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Agenda for Tuesday 2/20/09. Unit 1: Class 3 Emic and Etic Perspectives. Goals for today. Develop a rhetoric for writing in the public interest Consider ways in which we can begin to enter into communities as outsiders Prime yourselves for your first meetings with community organizations.
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Agenda for Tuesday 2/20/09 Unit 1: Class 3 Emic and Etic Perspectives
Goals for today • Develop a rhetoric for writing in the public interest • Consider ways in which we can begin to enter into communities as outsiders • Prime yourselves for your first meetings with community organizations
Develop a rhetoric for writing in the public interest • Scan the reading from chapter #1 and your notes • Pull from this two new vocabulary words or words of interest to you • We’ll collect these on the board and develop group definitions for them
Methods for entering into communities • What research methods are used to move from and etic to an emic perspective? • What problems, questions, challenges might you anticipate in using these methods? • How might we address these?
Model of First Meeting • Introduce yourself and why you’re interested in working with them • Show that you’ve done initial leg work in getting to know them. • Clarify their needs, clients, and missions. • Describe your skills and hopes. • Ask for any other materials they can offer that help you understand them.
Model of First Meeting, cont.’ • Tips: • Make sure to stay within time limit • Try not to get too detailed or ahead of yourselves • Resist the desire to promise the moon!! • Dress like you mean business but are approachable • Leave contact information of point person
Model of First Meeting, cont.’ • Gathering data and reflecting • After the meeting make sure to have time with the group or individually to make notes, make copies of documents, and compare observations and reflections • Note your personal ease, troubles, concerns in your fieldnotes. • List questions you have for specific people
Readying the first meeting • In your groups, develop a plan for your first meeting with your organization • What will this first meeting accomplish? • Logistics (Who makes the meeting time? When? LN needed?) • Duties for the group members? • How will you gauge success?
Fieldnotes: A Template Names of those present Contact Information Date/Duration of meeting Observations Artifacts and Descriptions Questions/Concerns
Checklist: A Template In this meeting we hope to accomplish: • Introductions • Reaffirm their understanding of the class • Gather a clearer sense of their goals • Explain of our goals • Gather artifacts that help prompt our memory of the meeting and help develop our understanding of the group • Affirm a follow-up time/day
Homework • Make sure to read the next set of readings: Tools for Engagement modules 3 &4. And Chapter 2 (skim samples) • Please complete the exercise in Box 4 on page 73 given anything you know about your organization. • Make sure to meet with your organization by 1/27 • Make sure to post your notes and checklist to Angel