16th Annual Conference on Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies

Conference Agenda

Friday, January 3, 2003

1:00-4:00 Pre-conference Institutes at the College of Education at the University of Georgia (pre-registration required, see page 5 of this brochure)

2:30-4:30 Registration - Conference Registration Desk at the Georgia Center

5:00-6:30 Opening Session
Keynote Address: Dr. Lois Weis, Professor at The State University of New York at Buffalo
Learning to Speak Out in a Sex Education Group: Working Across the Borders of Race and Class in an Urban Magnet School

6:30-8:00 Standing reception at the Georgia Center

Saturday, January 4, 2003

8:00-9:30 Registration-Conference Registration Desk at the Georgia Center

8:15-9:15 Concurrent Sessions - I

1/2 hour papers

Reading for critical consciousness in teacher education - Lucia Y. Lu, Chasity Gamble & Starla Lewis
Localizing the global and globalizing the local: Intercultural approaches to teaching and research - Melanie Davenport

Research with Hispanic immigrants: A gringa's lessons learned - Nikki Ashcroft
Crossing boarders: Issues in (re)presenting research conducted in another language - Roemer M.S. Visser

By the way, what church do you go to?: Fieldwork sensitivities in aging research - Diane M. Kraft
Methodological recollections of field research in researching my own culture - Jung-ah Choi

The university-community partnership as a contact zone: A learning history - Mary R. Domahidy, Thomas J. Kramer, & Christine Luebbert
Making connections between home and school: Teachers communicating with Hispanic immigrant families - Cathy R. Payne

1 hour panels Imagining new lives: Exploring contact zones through student texts and teacher narratives - Robert Linné, Denis Parsons, & Susan Wellington

What was the question?: Team data analysis and the struggle for clarity admidst the clutter of a multi-case study - Prudence Merton, Carolyn Clark, Jeffrey Froyd, & Jim Richardson

3 hour workshops Analysis and inquiry through video data: mediating the contact zone - Betsy Rymes

Women, worrying, and whining: A workshop on Autoethnographic writing - Leonora Wiebe, Elizabeth Quinlan, & Beverly Dent

1 hour roundtable "Mind the gap": Qualitative researchers and mixed methods research - Linda Bliss & Tonette S. Rocco

9:15-9:30 Morning Refreshment Break

9:30-10:30 Concurrent Sessions - II

1/2 hour papers Women and education: An examination of stakeholders' perceptions - A.I. Fabiyi
Learning among women in violent times: How culture and values are communally situated for Palestinian and Israeli women - Jessica Carter Kimmel

Contact zones in higher education advising: An auto-ethnographic study of providing developmental advisement to African American students - Roland Mitchell & Gerald L. Rosiek

Breaking and entering: Reflections of language and cultural issues of school resource officers - Carol Fabrey
Are there any "alternatives" to alternative schools? - Carol Pearson

You write!: Contact zones and the production of literacy - Susan Weinstein
Beyond phenomenological interviews: Giving voice through co-construction of knowledge - John M. Peters & Mark S. Cotter

The pursuit of higher learning in Black and White - Deneen M. Harris, Denise Davis-Maye, & Sandra Flynn

1 hour panel Classroom experience and critical literacy in the contact zone - Barbara G. Pace, Jane S. Townsend, Katherine Kiss, & Xenia Hadjiouannou

1. 5 hour alternative format "The first step is the Two-step": Gay mens' intimacy in the Two-step - Corey W. Johnson

1 hour roundtables Female elite athletes with disabilities: A quality of life perspective - Diane Groff, Sharon Knight, Boni Boswell, & Jim Decker

Ethical issues in Internet research - Elizabeth Kennedy

Incorporating photo elicitation in qualitative interviewing - Thomas Hébert

The role of collaborative learning within an entrepreneurial venture - Kimberly J. Naujock

10:45-11:45 Concurrent Session - III

1/2 hour papers Families of Mexican origin: Living within a disability context - Irma Alvarado

Factors contributing to the retention of assistive technology team members in public schools - Frank Luth & Doris M. Martin

Analyzing multiple forms of literacies: Transforming a theoretical framework into an analytical model - Leslie S. Rush
American women and solo travel: How travel abroad affects identity development - Lesley E. Tomaszewski

Laying a solid foundation for collaborative fieldwork through the earth mother groundbreaking ceremony - Maureen Porter
Sharing stories: An ethnography of a service learning experience in Jamaica - Adam Renner

Teachers on the front line: Advocates for curricular change in English at an at-risk high school - Anne Blanchard
Mentoring in the multi-age arts classroom - Zach kelehear & Karen Heid

"Don't let Satan get a foothold": Decision-making when the participant-researcher is cast out - Jennifer Deets

1 hour panels Composing multimedia texts in a high school architecture and agriculture classes - Peter Smagorinsky, Leslie Susan Cook, & Victoria Pettis

Twice removed: A White scholar studies Black sororities and a Black scholar responds - Marybeth Gasman & Lucretia Payton-Stewart

1 hour workshop Teachers exploring a variation on descriptive review process - Michelle Commeyras, Bob Fecho, Kathy Roulston, Jennifer Aaron, Eurydice Bauer, Sharon Cox, Hope Edwards Vaughn, Ellen Elrick, Bren Masters Daniell, Andrea M. Pintaone-Hernandez, & Amanda Siegel

1 hour roundtables Parents' understanding and experiences of attachment with adopted children from China - Jerry Gale, Jay Rojewski, & Wen-Chi Lin

Incorporating photo elicitation in qualitative interviewing - Thomas P. Hebért

11:45-1:15 Buffet Lunch at the Georgia Center Banquet Area

1:15-2:15 Concurrent Session - IV

1/2 hour papers "Phenomenology at Ground Zero": An exploration of bracketing in collaborative research - Carol A. Marchel & Geri Miller

The role of culture in continuing professional education: An examination of epistemology and reflection among Native American women - Vivian W. Mott

Refugiadas cubanas: Investment, motivations, and English language learning - John Butcher

Improving literacy through parents as partners - Jennifer E. Aaron & Alexa Darby

Epiphanies and powerful thoughts: Using reflective practice to strengthen teachers' understanding of their own literacy instruction - Sharon M. Peck

"We are all in this together, aren't we?": The role of "the group" in HIV-positive adults' identity incorporation and learning - Lisa M. Baumgartner

You say potato, I say potato: You say qualitative, I say quantitative - Elizabeth Quinlan

1 hour panels Researchers' guide to getting on your groove - Carol Pearson, Jonathan Vare, & Christine Ferguson

Conversations about teaching across contact zones: Focus groups with educators in K-12, arts and sciences, and college education settings - Sally Hudson-Ross, Betty Bisplinghoff, Ron Butchart, & Linda Gilbert

1.5 hour readers' theatre Positive youth development in adolescent girls - Angie Smith, Ciercie Olatunji, Tiffany Bates, Latasha Clay, & Kimberly Frazier

2 hour workshop Advocacy research: Tensions between critical and postmodern theories and methods in speaking for others - Elizabeth St.Pierre, Bob Hill, Alecia Jackson, Jamie B. Lewis, & Joe Moore

1 hour roundtables Reevaluating the value of focus group interview data - Betsy Rymes & Kathy Roulston

The body and subject in Autoethnography: A deconstructive reading - Jodi Kaufmann

Boundary crossings: Women of color researching the "other" - Janice Fournillier & Cecile Diane Cachaper

2:30-3:30 Concurrent Session - V

1/2 hour papers Creating a way of being on line: A multinational collaborative learning experience - John M. Peters & Betty B. Ragland
On co-constructing the fabric of our lives: A metaphor in three movements - Betty B. Ragland

The arts, at-risk youth, and personal transformation - Richard Siegesmund
Beyond the horizon: Visitor meaning-making and the Vatican frescoes - Lee Brodie

He said, she said: A discourse analysis of relationship stories told by males and by females - Jacqueline M. Barnett
Sociocultural contexts of learning school mathematics: Impact of social/cultural capital on girls motivation and identity - Jae Hoon Lim

Blurred paradigms and deconstructive cultural practices - Mirka Koro-Ljungberg
The misadventures of a qualitative researcher: Navigating a quantitative research setting - Morag Burke

"Villages are the same everywhere": Reflections on life in an African village and a Louisiana town - Laurie L. Charles

1 hour alternative format The topography of uncertain worlds: Students' exploration of epistemology in Western science - Carol Brandt

1 hour panels Seeking higher ground: Advocacy research in literacy education - Meredith R. Cherland & Helen J. Harper

Taking teachers to Mexico and bringing transformative introspection back to class - Jennifer E. Aaron & Melisa Cahnmann

1 hour roundtables A student teacher's identity construction through working with students in poverty - Nakheung Kim

The legal needs of older women: What do they say? - Carol Rossiter

3:30-3:45 Afternoon Refreshment Break

3:45-5:15 Invited Sessions

Invited Sessions The limits of our work: Issues in queer studies - Mollie Blackburn & Corey W. Johnson

Introduction to Qualitative Software Programs in Qualitative Data Analysis - Gilbert, L.

Panels Publishing your Qualitative Studies - Alverman, D., & Reinking, D., Editors for Journal of Literacy Research & Peter Smagorinsky, Editor for Research in the Teaching of English, University of Georgia

The story of the question: Writing and publishing as a practitioner action researcher - Bob Fecho, Betty Bisplinghoff, Michelle Commeyras, & Karen Hale Hankins

Interactive symposium Get it together!: Organizing strategies for qualitative data - Janette Hill

5:30-7:00 Evening Session
Keynote Address: Dr. Michelle Fine, Professor at The City University of New York
Locally Deep and Globally Wide? Theorizing Participation Research Across Sites for Struggle and Possibility: Researching with Youth in Schools, Prisons, and on the Streets

7:30-10:00 BANQUET AT THE GEORGIAN

Sunday, January 5, 2003

8:15-9:15 Concurrent Session - I

1/2 hour papers African American women care-givers: Learning to provide care to family members with Alzheimer's disease. A pilot study: Ida a participant - Joan M. Detry Burke
Scenario interviews and consensus analysis: Methodological innovations to study cultural influences on human behavior - Raminta Daniuliatyte

From cultural beliefs to folk pedagogy: Five student teachers' stories - Hyo-Jin Ahn
Qualities of interactions between constructivist-informed elementary mentor teachers and their student teachers - Denise D. Palas

Advocacy and interdisciplinary community research - Janet K. Pilcher Gayle A. Juneau
Collaborative research for social justice: Developing a humanizing methodology - Camille Wilson Cooper

Teachers' perceptions of emotions in the classroom - Lori P. Aultman, Rebecca I. Garcia, & Paul A. Schutz
"It's pointless to deny that the dynamics is there": Sexuality in the secondary classroom - Tara Star Johnson

The promise of C.S. Pierce's semiotics for teacher knowledge research - Becky Atkinson & Jerry Rosiek

Race matters: Researching in a multicultural society - Mazanah Muhamad & Kit Oong Ng

Forming communities: Three action research projects on collaborative learning - John M. Peters Robin Fazio, Allyson
Women's global connection - Dorothy Ettling

1 hour panels Qualitative awareness in an interspiritual age - Gerald McGregor, Elizabeth McEntire, & Cathy Snapp

3 hour workshop Establishing quality in qualitative research - L. Earle Reybold

2 hour workshop Advocacy, agency, and adolescents: Working in multiple contact zones - Stephanie Bowles & Betty Smith Franklin

1 hour roundtable Getting real: A win-win-win partnership for developing interview skills - Sherry Clouser Clark, Linda Gilbert, Dennis Hembree, & Nicole Torrence

9:15-9:30 Morning Refreshment Break

9:30-10:30 Concurrent Session - II

1/2 hour papers Grimy meets dirty: Differences and similarities in Northern and Southern Hip Hop - Joycelyn A. Wilson
Cibercafés and virtual violence: Digital experts or virtual aggressors - Gerardo Contreras

Disrupting gender: Construction of masculinity & femininity in a center for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, & questioning youth - Mollie V. Blackburn
Identity construction of female scholars: One graduate student's writing on academia and identity - Katherine Babka

Teachers' experiences of cultural boarder crossings through collaborative field research - Patricia A. Hembree
Time shifts: Contrasting voices of technology - Dean M. Elliot

Faith in god, knowing, and representation of research - Diane Sekeres
Spiritual dimensions of transformational learning: A phenomenological study - Mike Healy

Contact zones in student teaching - Jennifer Olson

Zero to sixty seconds in ten seconds, zero to poverty in one diagnosis: Autoethnography as a window to personal and social implications of breast cancer - Leonora Wiebe

1.5 hour alternative format Bias in the rearview mirror: Encounters with stereotypes in the interview process - Diane M. Kraft, Lesley E. Tomaszewski, & Roemer M.S. Visser

1 hour panel The coolhunt ethnography: Introducing qualitative research to preservice teachers - Donald R. Livingston, Gregory Channing Morris, Tiffany Clark, Mathew Graham, Amber Nolen, D.J. Paradis, & Nigel Walker

2 hour workshop "We are a voice in the wilderness": Successfully using people living with HIV as advisors in planning and funding HIV services - Cynthia Cannon Poindexter

1 hour roundtable Constructing narratives of beginning science teachers: Decisions, details, and dilemmas - Leslie Upson & Rachel Foster

10:45-11:45 Concurrent Session - III

1/2 hour papers My journey into interdisciplinary qualitative learning and research - Dorothy B. Stulberg
Collaborative learning: A qualitative connection between corporate contact zones - Kimberly J. Naujock

Doctoral students' learning experience in qualitative research design course - Yali Zhao
Examining focus group interactions from a conversation analytical perspective - Anna Liljestrom & Kathy Roulston

No epidurals in the parking lot: A qualitative study of Bradley Method Childbirth education experiences - Deena C. McKinney
Nursing education at Park View Hospital from 1939 to 1969 - Patty Collins

The impact of gentrification on women who are older - Lesa Nitcy Hope

Research and advocacy: Medical discourses on infertility in Bulgaria and women's collective resistance - Irina L.G. Todorova

Murder at school: Senseless violence or logical consequence - Beverly Dent

1 hour panel Challenges and rewards of a marginalized group in American social science programs: Chinese graduate students' learning experiences - Lin Lin

1 hour roundtables "Telling tales": Storytelling as a methods to bridge contact zones - Janet A. Grochowksi & Meg Wilkes Karraker

Visual and non-visual content analysis in naturalistic cultural environments: Chinatown, New York City - Nisha Fernando

11:45-1:15 Lunch at the Georgia Center Banquet Area
Keynote Address: Dr. Shuaib Meacham
From Frederick Douglass to Tupac: "Fugitive Literacy" and its Insights for Inquiry and Academic Identity

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