Crystal Cheng

The paper Using children’s drawing as data in child-centred research used the drawing as data when doing the child-centred research. The research emphasized on the merits of this method and how to analyze the data, and the researcher also used existing literatures to complete the study. The participants of the study were street children with no literacy. They were asked to draw their future careers in the study. What does the particular visual research method offers and what it doesn't offer? Firstly, they allow cross-cultural research, since the visual research does not need translation of different languages. Secondly, they are flexible enough to facilitate the broad variation that emerged in the example described. Thirdly, it could combine quantitative and qualitative methods together. Finally, both researchers and practitioners could know more about the participants. However, visual research could not solve that severe problems of reliability. Taking this drawing res...

Histories of forgetting, geographies of remembering: Exploring processes of witnessing and performing in senior secondary humanities classroom(s) . 1. What surprised you about this thesis writing? I was surprised by the form of this thesis writing. To be very honest, I felt a little bit confused about what the author try to explore in this thesis at the beginning, since the author put several kinds of writing, such as narrative, analytical as well as poetic writing styles in one thesis. These kinds of writing are interleaved and play their own role. In addition, the author also quoted some sentences from students in the Indian residential school, so that readers might understand their living conditions deeply and cultivate their sympathy with those kids. 2.What are three ideas you can take away from this to bring to your own research writing? The author mentioned “map” and “border” quite frequently in the thesis. When we are children, we knew little about the world so we fol...