Friday, August 31, 2007
O.K. I've thought about my inquiry project and about something that has personal value to me and could perhaps add insight at a later time. I am going to do a search and study in two parts, the first part is a comprehensive look at the Kemerovo region of Eastern Russia, or Siberia. I want to study culture, why people were/are there, lifestyles and some generalities of the population. The second part will be an in-depth dive into fetal-alcohol syndrome, and a look at RAD, reactive attachment disorder. Of my four children, whom I love fiercely, two are biological brothers from this region. I have been lucky enough to have become their "papa" for two and a half years. Some of it has been difficult and I want to know as much as possible when the time comes and they are curious about their past. So the Russia study is for them, the other is for me as I see my sons develop at a vastly different rate than my biological children. I'm hoping to find information that will ease my mind about the struggles they have, or to accept those and teach them to deal with them. The search begins.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
August 30th, 2007
Well this is something entirely new to me. I often have long meaningful conversations with myself, but I have yet to write any of it down. I am doing this for a class I am taking at Indiana University. I am supposed to record my thoughts as I think about a project that involves some type of personal inquiry. Something I am curious about, that has some meaning or value to me. At this point I have an idea of what I may want to study. I have yet to decide how to narrow my topic. I do feel better having a very broad idea of what I want to my project to entail. I'll let you know what I came up with later. I might want to say here that the fancy definition of inquiry as quoted in Callison and Preddy’s The Blue Book is, “the process for formulating appropriate research questions, organizing the search for data, analyzing and evaluating the data found, and communicating the results in a coherent presentation.” (2006, pg. 225) While it sounds teacher-speak to me, I don't know if I understand what my final product should be.
Well this is something entirely new to me. I often have long meaningful conversations with myself, but I have yet to write any of it down. I am doing this for a class I am taking at Indiana University. I am supposed to record my thoughts as I think about a project that involves some type of personal inquiry. Something I am curious about, that has some meaning or value to me. At this point I have an idea of what I may want to study. I have yet to decide how to narrow my topic. I do feel better having a very broad idea of what I want to my project to entail. I'll let you know what I came up with later. I might want to say here that the fancy definition of inquiry as quoted in Callison and Preddy’s The Blue Book is, “the process for formulating appropriate research questions, organizing the search for data, analyzing and evaluating the data found, and communicating the results in a coherent presentation.” (2006, pg. 225) While it sounds teacher-speak to me, I don't know if I understand what my final product should be.
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