This is a photograph of the final configuration of the objects Hannah uses to tell the story of Tapestry’s guiding principles. The presentation represents a faith-adjacent remix of the Godly Play storytelling tradition, a popular religious education practice inspired by Montessori techniques.
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Summary of Subsequent Outings
As I reached the period of time for which I had consent to make field recordings with participants (October 17, 2019, and following, depending on the type of event and who was participating), this act of public analysis and documentation proved too time-consuming to pursue comprehensively. Transcripts and audio files of “outing”- rather than “memo”-length…
Mentors: First Volunteer Training
Although I had already begun to understand my relationship to Tapestry as genuinely inquisitive, the January 2019 training for new Tapestry mentors was the first engagement in which I took proper field notes. This account and many subsequent accounts are drawn largely from those notes, from which I have removed identifying or seemingly extraneous details.…
All Tapestry: First Participation Framed as Inquiry
Although I would not yet apply for Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval for my research for many months, and I wouldn’t start taking long-form field notes until my next engagement, I nevertheless think of my participation in this holiday party in late 2018 as the beginning of my formal ethnographic presence with Tapestry. This event…