A Field-Based Fieldwork Course

Problematizing the Field: Theorizing Spatial Volatility in Ethnographic Fieldwork

The purpose of this paper is to problematize the idea of the ethnographic field that is usually taken for granted in Information Systems (IS) field research. The field is the touchstone of reality which the ethnographer encounters yet it is often thought of something fixed and merely ‘out there’ where the ethnographer goes to conduct the research. However, recent advances in anthropological sch...

Laryngoscopic Fieldwork: A Guide

This paper discusses the issues and requirements associated with linguistic field research using transnasal laryngoscopy. New developments in the portability and robustness of equipment may allow laryngoscopic experiments to be carried out at or near remote sites in the field. Experiments to date have been conducted in hospitals, clinics, or labs, but that has often meant that only speakers who...

A Modified Midcourse Guidance Law Based on Genelarized Collision Course

To fail or not to fail? A course for fieldwork educators.

OBJECTIVE Assigning a failing grade to a student is one of the most important yet problematic responsibilities of a fieldwork educator, for it challenges both personal and professional values. this article describes and evaluates a 1-day course designed to prepare educators for this responsibility. METHOD The course was offered five times in 1989 and 1990 by the Derby School of Occupational T...

Quantum Field Theory Course

Part I. Classical Mechanics 9 0. Intro 9 0.1. Mechanical systems 9 0.2. Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulation 9 1. Lagrangian approach 10 1.1. Manifolds 10 1.2. Differentiation 11 1.3. Calculus of Variations on an interval 11 1.4. Lagrangian reformulation of Newton‘s equation 13 2. Hamiltonian approach 14 2.1. Metrics: linear algebra 14 2.2. The passage to the cotangent vector bundle via the k...