Research Mobilities in Primary Literacy Education Interrogating How Teachers Encounter Research in an Age of Evidence-Based Teaching
This book delves into the intriguing question of why certain types of literacy research gain more traction than others in educational settings, irrespective of the quality of the research or the efforts of the researchers.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Routledge
[2025]
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| Edition: | First edition |
| Series: | Routledge research in literacy.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009861839606719 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: Why think about research mobilities in literacy education?
- Introduction
- Examining research mobilities 'in the wild'
- The everyday practice of locating research - research mobilities as social material practices
- The age of evidence-based teaching
- Engaging with a diversity of literacy research
- Working with expansive notions of research
- Connections between research and teaching
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Chapter 2: Towards an expansive view of literacy research
- Introduction
- Perspectives on the nature of literacy
- How can different perspectives combine to support literacy learning?
- Expanding notions of evidence and what evidence is for
- Orientating differently to literacy education through research
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Chapter 3: Relationships between literacy, research and policy in England
- Introduction
- The management of schools and high-stakes accountability measures
- Data-driven school improvement
- Academisation
- The diminishing role of academics as sources of expertise and mediators of research in education
- Changes in provision for teacher education
- The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) and evidence-based teaching
- Developments in literacy policy
- The National Literacy Strategy
- Systematic synthetic phonics
- The National Curriculum for English
- The emergence of new actors: Literacy education as a crowded field
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Chapter 4: From research mobilisation to research mobilities
- Introduction
- The challenge of research mobilisation
- What does a specific focus on literacy research add to thinking about mobilisation?
- Moving onto mobilities
- Approaching research mobilities with a sociomaterial sensibility.
- Research as text(s)
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Chapter 5: Investigating research mobilities - A multistranded methodology
- Introduction
- Corpus linguistics
- The corpora
- Sociomaterial ethnographies
- Network ethnography
- Controversy mapping
- Interviewing objects
- The cases
- Data collection and analysis
- Digital fieldwork
- Primary teachers' encounters with literacy research
- Working with teachers
- Analysis
- Logging teachers' 'mentions'
- Ethics, reflexivity and relationality
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6: Teachers' encounters with research
- Introduction
- Appearances of research
- How research moves to, from and around teachers: Seeking research out or being bombarded?
- Policy influences: What they want you to read
- Managing the multiplicity of research mediators - 'a juggling act' or (digital) drowning in research
- Engagement
- Research mobilised: Signposting or 'sowing seeds'
- Multiple mentions and hot topics
- Movements across time, space and relationships
- Credibility
- Research reinterpreted or redirected
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Chapter 7: Appearances and disappearances of literacy and research for teachers
- Introduction
- Range and diversity of individuals and organisations involved in mediating research
- Range of materials to which teachers referred
- Research and resemiotisation
- Appearances of literacy
- The prevalence of reading
- Successful mobilisations
- Reading for pleasure
- Ofsted's Research Review for English
- Absences
- Conclusion
- Note
- Chapter 8: Applying a corpus linguistic lens to explore appearances of literacy research in news media and Twitter
- Introduction
- Major findings from the newspaper corpus
- Collocates of reading
- Key findings from the Twitter corpus
- Popular hashtags
- Influential accounts
- An approach to influence
- Conclusion.
- Chapter 9: Tracing literacy research: Networks, controversies and movements
- Introduction
- The phonics and the reading wars case
- Translation: Research as event
- Translation: Research as controversy
- The Critical Connections (multilingual digital storytelling) case
- Translation: Research moves as it materialises into the 'Our Planet Festival'
- The Funds of Knowledge case
- Translation: Research as a fluid phrase with multiple agendas
- Policy
- In England-based research
- In organisational websites
- In the media
- From appearances to mobilities
- About moves &
- movements
- Chapter 10: Relationships between research mobilities, research, literacy and teachers
- Introduction
- Research mobilities
- The sedimentation of 'research' as 'truth' in an age of evidence-based teaching
- The narrowing effects of the educational marketplace
- Mobilities and mutability
- Relevance and resonance
- Conclusion
- Chapter 11: Moving literacy research around: Possibilities for expansive and empowering encounters with literacy research
- Introduction
- Developing expansive and inclusive approaches to literacy and research
- Towards a generous approach to research
- Expanding possibilities for research in primary literacy education: From 'what works' to 'what if'
- Research which offers guidance
- Research which generates insights
- Research which provides critique
- Research which prompts imaginative leaps
- Opening things out - What might generous and generative research encounters involve?
- Challenges for critical, reflective encounters with literacy research
- Possibilities for facilitating critical, reflective encounters with research
- Meeting places
- Compelling research communications that invite dialogue
- Empowering and enabling spaces
- Where next for researching research mobilities?
- Note
- Bibliography.
- Index.
