Hey guys, hey guys, ... you drive me crazy. Has anyone of you heard about
"going native?"
With warmest feelings,
Lubomir
At 12:17 PM 8/23/2001 -0500, Maria Fernanda Camacho wrote:
>As somebody who was born and brought up in a developing country, but who
>has had
>the opportunity to closely learn about various other more and less developed
>situations in relation to design, I SO agree with Richard in what he has just
>said. I can't understand how anyone can conduct a thesis about something
>happening
>in a context they have never experienced for themselves ( I many times
>hear people
>in USA or Europe say so many things about Latin America with such
>certainty but...
>they've never being here, and I can obviously tell, cause what some say
>doesn't
>make any sense to me in my context). I have had to realise this for
>myself, and I
>didn't use to think the same way before being exposed to the various realities
>involved.
>
>Maria Camacho
>
>
>
>Richard Buchanan wrote:
>
> > Rosan,
> >
> > I don't know if you want to refer to yourself as institutionalized
> these days!
> >
> > There is no particular problem with what you brought up. If you are
> > investigating a problem in the area of poverty, it is a pretty good idea
> > to talk with people in poverty. With anything you are studying at the
> > doctoral level, it is important to bypass the literature that seeks to
> > interpret and explain phenomena and go directly to the phenomena. If
> > you stayed only with the literature, you would not be a doctoral
> > student. In short, doctoral study is all about Inquiry. It is not
> > about the interpretation of texts--what I call Semantics. The latter is
> > important for knowing what others have found, but that is never a
> > substitute for direct encounter with phenomena. Experiencing phenomena
> > gives one data, and it is actually very hard to find data in the
> > literature. The literature is about Interpreting data, not presenting
> > it in its most concrete form.
> >
> > This holds, I believe, for the actual work on a dissertation. The
> > preliminary and comprehensive phases of doctoral study of course look at
> > the literature--which one learns to read very very carefully.
> >
> > Dick
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