This is Marcia. I read Creswell, the book really details the branches of Qualitative research. Initially, I labeled myself as a postpositivist. Creswell(2007), claimed that "postpositivist imposes structural laws and theories that do not fit marginalized individualized or groups..."p. 21 So, I need to rethink...Who am I as a researcher? At the moment, the Advocacy/participatory category seems to address my interest as a researcher:
1. It focused on the needs/concerns of marginalized groups.
2. It provides a voice to this group.
3. It serves as an agent of emancipation.
The question is --How can I fit this into my research or interest?
Marcia, It looks like we're both focusing in on the issue of bias, and I think it's an important question for researchers. But I guess I am not really thinking of bias as "positive" or "negative" but as a filter/lens that shapes all the gray areas in between as well. I think we have to be aware that bias will shape all the decisions we make and all the conclusions we draw. We can't escape seeing our research through our own eyes, through our own lens of experience.
PS. I am having a difficult time posting my blog as an author on our wiki page(I could only post items in the comment sector of this blog. In class we need to discuss the proper procedures on how to work out the kinks. --I got a new account with google.com the whole nine yards. Jeta. I email, Dr. Turner, and stress to her that my comments(should be posted as an author)--and she needs to look in the comment section to find my work.
Back to the research item, Jeta
Your research project seems interesting but I have a few questions:
Have you clearly defined code-switching as it relates to Afro-American???? because some people may get the wrong idea about your study
Also, What's you purpose for this research and what approach will you introduce?
I find a few resources that may help:
"Taylor (1983) is rightly critical of the tendency of researchers such as Dillard to associate BE with poor uneducated African-Americans and associate SE with middle-class blacks. To avoid the consequence of an excessively narrow definition of BE, i.e. of excluding middle-class blacks from the community of BE speakers, Taylor proposes a 'comprehensive' definition of BE as consisting of 'the totality of language used in the black community'."
"In Taylor's definition, standard and nonstandard forms of language are components of the 'totality' which is Black English. Without resorting to what Dillard calls 'ethnic slang', an educated, middle-class black person may express his or her identification with African-American culture, free of the stigma attached to nonstandard speech, through the use of what Taylor calls 'Standard Black English'. While Taylor's definition nicely accommodates the diversity of language phenomena that exist within the rubric of African-American culture, it is not clear how it would handle the particular phenomenon of codeswitching."
Web address www.muohio.edu/.../codeswitching.htm - Codeswitching: Black English and Standard English in the African-American Linguistic Repertoire Charles E. DeBose(2001) Department of English, California State University, Hayward, California, USA
Hi Jeta and Chris
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Marcia
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Hi Jeta and Christy,
ReplyDeleteThis is Marcia. I read Creswell, the book really details the branches of Qualitative research. Initially, I labeled myself as a postpositivist. Creswell(2007), claimed that "postpositivist imposes structural laws and theories that do not fit marginalized individualized or groups..."p. 21 So, I need to rethink...Who am I as a researcher?
At the moment, the Advocacy/participatory category seems to address my interest as a researcher:
1. It focused on the needs/concerns of marginalized groups.
2. It provides a voice to this group.
3. It serves as an agent of emancipation.
The question is --How can I fit this into my research or interest?
PS. Christy, what do you have to say?
Marcia
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ReplyDeleteJeta and Christy,
ReplyDeleteMaybe we could discuss the different approaches in class or on the blog--time will soon run out and we need to really develop our think tank.
In the next few weeks, we should have the following outline:
1. Statement of the problem
2. Purpose for the study
3. A solid research question that fits the model(qualitative design)?
4. Literature review that addresses the issue
(a few to get started 5 to 7)
Marcia,
ReplyDeleteIt looks like we're both focusing in on the issue of bias, and I think it's an important question for researchers. But I guess I am not really thinking of bias as "positive" or "negative" but as a filter/lens that shapes all the gray areas in between as well. I think we have to be aware that bias will shape all the decisions we make and all the conclusions we draw. We can't escape seeing our research through our own eyes, through our own lens of experience.
--Jeta
p.s. I sent an invitation to you to join the blog as an author a week or so ago. That should allow you to post blog posts rather than just comments.
ReplyDeleteHi Jeta,
ReplyDeletePS. I am having a difficult time posting my blog as an author on our wiki page(I could only post items in the comment sector of this blog. In class we need to discuss the proper procedures on how to work out the kinks. --I got a new account with google.com the whole nine yards. Jeta. I email, Dr. Turner, and stress to her that my comments(should be posted as an author)--and she needs to look in the comment section to find my work.
Back to the research item, Jeta
Your research project seems interesting but I have a few questions:
Have you clearly defined code-switching as it relates to Afro-American???? because some people may get the wrong idea about your study
Also, What's you purpose for this research and what approach will you introduce?
I find a few resources that may help:
"Taylor (1983) is rightly critical of the tendency of researchers such as Dillard to associate BE with poor uneducated African-Americans and associate SE with middle-class blacks. To avoid the consequence of an excessively narrow definition of BE, i.e. of excluding middle-class blacks from the community of BE speakers, Taylor proposes a 'comprehensive' definition of BE as consisting of 'the totality of language used in the black community'."
"In Taylor's definition, standard and nonstandard forms of language are components of the 'totality' which is Black English. Without resorting to what Dillard calls 'ethnic slang', an educated, middle-class black person may express his or her identification with African-American culture, free of the stigma attached to nonstandard speech, through the use of what Taylor calls 'Standard Black English'. While Taylor's definition nicely accommodates the diversity of language phenomena that exist within the rubric of African-American culture, it is not clear how it would handle the particular phenomenon of codeswitching."
Web address
www.muohio.edu/.../codeswitching.htm -
Codeswitching: Black English and Standard English in the African-American Linguistic Repertoire Charles E. DeBose(2001)
Department of English, California State University, Hayward, California, USA
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