New Themes and Questions
The streamlined and simplified themes and questions . . . .
Theme 1: This field of expertise
Research Question: In the field of out-of-school technological expertise, how is expertise obtained, constructed, understood and performed by teenagers?
Theme 2: The cultural capital of the participants
Research Question: How has cultural capital led these teenagers to develop their expertise, especially in regard to the gendering of technology and expertise?
Theme 3: The habitus of youth culture
Research Question: How does the habitus of youth culture challenge and/or agree with traditional/adult notions of learning and leisure?
posted by Nicola @ 11:22 AM
7 Comments:
Theme 1: This field of expertise
Research Question: In the field of out-of-school technological expertise, how is expertise obtained, constructed, understood and performed by teenagers?
first the wording is a bit clumsy: not sure that out-of=school expertise can be a field: do you just mean out of school leisure?
other than that, i really like the understood, performed and constructed and obtained aspects. it will make a lovely chapter.
Theme 2: The cultural capital of the participants
Research Question: How has cultural capital led these teenagers to develop their expertise, especially in regard to the gendering of technology and expertise?
generally this looks good; i'd probably tweak it a little to be "how has cultural capital shaped the way these teenagers develop/aquire/perform 'expertise' with particular reference to the gendering of their technological performances
Theme 3: The habitus of youth culture
Research Question: How does the habitus of youth culture challenge and/or agree with traditional/adult notions of learning and leisure?
i think there are some good points to be made on this topic. i am not sure if habitus is the right 'focus'; maybe again it is more of a field/habitus combo; but i'm not really sure...this will have to be discussed as you go on.
RE: Theme 1. I agree. It should be out of school leisure as the field.
RE: Theme 2. I agree. I like the 'tweaking' you've suggested.
RE: Theme 3. I think 'habitus' will work. I have on my wall 3 1/2 pages of explanations of habitus. It's so broad that it will work! Habitus and field are like a fish in water. Can't separate the two when the fish is alive!
Just thinking tho that Theme 1 needs to focus on expertise, so if I call it out of school leisure, it won't be focused on expertise.
Res Question is ok tho:
In the field of out of school leisure, how is expertise obtained, constructed, understood and performed by teenagers?
Oops - another correction.
Theme 2 is going to remove the word 'cultural' from the description of capital. Then I can focus on five types of capital (economic, cultural, social, linguistic, and symbolic) which will make for a fuller discussion.
re out of school lesirue expertise etc etc: there is nothing stopping lesiure from being linked to expertise, other than the habitus of folks reading leisure and expertise as opposites (ie expertise is what we have at work...); so i don't think it is a problem
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