hard to believe police would enter without a warrant – urban myth, or a malicious neighbour who should be prosecuted for wasting police time?… but certainly very familiar with the obsessive rule following for its own sake ! (have been verbally abused more than once for crossing a street late at night with no cars in sight – can’t you see the red light! – nothing to do with safety, just about control and compliance)

but, yeah it’s interesting how you can be more aware of the multiple discourses competing for your interpretive alliance when you’re in new territory and have a greater openness to the possibilities – like when entering the open online learning environment for the first time…. it seems like a foreign country where they do things differently… until it doesn’t.

Polarity is the term I’d use though, to label yes/no questions and how they differ from open-ended ones… and to recognise how they shape the discourse that follows, (as any interviewing researcher knows)… whether a variety of voices are acknowledged and invited in, or the possibility of open exploratory conversation and connection to multiple views is closed down – it’s so in the type of questions we ask isn’t it? (hmmm, ironic, why did I end that comment with a polar question?!)