The design and use of a mapping tool as a baseline means of identifying an organization’s active networks¹

Networking and the development of professionals: Beginning teachers building social capital

“…Participants also agreed to a semi-structured interview of around 90 minutes. The interview asked BTs to generate a representation or 'map' of their personal network (Fox et al, 2007). (The first term interview schedule, including the brief for this mapping task, forms Appendix C).…”

The challenge to professionals of using social media: teachers in England negotiating personal-professional identities

“…Fox et al, 2007;Fox & Wilson, 2009), as well as asking them about their use, change in use and attitudes towards using social media for educational purposes.…”

‘That's not quite the way we see it’: the epistemological challenge of visual data

“…• Representing researcher generated data (Prosser 2007): we will focus on network diagrams (Fox et al 2007;Hall et al 2010). These data were chosen in the projects to explore and represent professional communities of enquiry across education sectors.…”

“…Posters reporting the teachers' practitioner enquiries were used as visual cues to mediate and stimulate conversations . DESIGN: When deciding on a data collection technique, one potential solution was to get participants to draw a map representing the people and/ or posters that, they felt, had influenced their thinking (for example, Fox et al 2007). However while this type of participant generated visual display may be most appropriate for inquiries treating each participant as a discrete entity, it was felt that researcher generated displays may be better for studies such as this seeking to draw comparisons and relationships across individuals and organisations (Meyer 1991).…”