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]]> https://chnm2008.thatcamp.org/05/27/exploring-research-methods/#comment-169 Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:41:59 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=42#comment-169 […] afternoon I facilitated a session on research methods. At the request of some of the participants, I’m posting the rough notes I took during this […]

]]> https://chnm2008.thatcamp.org/05/27/exploring-research-methods/#comment-168 Wed, 28 May 2008 19:40:26 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=42#comment-168 Thanks so much for the references, Anna. I’m looking forward to reading these works. And I love the idea of teaching around the things that need to be uncovered!

]]> https://chnm2008.thatcamp.org/05/27/exploring-research-methods/#comment-167 Tue, 27 May 2008 22:59:17 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=42#comment-167 Lisa, you very likely have already perused scholarship by these individuals, but I’ll offer their names anyway– I’ve found their work transformative in thinking about uncluttering higher education and getting to the bones of conscientious but adaptive research methods in the humanities (and the professions). In “Pedagogies of Uncertainty,” Lee Shulman (Carnegie Institute) writes about forming habits for the disciplines and ensuring a timeless scaffold to offer “quality control” for disciplines with, like English, changing faces. I think his work might offer some interesting food for thought in terms of rethinking/reimagining research methodologies from a big-picture perspective. And Erik Meyer & Ray Land have written “Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge,” which I think could offer an interesting avenue into thinking about (as you mention) what English students need to know/how they come to know it. (In class this past semester, Prof. Randy Bass, discussing Meyer & Land, quoted someone with a thoughtful way of framing M&L’s argument in maxim: “Let’s structure teaching not around the things that need be covered, but instead around the things that need to be uncovered.”) I look forward to meeting you this weekend!

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