Tag: Research
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The pilot of a dissertation that might have been
Before there was Becoming Tapestry there was … something else. I had planned on calling the series Faith Adjacent (read idea refresher here) in order to more squarely associate my dissertation podcast as a whole with one of the core intellectual contributions of the project. My tentative plan was to produce a more mixed-genre series…
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Good stories have conflict. Honest research has plenty.
Chapter 3 feels like the episode that got away from me a bit. At least that’s how I’m still hearing it. Even with good strategies for how to say “no” to a particular idea or piece of tape, I think it was natural that one episode before the big finish would become the repository of…
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Faith-Adjacent Spaces Are Where Religion Intersects Everything Else
If you’ve been following along in the story of my dissertation research, you’re probably enjoying getting to know Tapestry and their model for “starting with the work” in order to be and to become a community. But if you’re like me, or even like Tapestry’s co-directors as their organization has developed, then it might be…
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On the power of bonus episodes
When you write your dissertation as a podcast, there isn’t a great way to do footnotes. I do have some footnotes in my manuscript, at my committee’s suggestion. But I didn’t make any effort to register them in the audio episodes. Basically, I decided people who would care about footnotes would be willing to do…
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How I’m reading more – and maybe better
I read a paper in my cognition class a couple years back that kinda blew my mind. In “How a Cockpit Remembers Its Speeds,” Edwin Hutchins makes the argument that a whole bunch of representational technology helps a flight crew “think” as a single system. The cognition in this system is socially shared and spatially distributed across the…
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Interview training resource: Learning to ask good questions
When you listen with curiosity to people talking about work they love, they get positively radiant. Crazy but wonderful day here in the research trenches at @TeachersCollege. — Kyle Matthew Oliver (@kmoliver) March 8, 2018 Interviewing people is kind of amazing, right? I’m inspired by journalists shining a light on our fraying democracy, researchers discovering…