FSS:soc932 Data Analysis-Qualitat Res - Course Information

soc932 Data Analysis-Qualitative Research

Extent and Intensity

0/0. 15 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Bc. Hedvika Cimbálníková (assistant)
Mgr. Jana Sedláčková Krištoforyová (assistant)
doc. Mgr. Kateřina Zábrodská, Ph.D. (assistant)

Guaranteed by

prof. PhDr. Ivo Čermák, CSc.
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Soňa Enenkelová

Prerequisites

REQUIRED READINGS:
Davies, B. & Gannon, S (eds.) (2006). Doing collective biography: Investigating the production of subjectivity. Maidenhead, Berkshire: Open University Press/ McGraw Hill.
Gannon, S. & Davies, B. (2007): Postmodern, Poststructural, and Critical Theories. In: Hesse-Biber, S. N. (Ed.): Handbook of Feminist Research. Theory and Praxis. Thousand Oaks, Sage (pp. 71-106).
Davies, B. & Gannon, S. (2009). Feminism/Post-structuralism. In: C. Lewin & B. Somekh (Eds.). Research Methods in the Social Sciences Second Edition. Thousand Oaks: Sage (forthcoming)
Davies, B. (2009). Listening: a radical pedagogy. Keynote address, Challenging education: Feminist and anti-oppressive strategies in teaching and learning. The first Nordic Conference on feminist pedagogies. Uppsala, 14-16 June 2009

Course Enrolment Limitations

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The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
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Course objectives

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE METHOD: Collective biography is a research strategy that works at the level of bodily knowledge and of affect, and moving beyond individualized versions of the subject, toward subjects-in-relation, subjects-in-process (Davies and Gannon, 2006). The practice of collective biography involves researchers and participants, over several consecutive days, meeting and talking about their chosen topic, telling their own remembered stories relevant to that topic, and writing them down. The relationship between the participants and the written texts, and memories evoked in the workshop space, is developed through a particular kind of close attention to each others’ stories. Through listening and questioning each other on the remembered, embodied, affective detail, each story becomes imaginable with/in the minds/bodies of everyone. After telling stories, and listening to stories, and talking together about those stories, they are written, avoiding clichés and explanations. Each story is then read out loud to the group, registering the images now in the written form, and heard again in the modality of voice, through the vibrations in the bodies of speakers and listeners.
In our book, Doing Collective Biography (2006), Susanne Gannon and I coined the term mo(ve)ment in order to evoke the doubled action involved in our collective story-telling and writing, of dwelling in and on particular moments of being, and of movement toward, or openness to, new possibilities both of seeing and of being. In telling, listening, questioning, writing, reading and rewriting our stories, a shift takes place. The memories are no longer told and heard as just autobiographical (that is, an assemblage of already known stories that mark one individualized person off from the next), but as opening up for, and in, each other, knowledges of being that previously belonged only to the other, as that other’s marks of identity. In working collectively with memories, we live intimately within our own bodies, and our bodies take on the intimate knowledge of each other’s being. Each subject’s specificity in its very particularity, in its sensory detail, becomes, through this process, the collectively imagined detail through which we know ourselves as human, even as more human -- as humans-in-relation.

Syllabus

• BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE COURSE:
• It is anticipated that students will begin reading for the course during December 2009. They will each have a copy of the book Doing Collective Biography edited by Davies and Gannon, which they should have read prior to the course, along with readings in the required reading list, which will be available in the library. Lectures and workshops will take place on the days of Friday 22nd January to Monday 25th January. Each day will begin with a 2 hour lecture and open discussion, from 9-11, on the method of collective biography. This will be followed by two 2 hour workshops from 11-1 and 2-4. During these workshops the students will work in 4 small groups of five participants (total of 20 students) and generate their own memory stories relevant to the topic chosen by the group for study. They will then learn how to work with those stories as data.
• On Tuesday 26th and Wed 27th students and staff will have access to individual or small group consultations.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

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