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1. Getting started today...
• The WIDE-EMU rocked!
• Touching it-- your research, I mean!
• Progress report due by class time next
week

2. Blakeslee & Fleischer
• As they have said before, know your own
lenses and biases
• Be on the look out for serendipity
• Triangulation revisited....
• The difference of reading as a
methodological tool

3. Blakeslee & Fleischer
• Sidebar 3 and handy little bibliography
• Besides “tape-recorded,” digital audio/video
recordings a good idea too
• You don’t have to do artifact analysis/
ethnography together....
• Permissions for texts “out there” in email,
texts, etc.

4. Ethnography Group
Sierra, Jessica, and Beth....

6. Heath, “The Achievement of
Preschool Literacy....”
• For a summary of Ways With Words, see:
http://revolutionlullabye.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/heath-shirley-brice-
ways-with-words/
• Trackton vs. Roadville
• “...proceed with caution in overusing
ethnographic...” See:
http://shirleybriceheath.net/faqs/faqs.htm

7. Heath, “The Achievement of
Preschool Literacy....”
• “The description reported in this chapter...
does not come from a preplanned ‘research
project’...” (185)
• LOTS and LOTS of detail
• The cultural conditions are critical here
(200-01, for example)
• Parent as co-researcher (aka
autoethnography)

8. Progress reports!
• “Short and simple”... reporting back on
progress of research and contract.
• Be sure to talk about your “touching it”
experiences
• It should be posted before class next week