{"id":1401,"date":"2016-08-11T11:50:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T09:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/?page_id=1401"},"modified":"2016-08-14T18:18:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T16:18:52","slug":"reflection-on-my-use-of-participant-observation-and-thick-description","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/reflection\/reflection-on-my-use-of-participant-observation-and-thick-description\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection on my use of Participant Observation and Thick Description"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/data\/thick-descriptions\/how-did-i-use-participant-observation-and-thick-descriptions\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>selective approach<\/strong><\/a> for my <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/data\/thick-descriptions\/what-are-participant-observations\/\" target=\"_blank\">Participant Observation<\/a> might have <strong>arbitrarily limited my findings<\/strong>. While analysing my thick descriptions I was surprised to find that I had included notions of the teacher using <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/2016\/07\/26\/case-examples\/\" target=\"_blank\">examples<\/a> and presenting diverse <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/2016\/07\/26\/opinions\/\" target=\"_blank\">opinions<\/a>. It was no longer comprehensible for me why I had considered these methods &#8220;uncommon&#8221;.\u00a0This makes me wonder which interesting methods may, on the other hand,\u00a0have escaped my notice due to my <strong>perceived focus on the &#8220;uncommon&#8221;<\/strong> and whether an all encompassing approach might not have been more suitable.<\/p>\n<p>As my descriptions which are gained from notes rather than from participant observation, only contain <strong>small parts<\/strong> of the respective class session and are limited to those <strong>aspects which I remembered<\/strong>, I am unsure whether they can be referred to as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/data\/thick-descriptions\/what-are-thick-descriptions\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thick Descriptions<\/a>&#8220;. They might be <strong>missing the required depth<\/strong> to be called thickly descriptive. (This problem is connected to the influence of the ethical requirements on which I reflect <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/reflection\/reflection-on-the-ethical-requirements\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">R<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">eflection on my use of semi-standardised interviews<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>It is very unfortunate that none of the participants has used the opportunity to actively get involved with the research by commenting&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/reflection\/reflection-on-my-use-of-semi-standardised-interviews\/\">read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using a selective approach for my Participant Observation might have arbitrarily limited my findings. While analysing my thick descriptions I was surprised to find that I had included notions of the teacher using examples and presenting diverse opinions. It was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/reflection\/reflection-on-my-use-of-participant-observation-and-thick-description\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2625,"featured_media":0,"parent":199,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1401","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2625"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1725,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1401\/revisions\/1725"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}