OK, I admit it. I am one of those logical mathematical thinkers (per Gardner) who loves organized data in charts and graphs. Thank you, Phillips & Hardy (2002) for the Reflexivity in Discourse primer (p. 85) that lays out the reflexive stances of researchers adopting this stance. It helps to explain (to me) which elements of DA, CDA, and DASP that are either natural or unnatural to my own epistemology. Now, I am looking for areas to include this gem in all of my work which may or may not fly with my group members.
I am really looking forward to the class feedback tomorrow to my group's project. We have wrestled, struggled, faltered, etc. in our approach to the task, but we have also progressed, analyzed, learned, and negotiated meaning in the process. As has been the case for each qual course I take, I learn in huge jumps that require a settling in afterward. My experience with into to qual required a big break before I felt comfortable allowing the shifting of my earth again with DA. Now, I am sure that I need the Spring semester off again to allow the new DA fault line to run its course.
Thank you for the patience as I struggle with my own post-positivist, progressive-pragmatist background. These foundations have been given a good shaking over the past many years and qual (in general) and Dr. Trena Paulus (in particular) have been largely responsible for the big ideas I now feel are discussable.
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