Dollarware!
Over the past several weeks, my senior class and I have been working on, and have now completed, The Dollarware Project. What on earth is that, you may ask? Nothing less than the world's first scholarly archaeological analysis of discount store ceramic drinking vessels, that's what.
I'm just astonished at how much time and energy the class was able and willing to put into a project that was worth only 40% of their term mark. Honestly I hadn't expected anything like this kind of response, and as far as I can tell few people burned out even towards the end of the project. The projects range in length up to 9000 words of text (!!) and their quality matches their quantity. I'm also very pleased at the wide range of approaches and methodologies, quantitative and qualitative, used to examine an incredible diversity of research questions in fascinating ways.
Anyway, I'm sure that *something* there is of interest to many of you; to get a better sense of the projects you could read my editorial introduction which briefly describes each of the individual reports. Let me know what you think!
I'm just astonished at how much time and energy the class was able and willing to put into a project that was worth only 40% of their term mark. Honestly I hadn't expected anything like this kind of response, and as far as I can tell few people burned out even towards the end of the project. The projects range in length up to 9000 words of text (!!) and their quality matches their quantity. I'm also very pleased at the wide range of approaches and methodologies, quantitative and qualitative, used to examine an incredible diversity of research questions in fascinating ways.
Anyway, I'm sure that *something* there is of interest to many of you; to get a better sense of the projects you could read my editorial introduction which briefly describes each of the individual reports. Let me know what you think!