Experiences of Male Eating Disorder
I wrote a piece this month for the online ED magazine, Mirror-mirror.org. Using some of my qualitative analysis of published stories, written by men who have endured disordered eating, I…
Posts Tagged: hermeneutics
The problem with ED research…?
As part of my research into male disordered eating, at the end of last year I read an article: ‘Perceptions of the causes of eating disorders: a comparison of individuals…
Interpretation 3 (Dark Blue Interpretation)
Now I’m busy thinking about interpretation 3 which was originally referred to as ‘Interplay’. – Knocking at the text – the story is asked questions of and answers are sought…
Interpretation 2 (Yellow Interpretation)
Similar to my previous post then, going back over my sixteen stories you’ve sent me has me (re-)evaluating what was previously blogged. Interpretation 2 – Empathic = this is probably…
Defiantly Hermeneutic
What has struck me, from my humble beginnings almost twelve months ago when my call for participants ended, is just how ‘wrong’ the current one size fits all of research…
Interpreting 2011 – the death of Bricolage.
This year began and I was overwhelmed by the feeling that from being ahead (planning to transfer in late 2009) I was now firmly behind on my transfer paper. I…
Interpreting the first 3 years of my research journey. Part 1.
This entry is an attempt to ‘story out’ the first 3 years of my research journey (slightly more actually) which began when I began seriously thinking that it would be…
Bricolage bewilderment
Having read Kincheloe’s (2001 & 2005) articles some time ago I returned to them this week trying to finally finish this write-up only to discover that my understanding has morphed…
Thinking about ‘how’.
In my previous post I was thinking about the stages of hermeneutic work on the texts you guys have sent me. For the last two days I have been thinking…
Eating disorders and men… and away we go.
Well, what a lot of rubbish that last post was about stopping reading. I never managed it. I’m still reading and am now beginning to think I’m obsessed by it….
Time to stop the reading for now.
“To read about… [a number of research methodologies] in order to get to the point of being able to make an informed choice would in all likelihood take longer than…