Stabbing for Clarity
Part of making progress in this path I’m on is to continuously carry around a basic set of questions, to have driving interests, clearly articulated, that continuously inform my work. They need to be both narrow and broad, to include specific questions while linking with bigger topics. This is what the reading should inform, what I ask questions about and make links to as I read.
Here is a stab towards articulating mine (hopefully as successful as this cake stabbing with a sword at our wedding :-)). The basic problems I’m interested in are:
- education and social integration in diverse societies
- teachers and changing student demographics
- equity in educational outcomes
- policy implementation, especially language and education policy
The harder pieces to settle on are methodology, specific, researchable questions related to these basic problems, and theory.
July 24th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
I like the reminder that our burning issues must be narrow AND broad, while always linking to bigger issues….Plus, I love the pic from your wedding :>