Multilayered Representation in Research

Authors

Kathryn DeLawter, Pace UniversityFollow
Adrienne Sosin, Pace UniversityFollow
Julie MabeyFollow

Abstract

This paper describes a multi-layered qualitative action research study presented at the Twelfth Annual Conference on Ethnographic and Qualitative Research. "The Aesthetics of Ethnography: A Moving Triangle," was an interactive installation that demonstrated the aesthetics of ethnography for education. Participants were invited to share their own constructions of meaning when engaged in activities related to multicultural calendar artifacts. The research methodology of this study is collective reflection, developed by the researchers in the process of interpreting teacher education student's multicultural calendar artifacts as texts. The article highlights one of the multicultural calendar artifacts displayed in the installation, through hyperlinks to images of the multicultural calendar artifact itself. Our discussion of multiple representations gives insight into how we, as teacher educators, generate language in curriculum development for multicultural teacher education. Now the journey is ending the wind is losing heart Into your hands it's falling, a rickety house of cards. The cards are backed with pictures displaying all the world. You've stacked up all the images and shuffled them with words. And how profound the playing that once again begins! Stay, the card you're drawing is the only world you'll win. Ingeborg Bachmann, 1926-1973 Translated from the German by Peter Filkins.

Keywords

qualitative research

Publication Date

10-1-2000

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DOI

10.46743/2160-3715/2000.1949

Recommended APA Citation

DeLawter, K., Sosin, A., & Mabey, J. (2000). Multilayered Representation in Research. The Qualitative Report, 5(3), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2000.1949