Thursday, November 01, 2007

Qualitative Inquiry: Philosophical Foundations and Disciplinary Trajectories

Greg Dimitriadis, who is currently Associate Professor in Educational Leadership and Policy at Buffalo presented at the PostGrad Cafe on 23rd May 2007. His research interests include critical ethnography, urban education, educational policy, popular culture, cultural studies and postcolonial music, art, and literature. He has published on a range of subjects including hip hop culture and the social groupings of young black American men. For this session he presented "Qualitative Inquiry: Philosophical Foundations and Disciplinary Trajectories". In this brief presentation, he gestured towards some of the key philosophical concepts and traditions central to the various theories, approaches, and strategies of qualitative inquiry. I then
highlighted how these concepts and traditions have unfolded in the disciplines of sociology and anthropology over time and place. Finally, Greg discussed how "qualitative inquiry" has emerged as a trans-disciplinary meta-discourse now driving research across many
different (often so-called "professional") disciplines and schools.

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