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Date:         Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:03:53 +0100
From:         M Hughes 
Organization: University of Sheffield
Subject: Re: cool cars!
Comments: To: John Bradley 
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Can't help with the Bakhtin John, but I think there is much to gain from a
social constructionist perspective and would recommend Nightingale and
Crombie's (1999) Social Constructionist Psychology: A Critical Analysis of
Theory and Practice-lots of ideas from discursive psychology which, I think
covers similar terrain.
Martin

Quoting John Bradley :

> Our discussion of the cool wall, group sorts and supposed consensus made
> me remember a time a few years ago when I tried to understand the work of
> Bakhtin, who as I understand it, talked about the monologic ? where a
> single voice claims to speak for all, the dialogic, where we hear debating
> voices and heteroglossia - the richness of different voices and
> viewpoints. It seemed to me that Q was a technique to take us beyond the
> monologic and dialogic to a better understanding of the heteroglossia. I
> was limited in my access to Bakhtin by only finding one source in English.
> Does anyone in the group know more about Bakhtin, or has anyone thought
> about his ideas in relation to Q?
> 
> Holquist, M. (Ed) (1981). The dialogic imagination: four essays by M. M.
> Bakhtin. (1934-1935) Austin: University of Texas Press.
> 
> John
> 
> Dr John Bradley
> Head of Inclusion Services
> and Principal Educational Psychologist
> Children & Young People's Services
> Nottinghamshire County Council
> 
> Helen Coombs wrote:
> 
> Not wishing to sound like I have some affinity with Jeremy Clarkson I
> do want to respond to John about group Q sorts.  I teaching Q method
> at Staffs uni to DClinPsy students and when I recently did some
> teaching where I asked to trainees to take a position on the use of
> restraint in services ie I am an OT and I think that adapting
> drinking utensils is the least restrictive alternative with the
> opposite end being most restrictive (... and so on across
> professions) they said to me 'oh no  not another Q sort, every time
> you teach us you get us to consider our position and place ourselves
> as if we are a statement!'.  Interesting - I never realised (until
> then) that I was quite so immersed in Q.  Like Clarkson I often found
> myself wanting to say no, no, no that is the most restrictive, not
> the least.  Unlike Clarkson I resisted the urge.
> 
> Helen
> 
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