I am re-reading Letizia's message and I see that she never mentioned the
word textbook.
I think I may have overinterpreted her words: what an ethnographic SIN.
I still think textbooks are a tricky media for knowledge and for learning
skill development.
I apologize if my first email sounds harsh, nothing personal at all.
Cheers Anna
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Letizia Caronia wrote:
> >Hi Letty
> >Thanks for your swift reply where amongst other things you wrote:
> >"I wonder if this kind of double construction (constructing the event by
> >beeing there and (re) constructing it through analysis) could be the
> >peculiar trait of ethnography and could make the difference with other
> >qualitative approaches."
> >
> >This is certainly something which other ethnographers have put forth as
> >characteristic. Paul Atkinson goes a step further in describing a three
> >stage process with the third being a textual reconstruction in writing
> >out/writing up the work. If I remember rightly, a number of constributors
> >to Sanjek's (1990) book on fieldnotes (most definitely James Clifford and
> >Roger Sanjek himself) make similar statements to Atkinsons, and in an IJQSE
> >paper from 1995 Jean Lave describes things similarly in her transcribed
> >interview with Steinar Kvale.
> >
> >Cheers: D
> >
> Hi Dennis,
>
> I know Paul Atkinson works on ethnographic imagination and textual
> constructions of reality (and the writing culture school, too) but what is
> the book of Roger Sanjek you mention? And (sorry for that) what is IJQSE?
> I feel ethnographic approach in educational research consistent with the
> phenomenological perspective in education (here in Italy, is a paradigm
> carried out by Piero Bertolini, I work with), but there is so little for
> italian students on this specific matter (and very few students read english!)
> So I'm thinking on writing something on ethnographic approach in educational
> research . A book, perhaps, to give a general idea of theoretical,
> epistemological and methodological implications, or an anthology or
> collected papers of more authors that I can edit..(is there anyone
> interested on?).
> Is just a project but anyway I'm collecting litterature...and the works you
> mention are new for me.
> Thanks again for your remarks and suggestions,
> Friendly, Letty
>
> >
> >
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