How active engagement, curiosity, and lived experience in Tanzania are reshaping my understanding of education and research By: Fleur Van Buuren This summer has shown me that qualitative research is much more than gathering information through articles and reports, it is much more personal. For me, taking an active role in data collections has meantContinue reading “Qualitative Research in the Field”
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Research, Reflection, and Returning Home
Wrapping up my time in Florence while looking ahead to the next chapter of my Capstone. By: Madalynn Stackow And just like that, my study abroad experience has come to a close! It is time for me to head back to the United States, rest, and prepare for the upcoming fall semester. As I scrollContinue reading “Research, Reflection, and Returning Home”
Researcher as the Instrument
By: Grace Redmond Even though my Global Scholars project is a survey study rather than a purely qualitative one, the idea that everything is filtered through the researcher has stayed with me. I’ve come to see that “the instrument” isn’t only about interpreting interview transcripts, but about every judgment call I make in shaping, gathering,Continue reading “Researcher as the Instrument”
Looking at UnCharitable Through a Different Lens
By: Julia Pieri Before this summer, I probably would have watched UnCharitable, agreed with most of its points, and moved on. After spending six weeks in Florence researching nonprofit organizations, I found myself watching it very differently. Instead of simply accepting what the documentary was saying, I was constantly comparing its arguments to the organizations IContinue reading “Looking at UnCharitable Through a Different Lens”
If not you, then who?
Be part of the change you want to see By: Noraly Paul The Film I watched Facing the Future: South Florida vs. Climate Change which was a one hour film created here in South Florida in order to bring awareness to the catastrophic events and lived realities of residents here because of climate change. There is noContinue reading “If not you, then who?”
Research Rabbit Holes: The Angeli del Fango
Thankfully this wasn’t an “Alice in Wonderland” kind of rabbit hole. By: Kathryn O’Connor Ciao tutti! As the fall semester draws ever nearer, I only have two more blogs to write for my summer experience (this being one of them). Things on my end have slowed down quite a bit, so I wanted to doContinue reading “Research Rabbit Holes: The Angeli del Fango”
Community and Purpose
The power of mobilization By: Parini Mehta I am writing this sitting in an airport terminal, awaiting a flight that just doesn’t seem to be coming and for the first time in two months, I am all alone. Travelling to India, I was with my mom. I arrived and was immediately greeted by my grandparents.Continue reading “Community and Purpose”
The Girls We’re Trained Not to See
Knowledge Day 5 By: Na’Riyah McKinney I’ve spent this whole summer chasing one question: how policies quietly reshape the lives of Black women without ever naming them. Most days that story hides in bill text and budget lines, and I have to go digging for it. Then I watched Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls inContinue reading “The Girls We’re Trained Not to See”
Peru and Me
Global Scholars Blog 5 – Free Prompt By: Janna Lellis I would say I’m a well-traveled person. Having spent some time living in the United States and Japan, traveling back to The Philippines to visit my family often, and being a military child…foreign environments do not scare me. Since I was a kid, I haveContinue reading “Peru and Me”
A Look into my Research
By: Tessa Wiegand Throughout my time so far on the island of Utila, Honduras, I have began to understand the value of obtaining qualitative research rather than quantitative. As they are very different, each can play different roles in and hold their own value in data collection. With my research, I am able to gatherContinue reading “A Look into my Research”
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