New Direction for Data Analysis

This morning I met Sarah, my supervisor from the Moray House School of Education and talked about on what I got from my field survey. We began our chat with the analysis of quantitative data which eventually took turn into the analysis of ethnographic data. I have executed an ethnographic research quite unconsciously as I used to go to the school before everybody came and left it after everybody had left. I spent the whole day there observing how the children are interacting with the changed environment, how the teachers are taking classes in the outdoors and above all how the days are spent in the school. I have still quite fresh memories of the day to day life of children in the school which are needed to be transcribed into any media as soon as possible.

The best way might be write it down what comes to my mind. But sometimes writing can take you to completely different direction. What I can do is to talk to myself or some other person (my husband may be) and record it. The most effective way as suggested by my supervisor is to talk in a way of answering some questions that want to know about my experiences in the outdoors.

There can be a whole chapter in my thesis on the ethnographic research methods. Wow! I think that would be great. When I was there I kept something like a journal. Now its time to enrich that. Hoo... Come on Matluba! Lets dive into the memories!

Figure: A page from my journal

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