Welcome and Introductions 2011

I seem to be first, but thought I'd make the most of fresh enthusiasm and sleeping children to put myself out there and get any thoughts on possible areas for research (bearing in mind that this is the next four years of my life!). I'm Emma, and I'm currently Head of Languages at Hendon School. In brief, thinking in terms of passion, the next four years, and something I spend a substantial proportion of my time on, I've narrowed it down to the following:

School trips. The best thing about teaching languages! Looking at ways of measuring impact on self-esteem, communication skills, aspirations, as well as language uptake, achievement etc.

OR something to do with parenting... either teacher identity and how it changes as we become parents OR parental engagement and its impact on pupil performance.

Any thoughts welcomed!

Hi Emma
Welcome. I would like to discuss the use of ICT for languages. Web video conferencing, Google Translate, etc. Good skill in your Ed D.
yours
Dr Anthony 'Skip' Basiel

Well Emma, glad to see you online. Hopefully the readings i sent you this AM will help to "focus" your thoughts/ideas somewhat.

Talk soon

Hi all,

Joining in (thanks Emma). Interesting reading so far, got me thinking about where I have come from as a teacher and why I hold the values I do. Possible research ideas: self image/skills analysis of teaching near the end of their career/thinking of leaving teaching. How our views affect our practice- Didactic/pedagogical/subject expert. The impact on students of different models of teaching. Personal engagement with the teacher and academic success. Only brief ideas, I amsure I will have more but these have thrown themselves up from the reading so far.

You are giving quite much ideas for more than one dissertation and more people will accewpt your ideas, I think there is something for everybody.

Hello Ed D Team -
What a great kick off. Well done Paul, Ian and Tarek!
Here is my introduction......
My Doctorate is in Learning Technology Design
Please see it at https://sites.google.com/site/abasiel/
I invite you to find out more about my personal and professional profile at
http://abasiel.wordpress.com/

One of the best strategies to do from the start is to set up a blog so your research is public.
(Try Wordpress.com - I'm happy to help you.)
You will be surprised that as your web presence grows with your research, so will your professional social network.

So, now onward to your Doctorates......
The adventure begins.
yours,
Dr Anthony 'Skip' Basiel
abasiel@gmail.com

It's still quiet on here, but, in the spirit of 'there's no such question as a stupid question', I thought I'd share the question I asked Paul earlier, by email...


The professional autobiography... I've started to look at some of the literature, and do some planning, but it's not quite clear exactly who the intended audience is - is this 'for friends and family to enjoy' (as in the Michael Oke book) or something that should be much more formal in style, like the articles we've been reading. I'm assuming the expectation is that we include quotations, bibliography, footnotes etc. but, as I start to plan what I want to say, I frequently find that the style of writing (giving the very personal and sometimes anecdotal subject matter) is more informal than that I would use, say, in a literature review or piece of research. Or is it up to us?

Hi Emma,

I'm not doing the course, but I have done the MA. Hopefully I'll register for and EdD/PhD sometime soon. I think that an autobiography should be like that in articles we read but personal to us. So that it would be formal, and only seemingly informal to the person who wrote it...i'm never sure if my thoughts make sense when I put them on paper?

Thanks, Tarek. Is there any chance of you posting a link to this article too, as the book is prohibitively expensive!

Ellis, C and Bochner, A. (2000) ‘Autoethnography, Personal Narrative, Reflexivity: Researcher as Subject’ in Denzin, N. & Lincoln, Y. (Eds) The Handbook of Qualitative Research: Second Edition Thousand Oaks, Sage

I can't find a link to that chapter. The other chapters I posted are from Sage and they act as an encouragement from them to buy the book. However, in a quick search I came across this article: https://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/[…]/3660
The writers say it's an Open Access article and free to share-

The article posted above comes from a free online journal of qualitative research where a simple search of "autoethnography" returns: https://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/[…]/results

There may be some useful articles, not sure, but it's worth having a look...

Hi all,

I am too getting to grips with the assignment and have taken it to be a personal narrative supported by research (some of the 'blue book' we were handed raises some interesting issues to help look at and inform our journies, particularly as a personal, professional narrative that could be used by others to help inform/reflect on their own practice. I hope I am getting the direction right here). I am also now interested in the use of narrative and intersectionality in teaching- could be lined to questioning techniques as well(?). Any good articles to get my teeth into next anyone can recommend?

Tom.

Have just discussed with Paul and decided that I will lead next weeks meeting on the assignment.

I see the year as 3 assignments that are connected. The last we look at the nature of research and plan some research projects in your area. The second looks at the literture and research in your area. The first we have to articulate what you have done, and what you have learned through experience in your area. Each leads to a conpsetual model of what happens in your area which you can compare, contrast and develop.

This makes you a practitioner reeseracher that has experiences to bring. This is the assignment for this term. So
What is your research area?
What are your experiences?
What are your beleifs and values?
How do these shape your research?
How do you concptualise these experiences?

Could I request some more guidance on these - examples of models, how we might go about applying them to our own data, etc. - at next week's session, please?

Does the table from Denzin and Lincoln help illustrate how different approaches/orientations (the way you approach something is influenced by your experience) may influence your research? http://mdxpartnership.org.uk/[…]/table-of-paradigms

Ian is leading the next session and i'll pass him your request.

Tarek