Page continually under construction: Last updated Nov 6th, 2006.

Materials relevant to classes, July 11th-13th 2006

• Vaclav Harvel: The End of the modern era, NYT 1992
• Intro to Shotter (1993) Conversational Realities
• Accountability: accounts versus theories, from Shotter (1984)
• Grammatical persons: 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-persons, from Shotter (1984)
• Mills, C.W. (1940) Situated actions and vocabularies of motive
• Scott, M. & Lyman, S. (1968) Accounts

Materials relevant to classes 24th-28th Oct, 2006:

• Lecture one: The Rhetoric of Quantification
• Lecture two: Conversational Analysis (CA) Basics
• Lecture three: Ethnomethodology I
• Lecture four: Ethnomethodology II
• Lecture five: Writing science... achieving objectivity and ‘interestingness’ in science and everyday life

Additional materials relevant to this session:

• "The Long Zoom" -article from The New York Times, 8th Oct, 2006


• Gail's action research power point

Notes and handouts relevant to classes 24th-28th Oct, 2006:

• Practical-descrptive theory: 'accounts' or 'portrayls' as guides to perception (against explanatory theory)
• The Dreyfus's account of developing from a beginner to an expert
• Celia Hunt's paper on: "Autobiographical Creative Writing as a Tool for Enhancing Consciousness and Reflexivity of Self"

• Mundane realism and practical-descriptive theory in a psychology of everyday life from "Social Accountability and Selfhood"(1984, pp.24-30)

KCC Foundational Research Ethics Proposal Form and Guidance Notes:

• Click here to download an MSWord version

Additional materials relevant to the whole course:

• Some useful quotes from Wittgenstein
• Paper: “Wittgenstein and his philosophy of beginnings and beginnings and beginnings”
• The general character of Wittgenstein's philosophy
• Wittgenstein's grammatical studies and his methods
• Joint action, dialogically-structured relations, chiasmic relations, and entanglement
• Some notes by Arlene Katz and John Shotter on: “Social poetics as a relational practice: creating resourceful communities”
• Goffman (1967) on "involvement obligations"

• Some notes the themes in Vico's "New Science" (Scienza Nuova), of 1744,
• Some quotations from Vico's "New Science" (Scienza Nuova), of 1744,
• Some useful quotes from Vygotsky
• Some notes on and quotes from, G.H. Mead's (1934) Mind, Self, and Society

• Some useful quotes from Wittgenstein
• Some useful quotes from Vygotsky
• Some useful quotes from Bakhtin
• Bakhtin's theory of the utterance



• Klaus Krippendorff (1995) Undoing Power, in Critical Studies in Mass Communication 12, 2: 101-132 -- to see "power" as undoable is also, of course, to see it as something we do in our relations with each other in the first place.



• "After Managerialism" by Theodore Taptiklis of The Storymaker Foundation of Narrative Knowledge, NZ - in E:CO, Volume 7, Issues 3-4, pages 2-14, 2005