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Exploring positioning, purpose and power through pictures, poetry and progress charts: An introduction to some different ways of working with fieldwork data. Acknowledgements.

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  1. Exploring positioning, purpose and power through pictures, poetry and progress charts: An introduction to some different ways of working with fieldwork data

  2. Acknowledgements • The work reported in this paper forms part of the FurtherHigher Project. The FurtherHigher Project isfunded by the Economic and Social Research Council (Award Reference RES-139-25-0245) and is part of the ESRC’s Teaching and Learning Research Programme. The paper presents ideas developed by: Cate Goodlad Will Thomas Val Thompson

  3. Overview • Introduction • The FurtherHigher Project • Friday afternoon syndrome • Exploring positioning, purpose and power • Working with data in different ways • Pictures, poetry and progress charts • End notes

  4. The FurtherHigher Project • Widening participation in HE • ‘Dual sector’ institutions (further and higher education) • Transitions between level 3 and level 4 (beginning of HE) andbetween level 5 and level 6 (2 year HE to honours year) • Sectoral shape and structure • Patterns of participation (statistical analysis)

  5. Exploring positioning, purpose and power The FurtherHigher Project asks the question: What is the impact of the division between further and higher education on strategies to widen participation in undergraduate education in England?

  6. This raises issues related to • Stratification • Differentiation • Social justice and equity • Structure and agency

  7. What do alternative forms of working with data do? • Help us to try out ideas • Help us to think differently • Help us to see things differently • Help us to ask questions • Help us to re-present ideas

  8. Pictures, poetry and progress charts Tables Maps Pictorial diagrams Photos Student timetables Waterlogic diagrams Tag clouds A Stick Verse

  9. AVCE Health and Social Care sample at Northgreen College

  10. Higher National Diploma sample at Northgreen College

  11. Location of case study and other Further Education Colleges

  12. Home locations of National Diploma Business Students from East Heath College

  13. Home locations of National Diploma Sports Students from East Heath College

  14. Home locations of Foundation Degree Early Years Students from East Heath College

  15. Pathways to higher educationCULINARY ARTS MANAGEMENTGROUP 1: ACADEMIC BRIDGING PROGRAMME

  16. Pathways to higher educationCulinary Arts ManagementGROUP 2: PRACTICAL BRIDGING PROGRAMME

  17. Teaching room at Daiston Campus site of Northgreen Federal College

  18. Wall display in teaching room at Daiston Campus site of Northgreen Federal College

  19. College notice at Tultry College site of Northgreen Federal College

  20. Timetable in year 1 of Social Work at University

  21. Timetable for the week in year 3 (final year) of BSc Sports Therapy

  22. Waterlogic Flow Sally

  23. Sally Flow Diagram 1

  24. Sally Flow Diagram 2

  25. Tag clouds

  26. National Diploma Sports Student at East Heath College

  27. End notes • The most admirable thinkers within the scholarly community you have chosen to join do not split their work from their lives. To unleash the imagination C. Wright Mills recommends: • Rearrange the file of ideas, papers etc that you have collected • Be playful with phrases and words with which issues are defined, for example look up synonyms, and pursue words to their roots • Set up a new classification: charts, tables, and diagrams of a qualitative sort are not only ways to display work already done; they are very often genuine tools of production. • How you go about arranging materials for presentation always affects the content of your work. C. Wright Mills, 1959

  28. The Sociological Imagination • Know that many personal troubles cannot be solved merely as troubles, but must be understood in terms of public issues – and in terms of the problems of history-making. Know that the human meaning of public issues must be revealed by relating them to personal troubles – and to the problems of the individual life. • The sociological imagination has its chance to make a difference in the quality of human life in our time. C. Wright Mills (1959)

  29. What IS your story? • Usually most of what you have to say about a topic can readily be put into one chapter or section of a chapter. But the order in which all your topics are arranged often brings you into the realm of themes. • Sometimes, by the way, you may find that a book does not really have any themes. It is just a string of topics, surrounded, of course, by methodological introductions to methodology, and theoretical introductions to theory. These are indeed quite indispensable to the writing of books by men [sic] without ideas. (238) C. Wright Mills (1959)

  30. Relationships between methods, methodology, epistemology and ontology* (Iceberg courtesy of David James, UWE Bristol)

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