[AAACE-NLA] Toward a True Dialogue

[AWilder106@aol.com]

Colleagues--

I guess I better follow up on what I said previously.

Quantitative research is a subheading of qualitative research.Debbie is describing qualitative research.

In teaching, the quality of the relationship between teacher and student is what counts.  Maybe this could be measured by "happy classroom," v "unhappy classroom," but maybe not.  The teacher is the instrument, as in any qualitative research project, where the researcher is the instrument. Debbie knows she is doing the right thing because the student tells her, in many ways.  If she is "off-course," she will make a course correction.

The best example I know of this process is described in the works of Vivian Paley., but be careful, she teaches young children.

I was reading last night some Washington documents put together by people who had never taught...and it showed.  I don't like to be trampled on, professionally,  by people who don't know what they are talking about, it hurts to much, so I have to speak up.  And I really do thank Debbie for speaking up as she did.

Andrea