I’ve finally developed a content analysis model I like for my literature sidequest, but implementing it has been an education of its own. I’ve never fully gained control of my reading speeds: I have slow and extremely focused or I have quick skimming. I’ll retain the slow approach well, but if I stop to take […]
I got sidetracked for a while, finishing old assignments, dealing with some household stuff. I find it’s easy to get back to it once I’m sitting at the desk, but THAT is the challenge. Getting in position. Making time, pulling myself away from other things. My current estimate is that it takes me 2x as […]
— and yes, there has to be a process —
The goal of graduate school is not to learn everything there is to learn about a field; indeed, the breadth of anything warranting the term “field” should be far too deep, and when you add in the hyperspecialization researchers and educators are expected to develop there’s simply too much for any one mind to handle. […]
Two quick notes for future contemplation (then the inevitable tangents): The sheer joy I feel in organizing a segment of thesis, only to slash it away into a separate document for future development, tells me everything I need about whether research is a good direction for my life. It wasn’t until I was working on […]
The last few sessions, every time I sit down to my thesis, I have felt invigorated, enlivened by the topic and the contribution I hope to make. Today started out much the same, but after a few hours of just moving around tidbits and half-citations, it’s starting to set in just how much of an […]
I’ve only conducted one other interview in graduate school. Although I think I did a great job with the interview itself, I was trying to shoehorn a lot into a theory class whose scope should have been much more precise. This is part of why I don’t think I’m good at theory. I can’t focus […]
I write this from sunny Oakland, California. I’ve traveled more in the last year than I ever did as a caregiver, and the logistics and costs have been… punishing. I missed a deadline to get some conference reimbursements this month, but that was far from the first cost I’ve eaten. Travel was one of the […]
I am, to be honest, quite fried this week, so I’m going to share my notes unstructureded in response to Michelle Ortlipp’s “Keeping and Using Reflective Journals in the Qualitative Research Process”. I like the idea of balancing “transparency” against poststructuralism (697) and “making my history, values, and assumptions open to scrutiny” (698) I note […]
We have this “fun” activity we’re supposed to do this week, wherein we use software to write poetry about our research paradigm. There is no part of that sentence that appeals to me, especially in combination. But I have it lucky, I’m still bursting with ideas and versatility after all these years. While I’m struggling […]
Theories of Care 