Gary+Shank+Presentation

Gary Shank Presentation
3/23/2010
 * Qualitative Research**


 * Gary as the "Ghost of Qualitative Future"
 * Future of Qualitative Research


 * Discussion - Homily - Homily - Parable
 * **B****ook: My Song is of Mercy (//reading pp. 18 - 33)//**
 * The Parables of Jesus (2 men went up to pray a pharyses and a tax collector) **"He who humbles himself will be exhaulted."** "Are we all going to be saved?" (Because the Lord said that all but 1 would be saved... each man left one by one to support the 1)
 * service is wrapping cheese and everything else (with humility)
 * "Do not make too much of what you have done.." (God to the old lady).
 * Father Francis - printing room burned down that he had constructed...
 * Gifts of God - Service comes from a pure heart and joy... This is the greatest love there is..
 * Love is all that matters. We all have love inside.


 * Gary talking about why something like this is so powerful? What does this tell us about qualitative research.
 * Diff. between homily and a sermon: A homily occurs after the Gospel has been read. The homily is the priest's interpretation of the Gospel reading... A sermon is a preaching about theories, etc. convincing people to believe in something specific to a group's values (such as Catholic values), or in the case of research - qualitative values. Sermons are written down, collected and published.


 * Parables are bottomless... The meaning is endless... There is always something new to discover...
 * The more ambiguous... The trickier to get your head around.. The deeper the parable...
 * There is a lot of emphasis on stories in QUALITATIVE RESEARCH.
 * Stories turn out to be parables.
 * There are parables strewn everywhere...
 * Urban legends always have a moral to the story (fables) As such, they are parables..
 * The world of experience is littered and spread upon us with portals...
 * The opposite of the homily is a sermon... The sermon is the model of all quantitative and many qualitative report.


 * Jesus used parables, homilies and sermons...
 * Nobody went to Jesus with Jesus responding "let me tell you a story." Gary: He didn't say, "Here is a rubric, the rules, etc."
 * The world of experience is tied to qualitative research and stories...
 * Too many people in qualitative research are trying to do a sermon...
 * It is a lot more difficult to study beings than objects...
 * Gary: Rubrics are not going to get us anywhere where we think we are going to get...
 * Qualitative research is about being serious between understanding and knowing.... meaning and identity as opposed to structure... and about path and conduct.... than it is about process....


 * Western Universities are grounded in monastic traditions... (Catholic and Christian)
 * What is the direction we are moving away from (when considering that tradition)
 * Human inquiry - Gary writing a book about Purse's idea of genuine doubt ... Purse: "Human beings don't know anything they don't believe. If you don't believe it, there isn't any way you will know it.."
 * Deep fear in the field about legitimacy... If we talk about 94 year-old monks who are doing parables they may not take us seriously in research....

//One of the participants says about// //Lee Schulman://
 * //He doesn't make a distinction between qualitative versus quantitative...//
 * //He says, "make your learning public."//
 * //He says, "learning availble for others to collaborate in..."//