+ GLIT 6756 Literacy & Inquiry: Teachers as Informed Consumers of Literacy Research Colin Lankshear & Michele Knobel [email protected] & [email protected]
Dec 18, 2014
+GLIT 6756Literacy & Inquiry:Teachers as Informed Consumers of Literacy Research
Colin Lankshear & Michele [email protected] & [email protected]
+Research as systematic inquiry
p. 29 of your textbook
+Relationship of Research Logic to Evaluation TemplateContext of study (purpose,
question, problem area, relevant other research)
Framework (theory and concepts)
Design and methodology
The evaluative template (Appendix 1 in your syllabus)
+Tasks for today
Forming work groups (teams) & sending names and email addresses to Michele & Colin
Kitting up (key resources for the semester)
Becoming familiar with the evaluative template
Practising with the template in work groups using the Gainer article we’ve supplied
Locating a literacy research-based paper to critique (that all members of a group can “relate to”)
+Forming work groups
Ideally 4-6 members
Likely to share some common interest to help with article selection
Likely to be able to work together online and offline and contribute equally to the final analytic paper
+Kitting up
Using Google Docs to write collaboratively (http://docs.google.com )
Using the internet to communicate between meetings (e.g., www.skype.com or messenger/chat, blog, Twitter, email)
Resources for finding a suitable article (e.g., http://scholar.google.com ; MSVU online article archives)
+Using Google Docs
+Google Docs (cont.)
+Google Docs (cont.)
+Google Docs (cont.)
Title your document here
+Google docs (cont.)
Share your Google Docs with Colin and Michele:
colin.lankshear@gmailcom
+Using Scholar Google as a meta-search engine
Select “Scholar
Preferences”
+Scholar Google (cont.)
Write out uni name in full
+Scholar Google (cont.)
Place check
mark in box
+Scholar Google (cont.)
+Critiquing Gainer article
In groups, work through the Gainer article, using the analytic template found in Appendix 1 of your syllabus to guide your evaluation
Discuss as a whole group
This is a sampling of the kind of process you’ll go through for writing your final paper
+Finding a focus articleThe article must be relevant to literacy
studies.
The article must be a peer-reviewed and formally published research article.
Ideally published within the past 5 years.
You need to be truly interested in the focus of the article. Focus must be good and “meaty”
The focus of your article needs to have a prior history of research – be part of a research area or field
Your final paper must engage with debates, present an argument, and include critique (your group needs to take a theorised position and you’ll be reading well beyond your focus article)
+Course website & additional resources
https://sites.google.com/site/ourmsvupages/pei-summer-
2012-consumers
There are 3 examples of final papers posted here.