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"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't." -Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2. A chronicle of the pratfalls, circumlocutions, and general hilarity of writing a qualitative dissertation.
Important Dates (If One Believes Time Exists as a Construct)
- January 22, 2009: Dissertation Filing Deadline
- Feb. 23-April 3, 2009: Oral Examinations
- May 11, 2009: Hooding Ceremony
- May 14, 2009: NYU Graduation
The Madness Behind the Method
- Jenn Broome
- Cincinnati by way of Manhattan by way of North Carolina, United States
- ...by day, a mild-mannered PhD student; by night, a self-styled pedagogical ethicist!
Research Rationale (i.e. Profile)
- School: New York University
- Program: PhD, English Education
- Status: Passed my Defense!
- Dissertation Topic: Site-Specific Curricular Documents
- Dissertation Research Methodology: Case Study; Interview; Focus Group
Hey, it's the In-tar-Web!
(Current) Dissertation Reading
- Adler, M. (1982). The Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto. New York: Touchstone.
- Bakhtin, M. M. (1981). The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M.M. Bakhtin (C. Emerson & M. Holquist, Trans.). Austin: University of Texas Press.
- Bakhtin, M. M. (1986). Speech Genres and Other Late Essays (V. W. McGee, Trans.). Austin: University of Texas Press.
- Bakhtin, M. M. (1990). Art and Answerability: Early Philosophical Essays by M.M. Bakhtin. Austin: University of Texas Press.
- Clark, B. (1997). Social Ideologies and Gifted Education in Today's Schools. Peabody Journal of Education, 72(3/4), 81-100.
- Cuban, L. (1993). How Teachers Taught: Constancy and Change in American Classrooms, 1890-1990. New York: Teachers College Press.
- Danto, A. (1968). Analytic Philosophy of History. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
- Derrida, J. (1974). Of Grammatology (G. C. Spivak, Trans.). Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.
- Derrida, J. (1978). Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences (A. Bass, Trans.). In Writing and Difference (pp. 287-294). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Dewey, J. (1997). Experience and Education. New York: Free Press.
- Eagleton, T. (2003). After Theory. New York: Basic Books
- Eagleton, T. (2007). Ideology: An Introduction (2nd ed.). London: Verso.
- Eisner, E. (1992). Objectivity in Educational Research. Curriculum Inquiry, 22(1), 9-15.
- Eisner, E. (1994). The Educational Imagination: On the Design and Evaluation of School Programs (3rd ed.). New York: MacMillan College Publishing Company.
- Ely, M., Anzul, M., Friedman, T., Garner, D., & Steinmetz, A. M. (1991). Doing Qualitative Research: Circles Within Circles. Oxon, England: RoutledgeFalmer.
- Jackson, P. (1992). Conceptions of Curriculum and Curriculum Specialists. In P. Jackson (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Curriculum (pp. 3-40). New York: Macmillan.
- Lévinas, E. (2006). Humanism of the Other. (N. Poller, Trans.). Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
- Morson, G. S., & Emerson, C. (1990). Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
- Pinar, W. (Ed.). (1975). Curriculum Theorizing: The Reconceptualists. Berkeley, CA: McCutchan Publishing Corporation.
- Pinar, W., Reynolds, W., Slattery, P., & Taubman, P. (1995). Understanding Curriculum: An Introduction to the Study of Historical and Contemporary Curriculum Discourses (Vol. 17). New York: Peter Lang.
- Postman, N., & Weingartner, C. (1973). How to Recognize a Good School (Vol. 30). Bloomington, Indiana: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation.
- Purpel, D., & Ryan, K. (1976). It Comes with the Territory: The Inevitability of Moral Education in the Schools. In D. Purpel & K. Ryan (Eds.), Moral Education...It Comes with the Territory (pp. 267-275). Berkeley, CA: McCutchan Publishing Corporation.
- Reid, W. (1978). Thinking About the Curriculum. London: Routledge & Keegan Paul.
- Rosenblatt, L. (1994). The Reader, The Text, The Poem: The Transactional Theory of the Literary Work (2nd ed.). Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP.
- Rosenblatt, L. (1995). Literature as Exploration (5th ed.). New York: The Modern Language Association.
- Silverman, L. (1997). The Construct of Asynchronous Development. Peabody Journal of Education, 72(3/4), 36-58.
- Slattery, P. (1995). Curriculum Development in the Postmodern Era (Vol. 1). New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.
- Vygotsky, L. (1986). Thought and Language. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press
(Current) Ludic Reading
- Everything by Robert Barnard
- Get Fuzzy (a new collection was just released!)
- Guns, Germs, and Steel
- The Sierra Lavatoni Series
- Various essays by Umberto Eco
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