After meeting with Jim, I began to focus in on the prominence of Maori culture education in New Zealand schools. Almost every classroom I visited had some kind of Maori culture displayed somehow, whether it was a chart of words on the wall, a greeting from the instructor in the native Te Reo language, or […]
Formation: Strategic Essentialism?
Although I wasn’t in Portland last semester, I still heard a lot about the racially charged events that took place on our campus in the fall. Every year since I came to Lewis & Clark there has been some act of hate on our campus, usually following the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies. […]
Text Analysis: Big Words in the Malheur Occupation
After examining the various actors within the Malheur Occupation, we gathered a collection of primary source information to analyze using Voyant Tools. Voyant Tools is a “web-based reading and analysis environment for digital texts,” that makes it possible to produce word clouds and graphical representations of word trends within a certain text. I decided to analyze […]
Identifying Actors
After an analysis-heavy week, we are moving on to actor network analyses. Each one of us contributed a few articles/blog posts/videos to a group Zotero library, and in class we each presented our articles and came up with the main actors. Below is a mind map of our combined actors. We identified the main actors […]
EcoValues and Big Green Words
This past week we went to the lab to learn about how to perform a factor analysis by using Excel and SPSS. We analyzed data collected by the ENVS 220 class in an EcoValues Survey that they administered to their Facebook friends this past fall. There were approximately The whole concept of factor analysis was […]
Concentration Re-Visited
After coming back from New Zealand, I feel like I have a lot more ideas about real-world implications of the use of place-based education. I’m also more aware of using people and professors as resources, for example I keep seeing Prof. Greg Smith’s name come up in discussions of the origins of place-based education, and […]