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At 10:50 22-10-01 -0400, you wrote: >> >> I'm teaching a two-day interactive course on **handling** qualitative data, >> next month, in Sydney. Not on any software, rather on why you would be >> wanting to do this and what to do with qualitative data if you get some. >> >[SNIP]> >> I'd be interested to hear from listmembers about this approach - and what >> they'd look for, or try to fit in, such a course! >> I like the short piece by John Seidel (developper of The Ethnograph), available at his website: http://www.QualisResearch.com/QDA.htm , file name qda.pdf, called 'Qualitative Data Analysis' which offers a basic model of QDA as a recursive process of noticing, collecting and thinking about things, as well as his observations on the limitations of the code-and-retrieve as applied to data fragments. So I ask my students to read that. I also start with explaining how QDA was done before 1980, and how present day programs can be seen as facilitating a 'simulation' of such operations with other means. This is not a denyal of the many find additions that present-day programs make available, but a warning the the basic process is as it was, something that happens between you and your data. Not that I think this is new to you Lyn! Paul Paul ten Have, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam. O.Z. Achterburgwal 185, 1012 DK Amsterdam, the Netherlands http://www.pscw.uva.nl/emca/index.htm