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From:         Tim Deignan 
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.......hi John and Martin.....re Q and Bakhtin, there is a short section in=
 my PhD thesis where I consider Q methodology in relation to Bakhtin's work=
 on polyphony in literature. I draw an analogy with the approach of Q metho=
dology in relation to the struggle between, and the representation of, diff=
erent voices. The analogy is part of an argument I make in the thesis for a=
 more polyphonic approach to the design of education systems and policies:=
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Deignan, T. (2006) Transferable People: Reframing the Object in UK Post Com=
pulsory Education and Training,=20

PhD thesis, University of Manchester. Abstract available from:  at 
http://www.theses.com/idx/scripts/it.asp?xml=3DF:\index\idx\docs\all\56\it
00511678.htm&subfolder=3D/search

best wishes

Tim Deignan
Q user
West Yorkshire
England

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Sent: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:03:53 +0100
From: M Hughes 
To: Q-METHOD@LISTSERV.KENT.EDU
Subject: Re: cool cars!

> 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 thi=
nk
> covers similar terrain.
> Martin
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> Quoting John Bradley :
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> > 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 debat=
ing
> > 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 Engli=
sh.
> > Does anyone in the group know more about Bakhtin, or has anyone thought
> > about his ideas in relation to Q?
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> > Holquist, M. (Ed) (1981). The dialogic imagination: four essays by M. M.
> > Bakhtin. (1934-1935) Austin: University of Texas Press.
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> > John
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> > Dr John Bradley
> > Head of Inclusion Services
> > and Principal Educational Psychologist
> > Children & Young People's Services
> > Nottinghamshire County Council
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> > Helen Coombs wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > Helen
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