Barbara Korth
Biographic Data
| ID | 220358 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Korth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Korth |
| SIGNATURE | KORTH B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Critical Reconstruction of Care-in-Action
This paper uses the findings of a critical ethnography studying the interactions of adult colleagues (Korth, 1998) to propose a critical approach to care theory and research. The argument proceeds from Jaggar's (1995) critique of the scholarship on care. Her criticism voices concerns regarding the lack of attention to the justificatory potential of care research/theory and the over-dependence on particularities. This paper provides one set of res…
Gendered interpretations veiled with discourses of the individual
This paper is based on a year-long ethnography of a K-1 class. I report on the way gender was a significant implicit feature of interpreting kids’ everyday classroom activities, like why boys tended to go to the computer center and girls did not. In addition to explicating the gendered interpretations, the paper also discusses the way teachers used de-gendered narratives to explain the classroom activities. Rather than acknowledging gender as a s…
The Leaps of Faith in Social Science
In this paper, the author introduces a post-Meadian concept useful for contemporary ethnography. Emergent ideal types capture the imaginary (that which is not bound to space and time coordinates) in the doing ethnography and making empirical claims (the empirical is considered that which is limited to space and time coordinates). She uses a heuristic device, grounded narrative fictions, as one way of depicting the imaginary for ethnographic audie…
A Reply to Martyn Hammersley
I am persistently struck by how easy it seems in academic discourse to polarize positions and people. Ming-chu Hsu, a graduate student at Indiana University, recently wrote an essay discussing western academic discourse and its propensity to pit people's positions against one another as if this were the sole way to have a legitimate intellectual claim. I have worries about being a participant in an interchange with those rules because I do not, i…
Critical Qualitative Research as Consciousness Raising
In this article, the author explores the critical potential for consciousness raising available when critical researchers and researchees interact about ethnographic texts. A critical ethnography of an elementary constructivist charter school provides the context for this article, which aims to build methodological theory capable of explaining the consciousness-raising potential of critical ethnography and epistemology. The author achieves this b…
Critical Qualitative Research as Consciousness Raising
In this article, the author explores the critical potential for consciousness raising available when critical researchers and researchees interact about ethnographic texts. A critical ethnography of an elementary constructivist charter school provides the context for this article, which aims to build methodological theory capable of explaining the consciousness-raising potential of critical ethnography and epistemology. The author achieves this b…
Gendered interpretations veiled with discourses of the individual
This paper is based on a year-long ethnography of a K-1 class. I report on the way gender was a significant implicit feature of interpreting kids’ everyday classroom activities, like why boys tended to go to the computer center and girls did not. In addition to explicating the gendered interpretations, the paper also discusses the way teachers used de-gendered narratives to explain the classroom activities. Rather than acknowledging gender as a s…
A Critical Reconstruction of Care-in-Action
This paper uses the findings of a critical ethnography studying the interactions of adult colleagues (Korth, 1998) to propose a critical approach to care theory and research. The argument proceeds from Jaggar's (1995) critique of the scholarship on care. Her criticism voices concerns regarding the lack of attention to the justificatory potential of care research/theory and the over-dependence on particularities. This paper provides one set of res…
The Leaps of Faith in Social Science
In this paper, the author introduces a post-Meadian concept useful for contemporary ethnography. Emergent ideal types capture the imaginary (that which is not bound to space and time coordinates) in the doing ethnography and making empirical claims (the empirical is considered that which is limited to space and time coordinates). She uses a heuristic device, grounded narrative fictions, as one way of depicting the imaginary for ethnographic audie…
Critical Qualitative Research as Consciousness Raising
In this article, the author explores the critical potential for consciousness raising available when critical researchers and researchees interact about ethnographic texts. A critical ethnography of an elementary constructivist charter school provides the context for this article, which aims to build methodological theory capable of explaining the consciousness-raising potential of critical ethnography and epistemology. The author achieves this b…
A Reply to Martyn Hammersley
I am persistently struck by how easy it seems in academic discourse to polarize positions and people. Ming-chu Hsu, a graduate student at Indiana University, recently wrote an essay discussing western academic discourse and its propensity to pit people's positions against one another as if this were the sole way to have a legitimate intellectual claim. I have worries about being a participant in an interchange with those rules because I do not, i…
Gendered interpretations veiled with discourses of the individual
This paper is based on a year-long ethnography of a K-1 class. I report on the way gender was a significant implicit feature of interpreting kids’ everyday classroom activities, like why boys tended to go to the computer center and girls did not. In addition to explicating the gendered interpretations, the paper also discusses the way teachers used de-gendered narratives to explain the classroom activities. Rather than acknowledging gender as a s…
The Leaps of Faith in Social Science
In this paper, the author introduces a post-Meadian concept useful for contemporary ethnography. Emergent ideal types capture the imaginary (that which is not bound to space and time coordinates) in the doing ethnography and making empirical claims (the empirical is considered that which is limited to space and time coordinates). She uses a heuristic device, grounded narrative fictions, as one way of depicting the imaginary for ethnographic audie…
A Critical Reconstruction of Care-in-Action
This paper uses the findings of a critical ethnography studying the interactions of adult colleagues (Korth, 1998) to propose a critical approach to care theory and research. The argument proceeds from Jaggar's (1995) critique of the scholarship on care. Her criticism voices concerns regarding the lack of attention to the justificatory potential of care research/theory and the over-dependence on particularities. This paper provides one set of res…
Epistemology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works)