Friday, October 16, 2015

mah na mah na AKA Phenomenography

Margy McMillan - Mount Royal University
Drawing Patterns in/from the Data: Using Phenomenography to Understand Variation

-    what sparks generate connections
-    research that involves arts and craft (cutting up research results in order to identify themes)
-    familiarize yourself with the research
-    Phenomenography is like cataloguing, setting your categories
-    ask yourself "why do you think that is in that category?"  "why is that category different from this other category?"
-    "the data shimmers in the intense light of our analysis" (Marton and Booth 1997, pg. 134)
-    shouldn't be a struggle to have items fit into the variety of categories
-    word association, context association, text and meaning
-    meaning, analogy, integration, critique
-    from the surface to deep reading
-    sparks, connections and reading
-    almost all students in her study had a deep connection with text
-    focus on variation in experiences (not students) works with constructivist learning philosophy
-    part of a class that she teaches on reading academic literature


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