer makes the point that the use of the “memoir,” as an educational tool, is valid. She gives good…
Commentary # 9 Pryor
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“Imagining Educational Research? On the Uses of Fiction in Autobiographical Narrative Inquiry” Author Allison Pryor Commentary # 9 As with any good scientific research, ethnography should be untainted by any sense of the emotional. The feelings of the subject and…
Commentary #8
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Adam Russell The Responsibility of the Writer When I first read Pryer’s article, I lamented the fact that I did not have it as a powerful ally to back up the claims I made for the midterm. However, the closer I read,…
Can Old Dogs Learn New Tricks?
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Tina Bell English 5870 28 April 2009 Commentary 8 “There is an assumption that if an ethnographic account is engaging, it cannot be scientific” (Sunstein 192). The argument as to what constitutes scientific research brought up in Sunstein’s article is…
Journal #8- Pryer
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Joel Manfredi English 5870 Dr. De Vries Journal #8 In reading “Imagining Educational Research? on the Uses of Fiction in Autobiographical Narrative Inquiry” by Allison Pryer, I again found myself agreeing with most of what she said in…
Class Log from April 21–Foucault Discussion
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Class Log Tuesday April 21, 2009 Reading: Michael Foucault “Panopticism” Logged by Keri Ortiz Assignment Update -From Dr. DeVries: Select 4 commentaries to be read and commented on by Dr. DeVries. Everyone should have received feedback on at least one…
Commentary #7
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Adam Russell The Panopticon in the Classroom When talking about Foucalut and the prison structure of the panopticon, we see it as an apt metaphor for the way people regulate behavior in society. As James put it in class…
Foucault
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Joel Manfredi Journal Entry “Panopticon” Dr. De Vries English 5870 In reading Michel Foucault’s “Panopticism,” I get a strong sense of the type of discipline that most teachers are looking for in their classrooms. It is, that…
Commentary Week Ten
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Mike Calou Commentary Week Ten Panopticism The reading this week reminds me of the power structure within the classroom. Using Foucault’s analysis of Jeremy Bentham’s 1785 panopticon model the tower represents the teacher. The principle of visible and verifiable power,…