Research Mobilities in Primary Literacy Education : Interrogating How Teachers Encounter Research in an Age of Evidence-Based Teaching / Cathy Burnett [and six others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burnett, Cathy, author.

Series:

Routledge research in literacy.

Routledge Research in Literacy Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literacy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, [2025]

Summary:

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.

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

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

Chapter 3: Relationships between literacy, research and policy in England

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

Chapter 4: From research mobilisation to research mobilities

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)

Chapter 5: Investigating research mobilities - A multistranded methodology

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

Chapter 6: Teachers' encounters with research

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

Chapter 7: Appearances and disappearances of literacy and research for teachers

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

Note

Chapter 8: Applying a corpus linguistic lens to explore appearances of literacy research in news media and Twitter

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

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 &amp

movements

Chapter 10: Relationships between research mobilities, research, literacy and teachers

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

Chapter 11: Moving literacy research around: Possibilities for expansive and empowering encounters with literacy research

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?

Bibliography.

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-04-022227-7

1-003-42898-3

1-04-022225-0

9781003428985

OCLC:

1463279974