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In this article, the authors extend Phelps & Hase's (2002) explorations of the theoretical and methodological connections of complexity theory and action research by emphasizing complexity science as the study of learning systems. By emphasizing the…
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Community-based research in public health focuses on social, structural, and physical environmental inequities through active involvement of community members, organizational representatives, and researchers in all aspects of the research process.…
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Notes “Stories are how we think” (p.293). Issue/focus What is the key problem identified by the author(s)? What is the purpose of the article? The four researchers and teacher educators, with over twenty-five years of experience in conducting…
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Issue/focus What is the key problem identified by the author(s)? What is the purpose of the article? The purpose of this article is for the author, himself an ethnographer to explore the relationship and disparity between qualitative and…
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Following the research into narrative of scholars such as Laurel Richardson, Carolyn Ellis, and John Van Maanen, I explore the narrative as a way of writing about experiences of sport, specifically of my experiences of identity within…
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Explores poetic representations in sport and physical education. Aspects of social scientific writing; Proliferation of forms of writing in qualitative research; Process of constructing poetic representations; Experimentation with polyvocality,…
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Teachers, governments and employers around the world all aspire to make young people more creative. These aspirations are motivated by two key concerns: to make experience at school more exciting, relevant, challenging and dynamic; and ensuring that…
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This article explores and shares the creative journey and interpretive process I experienced when creating fiction as a qualitative researcher. I seek to accomplish three things: (a) to articulate the process of creation and interpretation; (b) to…
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Forty-nine participants (24 community mental health clinicians and 25 users of their services) followed a structured set of instructions to create and tell a fictional story. They were then asked how far the fictional story communicated something…
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In this discussion paper multiple points of view, and effects and sources of bias in qualitative research results in organizational information systems are explored. A generic qualitative research process is traced starting from the ways in which…
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In recent years, there has been a literary turn in parts of the social sciences. Attention has been given to social science writings as literature. In this article, the author approaches the issue from the opposite direction by engaging with…
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In general, like Laurel Richardson, the author finds qualitative research reports boring to read. This article shows how the use of creative nonfiction techniques can make such reports less boring. Creative nonfiction involves writing nonfiction…
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This research aims to study the ways in which a teacher learns through and about professional practice. Data presented here is drawn from one year of teaching and focuses on pedagogical practices, critical reflection upon those practices and the…
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Responds to an article in this same issue of this journal. Discusses autoethnography and the roots of this narrative genre; suggests three ways the article connects with the teaching of communication; and notes its legitimacy as scholarly writing…
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Autoethnography has recently become a popular form of qualitative research. The current discourse on this genre of research refers almost exclusively to “evocative autoethnography” that draws upon postmodern sensibilities and whose advocates…