Dissertation

Leadership: absence of sufficient “champion”, consistent “goal” advocacy, efforts

Structural frame suggests that we view organizations as rational devices whose purpose is to achieve specific goal. (~ assumes actions occurs on the basis of formal goals and standardized technical procedure)

Institutional: look at the meanings people attach to it, individual values (more)

Inevitable conflicts over the limited resources based on coalition stakeholder’s agenda and interests. Used in a political fashion…

It suggests that organizations are places where individuals and groups seek to obtain power and resources to promote their own interest reminds us of the need of organizations to maintain legitimacy by reflecting deeply embedded values with their boundaries and within the environments…

It is insufficient to help understand my data.

This study examine the decision making

A case of bringing Chinese language to a school district…it intends to understand its organizational factors, barriers or facilitator embracing these efforts.

Theoretically language ecology theory helps us understand specifically according to Cooper.

To advance the field we bring it to American K-12, to understand of Chinese as a species and its three stages of planning to three perspectives of organization theory.

The intent of this study was to examine specific decision making process to gain an understanding of what happened in the context of the process, a specific process/case of school district

Given much expectations and efforts in expanding Chinese language teaching in American public high schools…

We begin trying to figure out why Chinese not migrate…

我的方法（去subjectivity）

给一个详尽的关于context的描述

Frame我的interview的问题

Value to add Chinese in

What’s the possibility of adding?

What it will take?

Rhetorical

Representing

Analyzing

Asking questions

*(Sensitizing) what’s going on here?

*(theoretical) if this what should I expect next?

*practical, guiding

地方大学的professional,what frustrate, through the interaction

美国教育体制中的“地方把持”的特色

Centural office of school districts and high school, took the leadership

Teachers motivated and support

When the unsatisfactory result of the school board, it turned in a enrichment class by the faculty’s creativity

State的帮助州里应该给出相应的指导
language 的priority, community survey
Structure: pedagogy, technology, comprehensive curriculum

好好地围绕research question 设计interview的点，protocol
记笔记，写感想, transcribe如实记录

然后分析meaning units

一环扣一环

读大量的文献修课，知识信息的收集。修的每一门课

本领域知识体系的建立，找到自己的slice of pizza

找到自己的兴趣和长处，敏感点，热点并且sexy

做质性研究：一个有意思的case做访谈，之前的protocol 之后的reflection, narrative

之前的课知道这个时候才make sense 再重新返回去看，所以之前一定要neatly的整理。

大概有两个派别：一类偏实践，走进领域里研习很久慢慢地找到点，建立理论，另一类头脑里带着先入的理论构架，然后进入field收集数据（各种手段，哪怕是一个小剪报，小纸片）一般为采访，当地的报纸，blog，大型事件的录像。

要注意处理信息的手段。彩色的文件夹，电脑里的folder的建立

这时候开始可以有产出，主要是先写下来（要憋着，否则就没那股想往外倒的劲儿，或是说的时候录音）

写introduction ch1, ch2, ch3 一般就可以写conceptual paper，然后可以开会、投稿，这是要不断地有反馈，expose 各种渠道可以知道相关信息，不断和朋友，教授讨论疑惑点keep rolling