FQS-Newsletter September 2006

Dear All,

I would like to inform you that FQS 7(4)—"Qualitative Research in Ibero America" (http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt4-06-e.htm), edited by César A. Cisneros Puebla, Daniel Domínguez Figaredo, Robert Faux, Carlos Koelbl & Martin Packer—is available online (see http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/rubriken-e.htm for former issues).

In addition to articles relating to qualitative research in Ibero America, the 23rd FQS issue provides selected single contributions (on identity politics of qualitative research, ethnic identity, cross language qualitative research, and a comparison of four interview techniques), contributions belonging to the FQS Debates "Quality of Qualitative Research" and "Qualitative Research and Ethics", as well as articles belonging to FQS Reviews, and FQS Conferences. Topics the latter are dealing with are f.e. qualitative (developmental) psychology, biographical research, the use of diaries, and secondary analysis.

FQS 7(4) Qualitative Research in Ibero America
Inside FQS: New Debate on Teaching and Learning Qualitative Methods
Conferences and Workshops
Links
Open Access News

Enjoy reading!

Katja Mruck

A) FQS 7(4) QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN IBERO AMERICA

http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt4-06-e.htm English
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-d/inhalt4-06-d.htm German
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-s/inhalt4-06-s.htm Spanish

César A. Cisneros Puebla (Mexico), Daniel Domínguez Figaredo (Spain), Robert Faux (USA), Carlos Koelbl (Germany) & Martin Packer (USA): Editorial: About Qualitative Research Epistemologies and Peripheries
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-4-e.htm

Autobiographical, Historical, and Current Perspectives

Miguel S. Valles Martínez (Spain): Pathfinding in the World of Qualitative Social Research—From the Iberian Peninsula between the Second and Third Millennium: A Personal Testimonial
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-16-e.htm

Jorge Larreamendy-Joerns, Juanita Henao & Alexandra Arango (Colombia): Emergence of Qualitative Research in Colombian Psychology: A Beginning that Still Does not End
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-31-e.htm

Antonio Bolívar & Jesús Domingo (Spain): Biographical and Narrative Research in Iberoamerica: Areas of Development and Current Situation
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-12-e.htm

Elsa M. González y González & Yvonna S. Lincoln (USA): Decolonizing Qualitative Research: Non-traditional Reporting Forms in the Academy
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-1-e.htm

Approaches and Methods

Roberto Fernández Droguett (Chile): Qualitative Research and Critical Social Psychology in Chile Today: Situation Knowledge and Political Action
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-38-e.htm

Olga Lucia Obando Salazar (Colombia): Participant Action Research in Political, Psychological, and Gender Studies
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-3-e.htm

Hélene Laperriere (Canada): Evaluative Research in the Contexts of Sociopolitical and Sociocultural Movements: Methodological Challenges and the Urgency of Public Health Actions in Remote Regions
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-6-e.htm

Ana Cristina Loureiro Alves Jurema, Maria de Lourdes Correia Pimentel, Telma de Santa Clara Cordeiro & Ana Gabriela Austregésilo Nepomuceno (Brazil): Disclosing the Making of Phenomenological Research: Setting Free the Meanings of Discourse
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-7-e.htm

Roland Terborg (Mexico): The "Ecology of Pressures" in the Shift of an Indigenous Language to Spanish. The Presentation of a Model
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-39-e.htm

Paulino Murillo Estepa & Mariana Altopiedi (Spain): Institutional Processes of School Improvement from a Narrative Point of View
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-14-e.htm

Areas of Investigation

Francisco Osorio (Chile): The Effects of Computer Assisted Research on Chilean Academics
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-35-e.htm

Carmen de la Cuesta Benjumea (Colombia/Spain): "Here we all are Caregivers": Issues of Collectivity versus Individuality in a Study of Home Care-giving of Patients with Advanced Dementia
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-5-e.htm

Melissa Marzán Rodríguez & Nelson Varas Díaz (Puerto Rico): The Difficulties of Feeling: The Role of Emotions in the Stigmatization of HIV/AIDS
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-2-e.htm

José Gutiérrez Pérez & M. Teresa Pozo Llorent (Spain): Using Qualitative Indicators of Sustainability in Iberoamerican Environmental Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-33-e.htm

Single Contributions

Pascal Dey & Julia Nentwich (Switzerland): The Identity Politics of Qualitative Research. A Discourse Analytic Inter-text
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-28-e.htm

Feng-Bing (China): Deconstructing Ethnic Identity of Chinese Children in Northern Ireland
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-29-e.htm

Raymond Opdenakker (The Netherlands): Advantages and Disadvantages of Four Interview Techniques in Qualitative Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-11-e.htm

Bogusia Temple, Rosalind Edwards & Claire Alexander (UK): Grasping at Context: Cross Language Qualitative Research as Secondary Qualitative Data Analysis
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-10-e.htm

FQS Debate: "Quality of Qualitative Research"

Michael Agar (USA): An Ethnography By Any Other Name ...
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-36-e.htm

Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada): But Does "Ethnography By Any Other Name" Really Promote Real Ethnography?
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-37-e.htm

Michael Agar (USA): Response to Wolff-Michael Roth, "But Does 'Ethnography By Any Other Name' Really Promote Real Ethnography?'"
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/deb/06-4-D1Agar-e.htm

Norbert Groeben (Germany): Are There Ways out of the Self-inflicted Irrelevance of the Qualitative Off-stream?
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-34-e.htm

FQS Debate: "Qualitative Research and Ethics"

Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada): Ethical Issues when Teaching Praxis is Coextensive with Qualitative Research Praxis—An Introduction
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-17-e.htm

Jennifer Gallo-Fox, Beth Wassell, Kathryn Scantlebury & Matthew Juck (USA): Warts and All: Ethical Dilemmas in Implementing the Coteaching Model
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-18-e.htm

Ed Lehner (USA): Creating Collaborative Third-space Discourse to Address Contradictions in Coteaching
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-19-e.htm

Colette Murphy & Jim Beggs (UK): Addressing Ethical Dilemmas in Implementing Coteaching
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-20-e.htm

Stephen M. Ritchie (Australia): Ethical Considerations for Teacher-Education Researchers of Coteaching
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-21-e.htm

Ian Stith (Canada): Responsibility and Coteaching: A Review of Warts and All
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-22-e.htm

Jennifer Gallo-Fox, Matthew Juck, Kathryn Scantlebury & Beth Wassell (USA): Repositioning Warts & All: A Response to Coteaching Researchers
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-23-e.htm

Christopher Emdin (USA): Beyond Coteaching: Power Dynamics, Cosmopolitanism and the Psychoanalytic Dimension
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-27-e.htm

FQS Reviews

Lars Allolio-Naecke (Germany): Potentials and Limits of Qualitative Research in Developmental Psychology. Review Essay: Guenter Mey (Ed.) (2005). Handbuch Qualitative Entwicklungspsychologie [Handbook of Qualitative Developmental Psychology]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-8-e.htm

Birgit Griese (Germany): Review: Werner Fuchs-Heinritz (2005). Biographische Forschung. Eine Einfuehrung in Praxis und Methoden [Biographical Research: An Introduction to Practical and Methodical Basics]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-26-e.htm

Lena Heine (Germany): Strategy Use and Think-aloud Protocols: How L2-Learners Process Text Comprehension Tasks in a Foreign Language. Review Essay: Nicola Wuerffel (2006). Strategiengebrauch bei Aufgabenbearbeitungen in internetgestuetztem Selbstlernmaterial [The Application of Strategies in the Processing of Internet-based Self-study Tasks]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-30-e.htm

Andrea Kleeberg-Niepage (Germany): Review: Psychologie & Gesellschaftskritik (2005). Heft 3/4 2005: "Psychologien" [Psychologies]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-32-e.htm

Dirk vom Lehn (UK): Review: Joerg Struebing (2005). Pragmatistische Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung. Theorie und Methode. [Pragmatist Science and Technology Research: Theory and Method]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-24-e.htm

Shalva Weil (Israel): Review: Andy Alaszewski (2006). Using Diaries for Social Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-25-e.htm

Till Westermayer (Germany): Review: Matthias Gross, Holger Hoffmann-Riem und Wolfgang Krohn (2005). Realexperimente. Oekologische Gestaltungsprozesse in der Wissensgesellschaft [Real Experiments. Ecological Design Processes in the Knowledge Society]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-13-e.htm

FQS Conferences

Magdalini Dargentas (France): Conference Essay: Secondary Analysis in Qualitative Research—Utopia and Perspectives
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-9-e.htm

Leo Guertler & Silke-Birgitta Gahleitner (Germany): Conference Report: Sixth Annual Meeting of Qualitative Psychology "Generalization in Qualitative Psychology"
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-21-e.htm

B) INSIDE FQS: NEW DEBATE

We just started a new FQS Debate on "Teaching and Learning Qualitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences", edited by Margrit Schreier, Franz Breuer and Wolff-Michael Roth: see http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/debate-4-e.htm for additional information (for access to all FQS debates see http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/debate-e.htm).

C) CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

20-22 October, Riga, Latvia
Workshop "Qualitative Psychology in the Changing Academic Context", organised by the Center for Qualitative Psychology, University of Tuebingen, Germany
http://www.qualitative-psychologie.de/

18-20 April 2007, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
CAQDAS 07 Conference: Advances in Qualitative Computing
http://caqdas.soc.surrey.ac.uk/conference/conference07.htm

2-5 May 2007, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Third International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry "Qualitative Inquiry and the Politics of Evidence"
http://www.qi2007.org/

19-22 July 2007, University of East London, UK
International Conference "Cultural Studies Now"
http://www.uel.ac.uk/culturalstudiesnow/

See http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/conferences-coming-e.htm (English) and http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/conferences-coming-d.htm (German) for additional Conference Announcements.

D) LINKS

Social Science Gateway (SOSIG) has merged with INTUTE, a free online service providing access to web resources for education and research, based in UK
http://www.intute.ac.uk/

Transana, a free software for the transcription and qualitative analysis of digital video or audio data
http://www.transana.org/

Independent Evaluators' Webring
http://www.evaluators-webring.net/

Internet Philosopher, a tutorial in the Virtual Training Suite
http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/he/tutorial/philosophy

E) OPEN ACCESS NEWS

DRIVER: Networking European Scientific Repositories
http://www.driver-repository.eu/

The BOAI Self-Archiving FAQ (http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/) is now also available in Russian, see http://socionet.ru/docs/self-archiving-FAQ-ru.htm

The American Physical Society (APS) is to extend open access to all its journals
http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2164046/aps-extends-open

Conferences

18-20 October, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Open Scholarship 2006: New Challenges for Open Access Repositories
http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/openscholarship/registration.html

27-28 November, Minho University, Braga, Portugal
Open Access Conference
http://www.sdum.uminho.pt/confOA/index_en.htm

23-26 January 2007, San Antonio, Texas
Second International Conference on Open Repositories
http://openrepositories.org/

18-20 April 2007, Geneva, Switzerland
5th Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication at CERN (OAI5)
http://cern.ch/oai5

13-15 June 2007, Vienna, Austria
11th International Conference on Electronic Publishing: Openness in Digital Publishing: Awareness, Discovery and Access
http://www.elpub.net/

Texts

Australian Government/Department of Education, Science and Training (2006): Research communication costs in Australia: Emerging opportunities and benefits
http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/...

Economos, Judith & Harnad, Stevan (2006): Publish or Perish
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/publish-or-perish.pdf

Hutcheon, Linda (2006): What Open Access Could Mean for the Humanities
http://open.utoronto.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=389&Itemid=66

Scholze, Frank (2006): DINI Institutional Repository Certification and Beyond—Open Access Activities in Germany
http://elib.uni-stuttgart.de/opus/doku/veranstaltungen/sindos14-09-06.pdf

Journals/Newsletter

Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org/

Directory of Open Access Repositories
http://www.opendoar.org/

First Monday, 11(9)
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_9/

Medical Sociology Online, newly launched (formerly Medical Sociology News)
http://www.britsoc.co.uk/publications/MSOnline.htm

Solidarity & Sustainability, Newsletter, September
http://www.pelican-consulting.com/solisustv02n09.html

The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 7(2)
http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/368/642

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