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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.
List of contents
1. Why Think About Research Mobilities in Literacy Education? 2. Towards An Expansive View of Literacy Research 3. Relationships Between Literacy, Research and Policy in England 4. From Research Mobilisation to Research Mobilities 5. Investigating Researching Mobilities: A Multistranded Methodology 6. Teachers' Encounters with Research 7. Appearances and Disappearances of Literacy and Research for Teachers' 8. Applying a Corpus Linguistic Lens to Explore Appearances of Literacy Research in News Media and Twitter 9. Tracing Literacy Research: Networks, Controversies and Movements 10. Relationships between Research Mobilities, Research, Literacy and Teachers 11. Moving Literacy Research Around: Possibilities for Expansive and Empowering Encounters with Literacy Research
About the author
Cathy Burnett is Professor Emerita at Sheffield Institute of Education, Sheffield Hallam University.
Gill Adams is a Reader in Education at Sheffield Institute of Education, Sheffield Hallam University.
Julia Gillen is Professor of Literacy Studies in the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University.
Terrie Lynn Thompson is a senior lecturer in Digital Media & Professional Learning, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Stirling and adjunct faculty at the University of Alberta, Canada.
Anna Cermakova is a senior research associate at the Department of Linguistics and English Language and ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science at Lancaster University.
David Ben Shannon is a lecturer at University of Sheffield and worked on the Research Mobilities in Primary Literacy Education project as a researcher at Sheffield Hallam University.
Parinita Shetty is an early career researcher, public library assistant and children's book writer and worked on the Research Mobilities in Primary Literacy Education project as a researcher at Sheffield Hallam University.
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.
