Friday, May 23, 2008

Closing Down

Did anyone else find it mildly disturbing that the center under discussion here was closed before the text was finished? Without the reasons why the center was closed, that act seems to speak volumes about the value of the work done there that I doubt Nelson intended to convey.

2 comments:

Karen Neubauer said...

I agree that some explanation of why the WTC was dismantled would be helpful so that we don't have to guess whether it reflects the center's performance, funding concerns, personnel changes, or a change in the remedial approach to students that drove the clients to Wilson Nelson's version of the center.

tmevans said...

Wilson Nelson co-authored an article in 1998 entitled "Caught in the Paradigm Gap: Qualitative Researchers' Lived Experience and the Politics of Epistemology." I've only skimmed through it so far, but it seems to me to suggest the difficulties she might have encountered in having her qualitative research taken seriously.