Looking forward to this evening's session 25/04/06. This note isn't intended to be acted on by this evening, you'll be pleased to know! It's just that you are the first group I've tutored that has access to the JSTOR archive of e-journals and I'm hoping that you will practise accessing the e-journals

from your computer.

Sometime over the next week or so do please see if you can access the following three papers by Elliot Eisner in Educational Researcher. We aren't allowed to make multiple copies because of the agreement with JSTOR but each individual can make a copy for their personal use. Hence my

desire that you get hold of your own copies. I think the 1988 paper on the primary of experience and the politics of method is particularly relevant to our present enquiry. Do share any problems you have with gaining access and let's see if we can sort them out together.

Hoping that you will practise accessing the e-journals from your computer. Do see if you can access the following three papers by Elliot Eisner in Educational Researcher

You will need your BUCS name and password to gain entry:

Click on:

http://www.bath.ac.uk/library/ej/

Click on JSTRO in the Electronic Journal Services menu on the right of the page.

You should see a page JSTOR Collections Available at Your Institution.

Click on the Arts & Science IV Collection

You should see a page Currently Available Journals – Arts & Sciences IV Collection

Click on Education in the top menu bar under Currently Available Journals

Scroll to Educational Research and click on it.

Click on Search this Journal

At the top of the box in the section All of these words type in the primacy of experience and the politics of method and click search.

You should see a list which includes The Primacy of Experience and the Politics of Method by Elliot Eisner – click on this and you should be able to download the paper.

A repeat search in the All of these words with

forms of understanding and the future of educational research

should bring up Eisner's Presidential Address to AERA from 1993

and a repeat seach in the All of these words with

the problems and perils of alternative forms of data representation

should bring up Eisner's 1997 paper.