by Steve Thomason | Mar 29, 2015 | Personal Journal
Two things happened yesterday that I choose to interpret as a hopeful sign. The first is that I completed the second draft of my dissertation. My advisor put the brakes on my first draft on February 17 and told me to go back to my data, reshuffle the content, and add...
by Steve Thomason | Mar 23, 2015 | Personal Journal, Personal Updates
I designed the Deep in the Burbs project around three phases. The first phase would consist of six large group meetings. The group would meet for two hours on six consecutive Monday evenings, starting on February 24, 2014 and ending on March 24, 2014. The second phase...
by Steve Thomason | Mar 20, 2015 | Participatory Action Research, Personal Journal, Personal Updates
Using Participatory Action Research The DITB research question emerged because I had an experience that led to a hunch. My experience of the social Trinity had a profound impact on how I approached spiritual formation. I had a hunch that other people might have a...
by Steve Thomason | Feb 26, 2015 | Technology for Academics
I made a bold step today and dismantled my dissertation. My advisor said that the current draft is like a jigsaw puzzle. I have most of the pieces, but they need to be rearranged. I am a visual thinker, so the best way that I can think of dismantling and reshuffling a...
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by Steve Thomason | Feb 25, 2015 | Personal Journal
The current state of my dissertation reminds me of something that happened when we were building an addition to our house in Las Vegas. We hired a friend to be the general contractor and he had sub-contracted the framing to a carpenter that he trusted. The plan was to...
by Steve Thomason | Feb 18, 2015 | Personal Journal
I met with my thesis advisor and one of the readers on my panel yesterday to discuss the state of my dissertation. The question that had the most emotional impact came when my reader asked, “How important is it that you graduate this May as opposed to next...
