Announcements and Plenary Address - Transforming Qualitative Inquiry Through Revisiting the Personal Narrative: Oral History, Life History and Biography
Location
Knight Auditorium
Format Type
Plenary
Start Date
January 2015
End Date
January 2015
Abstract
The qualitative lens of the personal narrative offers researchers an array of pathways to stories that may influence policy, open up understanding of social justice, and eventually make a better world. Oral History, Life history and Biography are three dependable and long standing approaches to be described and explained in this keynote address. This may lead to transformations in content in our respective fields and most certainly in methodology. Furthermore, in this digital era, many digital resources are available to enhance, illuminate and make elegant those stories that resonate with our lives. That plus the rigor involved in capturing the experiences and understandings of ordinary life teach us that stories are indeed the sustenance of life. Techniques of qualitative inquiry such as reflective journal writing, the long interview, playmaking and photography as a research technique will be discussed.
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Announcements and Plenary Address - Transforming Qualitative Inquiry Through Revisiting the Personal Narrative: Oral History, Life History and Biography
Knight Auditorium
The qualitative lens of the personal narrative offers researchers an array of pathways to stories that may influence policy, open up understanding of social justice, and eventually make a better world. Oral History, Life history and Biography are three dependable and long standing approaches to be described and explained in this keynote address. This may lead to transformations in content in our respective fields and most certainly in methodology. Furthermore, in this digital era, many digital resources are available to enhance, illuminate and make elegant those stories that resonate with our lives. That plus the rigor involved in capturing the experiences and understandings of ordinary life teach us that stories are indeed the sustenance of life. Techniques of qualitative inquiry such as reflective journal writing, the long interview, playmaking and photography as a research technique will be discussed.
Comments
Valerie J. Janesick, Ph.D., is Professor of Educational Leadership in the Department of Leadership, Counseling, Adult, Career, and Higher Education at the University of South Florida. She teaches courses in Qualitative Research Methods, Critical Pedagogy, and Oral History Life History and Biography. Her writings have been published in Curriculum Inquiry, Qualitative Inquiry, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, and other major journals. Her books include Stretching Exercises for Qualitative Researchers, Oral History Methods for the Qualitative Researcher: Choreographing the Story, and Authentic Assessment Primer. She is currently working on her eighth book, Zen and the Art of Qualitative Research. She serves on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Qualitative Methods and The Qualitative Report. She is currently taking classes in Yoga and Meditation. Her most prized possession is her British Library Reader’s Card as she is working on an archival project on the letters of John Dewey written to educators around the world.