It is sometimes difficult to find the right method of studying people in a place, especially when you are trying to collect something sensitive, intagible, and variable as cultural values. The best way to start, however, is to understand what tool kit or palette of techniques are available, and what works best in diverse fieldwork situation.
As researchers, we have had to decide what would work best in a range of settings and have adapted our methods to fit the specific site and problem.
Sometimes it was as simple as turning what was to be a focus group into a group interview when surrounded by a group of excited pre- teens or reworking an interview into a transect walk or bicycle ride with people on the move or exercising in a park.
The everyday circumstances of fieldwork make it necessary to be flexible and often creative when faced with problems such as people who don't want to talk.
Monday, December 5, 2011
pgs 101-126
Public urban beaches are places where more socially and culturally diverse populations encounter one anotherwhile engaging in a great variety of activities. In federal parks the government is required by law to cunsult the public and to consider the viability of cultural groups' life ways when managing and making major changes in a park.
Sea Shore parks play important roles in the continuity of cultural practices of a number of urban communuties ; they also support social sustainability and fortify democratic processes.
Yet, little has been written about the cultural ecologyof urban beaches.When beaches are discussed in scholary works, the focus is on the natural ecology of beaches, tourism, real estate value, and development Little is known about how beaches function as social places and as parts of the urban landscape.
Sea Shore parks play important roles in the continuity of cultural practices of a number of urban communuties ; they also support social sustainability and fortify democratic processes.
Yet, little has been written about the cultural ecologyof urban beaches.When beaches are discussed in scholary works, the focus is on the natural ecology of beaches, tourism, real estate value, and development Little is known about how beaches function as social places and as parts of the urban landscape.
pgs 69-100
In 1994 the public space research group was asked by the national park service to find out what local residents thought about building a bridge from liberty state park in new jersey to ellis island.Ellis island was the federal immigration station for the port of new york from 1892 to 1954. More than 12 million immigrants were processed there , and over 40 percent of all US citizens can trace their ancestry to those who came through the facility. In its early years , when the greatest number of immigrants arrived , Ellis island represented an open door policy to the growingcultural diversity in the USA .
After the passage of restrictive immigration laws in the 1920's, however, it became a place of assembly and often detainment.
Immigrants were required to pass a series of medical and legal examinations before they were allowed to enter, and those who could not pass the tests were deported.
After the passage of restrictive immigration laws in the 1920's, however, it became a place of assembly and often detainment.
Immigrants were required to pass a series of medical and legal examinations before they were allowed to enter, and those who could not pass the tests were deported.
pgs 37-68
In their sociability and informal layout, places of working class recreation continue to resemble the vernacular weekend resort, that lay out side every nineteenth century american town. This was an open space with trees, fields, and water at hand, used informally for recreational gatherings by the towns people on sunday afternoons.
Although such places have yielded to urbanization and to the evolution of leisure time activity, parts of brooklyn's Prospect park seem much like the old grove.
For instance, on the peninsula lies a pleasant field of two or three acres bordering the lake on one side and a placid stream on the other. A dirt path menders along the shore toward the woods beyond the field.
Families gather for picnics under the trees or to sit and look out at the water. Men and boys fish, young people play ball and children ride their bikes.
Although such places have yielded to urbanization and to the evolution of leisure time activity, parts of brooklyn's Prospect park seem much like the old grove.
For instance, on the peninsula lies a pleasant field of two or three acres bordering the lake on one side and a placid stream on the other. A dirt path menders along the shore toward the woods beyond the field.
Families gather for picnics under the trees or to sit and look out at the water. Men and boys fish, young people play ball and children ride their bikes.
Monday, November 28, 2011
project pg 10
It is optional to participate in Fountain House. It is important to be self motivated, since it is thus that one's work in the club house is meaningful. As a member you have rights and obligations as such. You choose the device you want to work and the employee that you would rather talk and colloberate.
You select themselves into the tasks you think you can take responsibility for large and small. depending on how you feel.
Members and staff participate in an equal partnership in solving the daily running of the house such as to administer, maintain the house, cook, receiving guests, community etc. Furthermore two members sits of the board and a member participating in job interviews.
Equal worth is not that we must have the same performance and similar roles. but everyone is an important part of the pulse in fountain house.
You select themselves into the tasks you think you can take responsibility for large and small. depending on how you feel.
Members and staff participate in an equal partnership in solving the daily running of the house such as to administer, maintain the house, cook, receiving guests, community etc. Furthermore two members sits of the board and a member participating in job interviews.
Equal worth is not that we must have the same performance and similar roles. but everyone is an important part of the pulse in fountain house.
project pg 9
The clubhouse is used mentoring principle, where you often work in pairs, where a more experienced support and train a less experienced. This increases confidence and self-esteem and the opportunity for personal development in both sides.
This means that you will be able to to take more responsibility . But assuming responsibility that extends beyond one self. This makes accountability in a sense disabled. You obtain a special signifigance.
Helping not only one self , helping others. An important part of life is indeed to pass something onto the benefit of others.
Important principles in daily life in fountain house. The work builds on the following fundemental principles
Volunteering
Equality
participation
use of resources
This means that you will be able to to take more responsibility . But assuming responsibility that extends beyond one self. This makes accountability in a sense disabled. You obtain a special signifigance.
Helping not only one self , helping others. An important part of life is indeed to pass something onto the benefit of others.
Important principles in daily life in fountain house. The work builds on the following fundemental principles
Volunteering
Equality
participation
use of resources
project pg 8
It is in working together, we break down the traditional roles, and this is where the members' sense of responsibility, participation and self-esteem builds up. The work- life trains members through daily routines , responsibility meeting the precision, concentration and ability to form social relationships.
Everyday life in a clubhouse built on a community where one is expected, wanted and needed. Fountain House model focuses on the work- life. Focus is on work, but it is also the relationships that grow through the working community, which has a central role.
In close cooperation occurs close relationships and we get to learn about each other. Through their work does one go about something that is both beneficial to one self and others.
Everyday life in a clubhouse built on a community where one is expected, wanted and needed. Fountain House model focuses on the work- life. Focus is on work, but it is also the relationships that grow through the working community, which has a central role.
In close cooperation occurs close relationships and we get to learn about each other. Through their work does one go about something that is both beneficial to one self and others.
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