Dr. Judith Green is an incredibly prolific writer. I use a great deal of her work in my courses. In 2007, she published an invaluable chapter on video data analysis.

The title of the chapter is: Epistemological issues in the analysis of video records: Interactional ethnography as a logic of inquiry.

In Goldman, R., Barron, B., & S. Derry (eds.) (2007) . Video Research in the learning Sciences. Atlanta, Ga.: Taylor and Francis. Visiting to the Center for Qualitative Inquiry are pleased to learn about this edited collection of chapters devoted to video research across multiple disciplines.

For those interesting in reading more about research conversations about epistemology, see Gregg Kelley’s (2006) chapter entitled: Epistemology & Educational Research. In Green, J., Camilli, G. & P. Elmore (eds.). Handbook of complementary methods in education research. Washington: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates & American Education Research Association

Against the backdrop of current debates about research, what counts as research, and who gets to decide, one of my student’s favorite quotes from this chapter is on page 35: “An over-reliance of empirical study is as dangerous as its under utilization.”