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Early Childhood Development: Last on the Hierarchy of Needs?

by Nat Kendall-Taylor February 8, 2012 Framing in the Field

Short of opening up crania–a task for which we are grossly unqualified–FrameWorks researchers are in the business of looking into people’s heads. We look for patterns of thinking that are evident behind patterns of talking, justifying, arguing and reasoning about issues. This is the reason why Naomi Quinn’s seminal methods account is called “Finding Culture [...]

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“But how could empathy be bad?”: The frequently counterintuitive nature of reframing

by Nat Kendall-Taylor November 28, 2011 Framing in the Field

“Oh crap! You know all that stuff you guys just said about what detracts from policy support? That’s exactly what I’ve been doing!” Such was the response of an audience member following a recent presentation of a series of FrameWorks reframing studies on addiction. The reason for telling this story is not to add further [...]

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Culture Happens to Anthropologists Too – A Reflection on Public Attitudes Towards Education

by Nat Kendall-Taylor September 20, 2011 Framing in the Field

  “A teacher has to be caring…that’s really about it.” If I had a dollar for every time I’ve asked someone how to improve education and gotten an answer like this, I’d be…well, you know the script. As an anthropologist who three years ago turned the ethnographic eye from wildly exotic cultures (think the Swahili Coast [...]

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Framing Early Child Development: Resilience…it’s everywhere.

by Nat Kendall-Taylor August 25, 2011 Framing in the Field

If you’re part of the world of early child development science, policy and practice, you’ve undoubtedly come across the concept of “resilience”—it’s everywhere you turn. The next time you attend a presentation or are at a talk that deals with children and policy run a little experiment—count the number of times resilience is invoked, both [...]

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Education Reform: An On-the-Street View of Cultural Models at Work

by Nat Kendall-Taylor July 25, 2011 Framing in the Field

Have you ever given a talk and been left with the sinking feeling that the message people were left with and the one you had intended to provide were dramatically different? Well, you are not alone! One way that anthropologists explain this phenomenon is with the theory of cultural models. While this theory is complex, [...]

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