Dear All,I would like to inform you that FQS 7(4) -- "Qualitative Research in Ibero America" (http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt4-06-e.htm), edited by César A. Cisneros Puebla, Daniel Domínguez Figaredo, Robert Faux, Carlos Koelbl & Martin Packer -- is available online (see http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/rubriken-e.htm for former issues).
In addition to articles relating to qualitative research in Ibero America, the 23rd FQS issue provides selected single contributions (on identity politics of qualitative research, ethnic identity, cross language qualitative research, and a comparison of four interview techniques), contributions belonging to the FQS Debates "Quality of Qualitative Research" and "Qualitative Research and Ethics", as well as articles belonging to FQS Reviews, and FQS Conferences. Topics the latter are dealing with are f.e. qualitative (developmental) psychology, biographical research, the use of diaries, and secondary analysis.
A) FQS 7(4) Qualitative Research in Ibero America B) Inside FQS: New Debate on Teaching and Learning Qualitative Methods C) Conferences and Workshops D) Links E) Open Access News Enjoy reading! Katja Mruck FQS-Editor ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A) FQS 7(4) QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN IBERO AMERICA http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt4-06-e.htm English http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-d/inhalt4-06-d.htm German http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-s/inhalt4-06-s.htm SpanishCésar A. Cisneros Puebla (Mexico), Daniel Domínguez Figaredo (Spain), Robert Faux (USA), Carlos Koelbl (Germany) & Martin Packer (USA): Editorial: About Qualitative Research Epistemologies and Peripheries
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-4-e.htm *** Autobiographical, Historical, and Current PerspectivesMiguel S. Valles Martínez (Spain): Pathfinding in the World of Qualitative Social Research -- From the Iberian Peninsula between the Second and Third Millennium: A Personal Testimonial
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-16-e.htmJorge Larreamendy-Joerns, Juanita Henao & Alexandra Arango (Colombia): Emergence of Qualitative Research in Colombian Psychology: A Beginning that Still Does not End
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-31-e.htmAntonio Bolívar & Jesús Domingo (Spain): Biographical and Narrative Research in Iberoamerica: Areas of Development and Current Situation
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-12-e.htmElsa M. González y González & Yvonna S. Lincoln (USA): Decolonizing Qualitative Research: Non-traditional Reporting Forms in the Academy
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-1-e.htm *** Approaches and MethodsRoberto Fernández Droguett (Chile): Qualitative Research and Critical Social Psychology in Chile Today: Situation Knowledge and Political Action
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-38-e.htmOlga Lucia Obando Salazar (Colombia): Participant Action Research in Political, Psychological, and Gender Studies
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-3-e.htmHélene Laperriere (Canada): Evaluative Research in the Contexts of Sociopolitical and Sociocultural Movements: Methodological Challenges and the Urgency of Public Health Actions in Remote Regions
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-6-e.htmAna Cristina Loureiro Alves Jurema, Maria de Lourdes Correia Pimentel, Telma de Santa Clara Cordeiro & Ana Gabriela Austregésilo Nepomuceno (Brazil): Disclosing the Making of Phenomenological Research: Setting Free the Meanings of Discourse
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-7-e.htmRoland Terborg (Mexico): The "Ecology of Pressures" in the Shift of an Indigenous Language to Spanish. The Presentation of a Model
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-39-e.htmPaulino Murillo Estepa & Mariana Altopiedi (Spain): Institutional Processes of School Improvement from a Narrative Point of View
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-14-e.htm *** Areas of InvestigationFrancisco Osorio (Chile): The Effects of Computer Assisted Research on Chilean Academics
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-35-e.htmCarmen de la Cuesta Benjumea (Colombia/Spain): "Here we all are Caregivers": Issues of Collectivity versus Individuality in a Study of Home Care-giving of Patients with Advanced Dementia
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-5-e.htmMelissa Marzán Rodríguez & Nelson Varas Díaz (Puerto Rico): The Difficulties of Feeling: The Role of Emotions in the Stigmatization of HIV/AIDS
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-2-e.htmJosé Gutiérrez Pérez & M. Teresa Pozo Llorent (Spain): Using Qualitative Indicators of Sustainability in Iberoamerican Environmental Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-33-e.htm *** Single ContributionsPascal Dey & Julia Nentwich (Switzerland): The Identity Politics of Qualitative Research. A Discourse Analytic Inter-text
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-28-e.htmFeng-Bing (China): Deconstructing Ethnic Identity of Chinese Children in Northern Ireland
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-29-e.htmRaymond Opdenakker (The Netherlands): Advantages and Disadvantages of Four Interview Techniques in Qualitative Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-11-e.htmBogusia Temple, Rosalind Edwards & Claire Alexander (UK): Grasping at Context: Cross Language Qualitative Research as Secondary Qualitative Data Analysis
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-10-e.htm *** FQS Debate: "Quality of Qualitative Research" Michael Agar (USA): An Ethnography By Any Other Name ... http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-36-e.htmWolff-Michael Roth (Canada): But Does "Ethnography By Any Other Name" Really Promote Real Ethnography?
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-37-e.htmMichael Agar (USA): Response to Wolff-Michael Roth, "But Does 'Ethnography By Any Other Name' Really Promote Real Ethnography?'"
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/deb/06-4-D1Agar-e.htmNorbert Groeben (Germany): Are There Ways out of the Self-inflicted Irrelevance of the Qualitative Off-stream?
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-34-e.htm *** FQS Debate: "Qualitative Research and Ethics"Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada): Ethical Issues when Teaching Praxis is Coextensive with Qualitative Research Praxis -- An Introduction
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-17-e.htmJennifer Gallo-Fox, Beth Wassell, Kathryn Scantlebury & Matthew Juck (USA): Warts and All: Ethical Dilemmas in Implementing the Coteaching Model
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-18-e.htmEd Lehner (USA): Creating Collaborative Third-space Discourse to Address Contradictions in Coteaching
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-19-e.htmColette Murphy & Jim Beggs (UK): Addressing Ethical Dilemmas in Implementing Coteaching
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-20-e.htmStephen M. Ritchie (Australia): Ethical Considerations for Teacher-Education Researchers of Coteaching
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-21-e.htm Ian Stith (Canada): Responsibility and Coteaching: A Review of Warts and All http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-22-e.htmJennifer Gallo-Fox, Matthew Juck, Kathryn Scantlebury & Beth Wassell (USA): Repositioning Warts & All: A Response to Coteaching Researchers
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-23-e.htmChristopher Emdin (USA): Beyond Coteaching: Power Dynamics, Cosmopolitanism and the Psychoanalytic Dimension
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-27-e.htm *** FQS ReviewsLars Allolio-Naecke (Germany): Potentials and Limits of Qualitative Research in Developmental Psychology. Review Essay: Guenter Mey (Ed.) (2005). Handbuch Qualitative Entwicklungspsychologie [Handbook of Qualitative Developmental Psychology]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-8-e.htmBirgit Griese (Germany): Review: Werner Fuchs-Heinritz (2005). Biographische Forschung. Eine Einfuehrung in Praxis und Methoden [Biographical Research: An Introduction to Practical and Methodical Basics]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-26-e.htmLena Heine (Germany): Strategy Use and Think-aloud Protocols: How L2-Learners Process Text Comprehension Tasks in a Foreign Language. Review Essay: Nicola Wuerffel (2006). Strategiengebrauch bei Aufgabenbearbeitungen in internetgestuetztem Selbstlernmaterial [The Application of Strategies in the Processing of Internet-based Self-study Tasks]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-30-e.htmAndrea Kleeberg-Niepage (Germany): Review: Psychologie & Gesellschaftskritik (2005). Heft 3/4 2005: "Psychologien" [Psychologies]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-32-e.htmDirk vom Lehn (UK): Review: Joerg Struebing (2005). Pragmatistische Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung. Theorie und Methode. [Pragmatist Science and Technology Research: Theory and Method]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-24-e.htmShalva Weil (Israel): Review: Andy Alaszewski (2006). Using Diaries for Social Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-25-e.htmTill Westermayer (Germany): Review: Matthias Gross, Holger Hoffmann-Riem und Wolfgang Krohn (2005). Realexperimente. Oekologische Gestaltungsprozesse in der Wissensgesellschaft [Real Experiments. Ecological Design Processes in the Knowledge Society]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-13-e.htm *** FQS ConferencesMagdalini Dargentas (France): Conference Essay: Secondary Analysis in Qualitative Research -- Utopia and Perspectives
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-9-e.htmLeo Guertler & Silke-Birgitta Gahleitner (Germany): Conference Report: Sixth Annual Meeting of Qualitative Psychology "Generalization in Qualitative Psychology"
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-21-e.htm B) INSIDE FQS: NEW DEBATEWe just started a new FQS Debate on "Teaching and Learning Qualitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences", edited by Margrit Schreier, Franz Breuer and Wolff-Michael Roth: see http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/debate-4-e.htm for additional information (for access to all FQS debates see http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/debate-e.htm).
C) CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS 20-22 October, Riga, LatviaWorkshop "Qualitative Psychology in the Changing Academic Context", organised by the Center for Qualitative Psychology, University of Tuebingen, Germany
http://www.qualitative-psychologie.de/ 18-20 April 2007, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK CAQDAS 07 Conference: Advances in Qualitative Computing http://caqdas.soc.surrey.ac.uk/conference/conference07.htm 2-5 May 2007, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USAThird International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry "Qualitative Inquiry and the Politics of Evidence"
http://www.qi2007.org/ 19-22 July 2007, University of East London, UK International Conference "Cultural Studies Now" http://www.uel.ac.uk/culturalstudiesnow/See http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/conferences-coming-e.htm (English) and http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/conferences-coming-d.htm (German) for additional Conference Announcements.
D) LINKSSocial Science Gateway (SOSIG) has merged with INTUTE, a free online service providing access to web resources for education and research, based in UK
http://www.intute.ac.uk/Transana, a free software for the transcription and qualitative analysis of digital video or audio data
http://www.transana.org/ Independent Evaluators' Webring http://www.evaluators-webring.net Internet Philosopher, a tutorial in the Virtual Training Suite http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/he/tutorial/philosophy E) OPEN ACCESS NEWS DRIVER: Networking European Scientific Repositories http://www.driver-repository.eu/The BOAI Self-Archiving FAQ (http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/) is now also available in Russian
http://socionet.ru/docs/self-archiving-FAQ-ru.htmThe American Physical Society (APS) is to extend open access to all its journals.
http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2164046/aps-extends-open *** Conferences 18-20 October, University of Glasgow, Scotland Open Scholarship 2006: New Challenges for Open Access Repositories http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/openscholarship/registration.html 27-28 November, Minho University, Braga, Portugal Open Access Conference http://www.sdum.uminho.pt/confOA/index_en.htm 23-26 January 2007, San Antonio, Texas Second International Conference on Open Repositories http://openrepositories.org/ 18-20 April 2007, Geneva, Switzerland 5th Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication at CERN (OAI5) http://cern.ch/oai5 13-15 June 2007, Vienna, Austria11th International Conference on Electronic Publishing: Openness in Digital Publishing: Awareness, Discovery and Access
http://www.elpub.net/ *** TextsAustralian Government/Department of Education, Science and Training (2006): Research communication costs in Australia: Emerging opportunities and benefits
http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/research_sector/policies_issues_reviews/key_issues/australian_research_information_infrastructure_committee/documents/dest_research_communications_cost_report_sept2006_pdf.htm Economos, Judith & Harnad, Stevan (2006): Publish or Perish http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/publish-or-perish.pdf Hutcheon, Linda (2006): What Open Access Could Mean for the Humanities http://open.utoronto.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=389&Itemid=66Scholze, Frank (2006): DINI Institutional Repository Certification and Beyond -- Open Access Activities in Germany
http://elib.uni-stuttgart.de/opus/doku/veranstaltungen/sindos14-09-06.pdf *** Journals/Newsletter Directory of Open Access Journals: http://www.doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Repositories http://www.opendoar.org/ First Monday, 11(9) http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_9/ Medical Sociology Online, newly launched (formerly Medical Sociology News) http://www.britsoc.co.uk/publications/MSOnline.htm Solidarity & Sustainability, Newsletter, September http://www.pelican-consulting.com/solisustv02n09.html The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 7(2) http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/368/642 -- FQS - Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research (ISSN 1438-5627) English -> http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-eng.htm German -> http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs.htm Spanish -> http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-s.htm