Through her eyes : using photography and semistructured interviews to center participants in case studies with multilingual women / Jocelyn Amevuvor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Amevuvor, Jocelyn, author.

Series:

SAGE research method cases.

SAGE research method cases

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Qualitative research--Methodology.

Qualitative research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2024.

Summary:

As a home literacy researcher, I firmly believe that richer literacy classroom communities are built and that students are more motivated to learn when the literacies in the classroom connect with the literacies valued within students' homes and communities. For these reasons, my case study was situated within the context of a family literacy program's class in which multilingual mothers were enrolled. The mothers had the shared goal of gaining more English language skills, but they also came from a variety of different experiences and backgrounds that I believed to be an asset to the class, and I wondered how much the class drew from their backgrounds. As such, I worked with the mothers enrolled in the program to understand the literacies that were important to them. I also worked with the instructors of the program to understand the ways the mothers' home literacies were or could be incorporated into the classroom curriculum. With these goals in mind, I used the following research questions to guide my research: How do emergent multilingual immigrant mothers studying English in the United States present their literacies within a home context? In what ways is multimodality present within the mothers' literacies of the home context? In what ways are the home literacies the women valued incorporated into the family literacy class they attend, and if they are not in the curriculum, then in what ways could they further be incorporated into the curriculum of the class? To answer these questions, I used several qualitative methods, including participant-gathered photography, semistructured interviews, observational field notes of the class, and research memos. I specifically detail the use of participant-gathered photography as a method for capturing participants' perspectives of the home multimodal literacies they value. Throughout the research process, I especially focused on centering my participants' perspectives and voices through the use of photography and semistructured interviews.

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ISBN:

1-5296-8127-8

9781529681277

OCLC:

1418720457