Billy’s Notes for Final Project Presentation

Talking Points for slides 1-3

 

Participatory Research

 

Our group is the Participatory Research and Ethnography group… it consists of 3 members, Sarah Haas, Emogene Shadwick and myself – Billy Paretti.

 

Since there isn’t much time, I want to give a quick framework of the presentation and what we want to cover. More specifics to be discussed in the next 10-15 minutes by each of us

 

We have been working with Frank from Globalhood and the young people from Global Potential and Youth Venture for almost 2 months now as a support mechanism for their initiatives in the Dominican Republic…

 

Globalhood…Update on what it is if necessary….. Global Potential provides disadvantaged Brooklyn youth with mentoring, job skills, and the opportunity to volunteer abroad in a developing world community.

 

So we will be presenting

Ø       What our team set out to do with Globalhood

Ø       What are objectives were/are

Ø       How we approached it as a group

 

Slide 8: Projected Analysis

 

Since our objectives were driven by Selling and Teaching, our approach to the analysis of data will take (upon completion) a twofold approach….Qualitative and Quantitative… specifically what did they see and what did they learn…but more importantly, how can this be applied to GH and YV.

 

      Qualitative – Analyzing the young people’s findings and materials from data collection… (their photos, their journals, spoken word, etc.) through a working session with the group when they return…. We’re going to take all the information collectively with their photos and craft stories based on how they talk to us about it.

Initially we gave them an exercise for them to look at things and how to absorb thing in the environment around them, then we sent them off with a set of guidelines (on our blog) and they’re being ethnographers

 

 

            Quantitative – We will quantify what the students learned and what their attitude and opinions are of their experience (in general and from a “researcher” perspective). We will do this through pre and post trip questionnaires…