Event Title

Obviations about Critical Qualitative Research in Long-term Dementia Care

Start Date

5-10-2011 10:45 AM

End Date

5-10-2011 11:45 AM

Abstract

This presentation describes a dissertation project about to begin. It outlines briefly the rationale for critically examining the culture of dementia care knowledge in a long‐term care setting, then describes the methodological framework that is proposed to catalyze the transformation of participants’ perspectives of dementia care knowledge. As this critical ethnography gets underway, the student‐researcher pauses to consider lessons learned and lessons needed in enacting critical qualitative research.

As such, this presentation will be of interest: to scholars faced with tricky ethical issues such as (not) observing nonconsenters and of interviewing people with dementia; to theory geeks who espouse theoretical coherence amid an array of grand, macro, and micro‐level theories of knowing; to qualitative data analysts thirsty for some how‐tos; and to those seeking to foster and facilitate innovate spaces for transformative knowledge exchange. The presentation will conclude with wonderings about relationships in the field, multi‐genred re‐presentations of research findings, and the critical nature of political implications.

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Oct 5th, 10:45 AM Oct 5th, 11:45 AM

Obviations about Critical Qualitative Research in Long-term Dementia Care

This presentation describes a dissertation project about to begin. It outlines briefly the rationale for critically examining the culture of dementia care knowledge in a long‐term care setting, then describes the methodological framework that is proposed to catalyze the transformation of participants’ perspectives of dementia care knowledge. As this critical ethnography gets underway, the student‐researcher pauses to consider lessons learned and lessons needed in enacting critical qualitative research.

As such, this presentation will be of interest: to scholars faced with tricky ethical issues such as (not) observing nonconsenters and of interviewing people with dementia; to theory geeks who espouse theoretical coherence amid an array of grand, macro, and micro‐level theories of knowing; to qualitative data analysts thirsty for some how‐tos; and to those seeking to foster and facilitate innovate spaces for transformative knowledge exchange. The presentation will conclude with wonderings about relationships in the field, multi‐genred re‐presentations of research findings, and the critical nature of political implications.