Category Archives: Article Notes

With a Captial G – Chap 5 Notes

Citation: Best, Amy (ed.). Representing Youth: Methodological Issues in Critical Youth Studies. New York: New York University Press. 2006. “doing research with children based on active partnership is much more likely to produce rich, meaningful data than research done on children” “access to children has to be negotiated through multiple layers of gatekeepers.” (p. 133) [...]

Representing Youth Notes – Chap 1

Citation: Best, Amy (ed.). Representing Youth: Methodological Issues in Critical Youth Studies. New York: New York University Press. 2006. First off I have made a note that it is important to establish that the object of my research is the process of creating content, and the population is my partner in the research. “a variant [...]

Representing Youth Intro – Notes and Musings

My previous post took a global approach to this title – now I want to focus in a bit. Citation: Best, Amy (ed.). Representing Youth: Methodological Issues in Critical Youth Studies. New York: New York University Press. 2006. Introduction: “the standpoints or perspectives we privilege shape our understandings of the social worlds we study.” (p. [...]

Social Linguistics and Literacies: Ideology In Discourses (James Paul Gee) – Notes

Social Linguistics and Literacies: Ideology In Discourses (James Paul Gee) – Highlight Loc. 114-15 | language here always comes fully attached to “other stuff”: to social relations, cultural models, power and politics, perspectives on experience, values and attitudes, as well as things and places in the world. – Highlight Loc. 151-52 It’s not just what [...]

Information Practices in Elementary School – Notes

info practices elem school.pdf – Highlight Loc. 36-38 It [info lit] is used in various ways, sometimes as a theoretical concept, but it also has a close relationship to, and is sometimes used interchangeably with, user education at academic and school libraries (Bawden 2001, 235). – I am using it as a theoretical construct – [...]

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