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We are all ready to start on our journey of learning as a small group. There's 5 of us. We've had the 16 weeks in class, and now, with just our 5, we'll have less time on things we don't need to focus on, and more time going towards what we feel inspired by!
We've got a trophy, for the best contributor (I hope I win it lots!!) and actually, unfortunately, today we don't have any snacks to keep us going. Although, I have been wondering sneakily where Debbie's keys to the chocolate biscuits cupboard is!...😋
Kate (who probably deserves the trophy for today) did some readings from last week, and shared back what she'd found out. I was intrigued because she shared a reading about a group of people who'd done some research by Maori, with Maori, for Maori. It's called 'Indigenous Epistemology in a National Curriculum Framework' by McFarlane, Glynn, Grace, Penetito & Bateman.
She said they'd been determined to try to keep a maori kaupapa and involve whanau in the whole process, as a part of trying to do culturally relevant and based research. It made me think of a good friend of mine, who did a masters on 'Women in leadership roles in not-for-profit organizations'. She wanted to do her research through a Maori worldview as well, bringing herself as Maori to her research. She included a lot of kaupapa through the way she interacted with her 'research participants'. I wonder if I read the reading, what kinds of links I'll make with what Val did?
Anyway, on to today's topic. Our upcoming Literature Review...
I've been feeling pretty strongly for a while, that I'd like to do some research about boy's writing. I've got a student in my class who is a clever, creative boy, but has terrible trouble getting the words down on paper or chromebook or anywhere. Anytime he's required to get words down somewhere, he's just stuck like a filipino traffic jam!
Anyways, my colleagues say that writing is about what's going on inside people's heads, not what's on a document. So...if I follow that logic, then boys must be just as great writers as girls, because I don't think girls are more imaginative or creative or intelligent than boys, but for some reason there's a really strong hunch that boys are worse writers than girls!
Also, I was thinking- Isn't there a bunch more men who are paid to write than women? Why, if boys are worse writers than girls, are more men famous authors than women? Is that a true assumption? Or is it just another example of the gender disparity/inequality?
So, although I haven't got a fully formed question yet. We'll have to negotiate it in our group, but I'd like to explore something along the lines, of 'Are boys really bad writers? Or what happens to boys between being good writers (in their heads) and less good recorders (on their pages)'.
Any thoughts? Shoot them at me.
We've got a trophy, for the best contributor (I hope I win it lots!!) and actually, unfortunately, today we don't have any snacks to keep us going. Although, I have been wondering sneakily where Debbie's keys to the chocolate biscuits cupboard is!...😋
Kate (who probably deserves the trophy for today) did some readings from last week, and shared back what she'd found out. I was intrigued because she shared a reading about a group of people who'd done some research by Maori, with Maori, for Maori. It's called 'Indigenous Epistemology in a National Curriculum Framework' by McFarlane, Glynn, Grace, Penetito & Bateman.
She said they'd been determined to try to keep a maori kaupapa and involve whanau in the whole process, as a part of trying to do culturally relevant and based research. It made me think of a good friend of mine, who did a masters on 'Women in leadership roles in not-for-profit organizations'. She wanted to do her research through a Maori worldview as well, bringing herself as Maori to her research. She included a lot of kaupapa through the way she interacted with her 'research participants'. I wonder if I read the reading, what kinds of links I'll make with what Val did?
Anyway, on to today's topic. Our upcoming Literature Review...
I've been feeling pretty strongly for a while, that I'd like to do some research about boy's writing. I've got a student in my class who is a clever, creative boy, but has terrible trouble getting the words down on paper or chromebook or anywhere. Anytime he's required to get words down somewhere, he's just stuck like a filipino traffic jam!
Anyways, my colleagues say that writing is about what's going on inside people's heads, not what's on a document. So...if I follow that logic, then boys must be just as great writers as girls, because I don't think girls are more imaginative or creative or intelligent than boys, but for some reason there's a really strong hunch that boys are worse writers than girls!
Also, I was thinking- Isn't there a bunch more men who are paid to write than women? Why, if boys are worse writers than girls, are more men famous authors than women? Is that a true assumption? Or is it just another example of the gender disparity/inequality?
So, although I haven't got a fully formed question yet. We'll have to negotiate it in our group, but I'd like to explore something along the lines, of 'Are boys really bad writers? Or what happens to boys between being good writers (in their heads) and less good recorders (on their pages)'.
Any thoughts? Shoot them at me.
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