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Saturday, April 14, 2012

Classification Of Research Skills for BUZZ

This task is no longer in progress after my second tutorial. The aim now is to seek a more ethnographic approach. Now in retrospect it is better to let the students give their own account of how they research and let the classification, the construct, grow out of that. (previous idea of setting up a classification and mapping the students researching activity against that is not the approach now.)


I hope to...
'seek a richer story giving a sense of the individual'.

'how long do they research at home / what are their thoughts / what is their tempo etc'? 
'Go home with them and photograph their work spaces' 
'Observe their lives day to day' 
'The context of the research for brief is just a slice, the brief and artifact are aren't so important' 

So I will continue with photographing the students' work and will also interview them on their personal researching activity and methods etc in an attempt to get a sense of them.


5 comments:

  1. Hi there, interesting stuff. I look forward to your findings

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  2. Hi Steph, looking forward to seeing the students spaces and observe their lives day to day. Well done it is a really interesting angle. Jane.

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  3. Thanks for the comments guys. It rolling along really, although work has been utter madness for the past few weeks running up to the year end and exhibition. My students have just finished now and I am marking since Wednesday.
    I've a lot of photos from my case study groups' sketchpads to pour over, analyse, assess what it captures, edit - etc. etc. but I'm getting there slowly and enjoying it. I've done a video piece with each student also on Kierans advice and that has been enormously informative and given me great insight. I will upload that in the coming week hopefully. all the best! x

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    1. http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=ethnography+and+design+primer&view=detail&id=3281D24F823B222D3FA524F073CA4231917B40C2&FORM=IDFRIR

      Hi Steph, came across this, your presentation reminded me of it, might be of interest to you, all the best Ciara

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  4. That's great Ciara... thanks so much. I found it great and have "Delicious-ed" it for my students too! Cheers for that!

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