Classroom notes 3/21/12

Narrative Inquiry
- what meaning can you the researcher take from what happened?
- may interpret stories, autobiographies, journals, filed notes, interviews, conversations

Oral History
- the actual recording of what happened- the participants stories/history/experience

1. Epistemology: ways of knowing & interpreting meaning
    ex. feminist, critical, marxist, etc.
2. mathodology: means of interpreting collected data
    ex. narrative inquiry, oral history, phenomenology
3. Methods: means of actually collecting data
    ex. semi- structured interviews, research, blogging, etc.
4. your actual data
    - the research/knowledge you collect