scholarly journals Problematizing qualitative educational research: reading observations and interviews through rhizoanalysis and multiple literacies

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Masny
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Linear Perspective ◽  
Multiple Literacies ◽  
Writing Systems ◽  
Privileged Position ◽  
School Based ◽  
Non Linear

This article problematizes conventional qualitative educational research through a process of reading observation and interview in rhizomatic research. Such an approach to doing research brings together Multiple Literacies Theory and rhizoanalysis, innovative practices with transdisciplinary implications. This article contributes to on-going research regarding the emergence of multiple literacies and rhizoanalysis as a way to experiment in disrupting conventional research concepts, in this case, observations and interviews. Rhizoanalysis is proposed because of its non-hierarchical and non-linear perspective to conducting qualitative research. In a similar manner, Multiple Literacies Theory seeks to release school-based literacy from its privileged position and unfold literacy as multiple and non-hierarchical. This theoretical and practical stance to educational research is deployed in an assemblage that includes a study of multiple writing systems with 5- to 8 –year- old multilingual children. Reading observation and interviews through the lens of rhizoanalysis and Multiple Literacies Theory becomes an exploration in reconceptualization of qualitative research.

scholarly journals Editorial

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Merete Otterstad ◽  
Jayne Osgood
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Multiple Literacies ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Individual Subject ◽  
Objective Truth ◽  
Truth Claims ◽  
The Individual

This volume offers the reader two articles and an interview with which to engage. Aligned with the objectives of Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodologies the authors variously unfold and problematize conventional qualitative research philosophies and practices in unexpected ways. By undertaking and highlighting how transdisciplinary work might disrupt objective truth claims formed from particular research ideals - the authors avoid generalisations and glorification of their research data. Though the articles approach research practices differently, what unites them is the capacity to capture complexity within entangled assemblages of forces and intensities in which the individual subject is disrupted and rethought. Collective assemblages of desire are created by writing together, thinking together, and creating together - the yet not known. Dynamic elements work together to connect multiple literacies, artistic photos and transgressive writings that evoke liveliness and rhizomatic thinking.

My Chinese Is in a Tiny Box With a Roof, My French and English Vocabulary Are in Boxes With No Roof. The Wind Blows Them Away: Creation and Resistance—Reconceptualizing Learning With Multilingual Children

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 190-201
Author(s):  
Diana Masny ◽  
Maria Lynn Bastien
Keyword(s):  
School Readiness ◽  
Minority Education ◽  
Multiple Literacies ◽  
Language And Literacy ◽  
Privileged Position ◽  
School Based ◽  
French And English

Children from multilingual families often attend preschool programming that engages in school readiness including school-based language and literacy through play. This article problematizes the privileged position of school-based language and literacy. Proposing all literacies and languages are equally important, what is the relationality of multilingualism and multiple literacies in an assemblage with families engaged in minority education? Two 7-year-old girls, their mothers, and the researcher discuss literacies, multilingualism, and learning. The conceptual and analytical lenses of Multiple Literacies Theory and rhizoanalysis deterritorialize arborescent learning and reterritorialize learning rhizomatically. Through problematization, multilingualism, multiple literacies, and minority education conceptualize differently.

scholarly journals Multiple Literacies Theory: how it functions, what it produces

Perspectiva ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 337-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Masny
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Literacies ◽  
Literacy Studies ◽  
Writing Systems ◽  
New Literacy ◽  
New Literacy Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
The Moment

At the moment, there are two literacy theories that seem to dominate the research on literacies. They are known as the New Literacy Studies (NLS) (BARTON; HAMILTON; IVANIČ; 2002; STREET, 2003) and Multiliteracies (COPE; KALANTZIS, 2009). This article is about a different theory, Multiple Literacies Theory (MLT) that demarcates itself from them ontologically and epistemologically. It will also highlight aspects of NLS and Multiliteracies in order to point out the differences with MLT. This article aims to put forward the major concepts that underlie this theory and present vignettes from a study examining how perceptions of writing systems in multilingual children contribute to reading, reading the world and self as texts.

Unapologetic Educational Research: Addressing Anti-Blackness, Racism, and White Supremacy

2021 ◽  
pp. 153270862110604
Author(s):  
Penny A. Pasque ◽  
Lori D. Patton ◽  
Joy Gaston Gayles ◽  
Mark Anthony Gooden ◽  
Malik S. Henfield ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Educational Leaders ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Racial Equity ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Sociopolitical Context ◽  
Women Educational Leaders

We explore “ Unapologetic Educational Research: Addressing Anti-Blackness, Racism, and White Supremacy” to engage scholars in thinking about and reflecting on what it means to conduct qualitative research from a standpoint that honors Black lives in the research process while also disrupting racism and white supremacy. First, we unapologetically take up topics including engaging “diversity” in qualitative research, interrogating the etic perspective in the “new” focus on race, using critical perspectives to inform research and practice, examining the racialization of positionality, focusing on Black women educational leaders, and engaging schools and communities. Next, we engage in dialogue with each other to push ourselves—and you/the reader—to think more deeply about the serious and potentially dangerous implications of our research decisions. Given the unprecedented historical present we are all experiencing in our lifetime, we are committed to shifting the landscape of qualitative research as well as using research to shift our sociopolitical context toward racial equity and justice.

Qualitative and Quantitative Paradigm Constellation In Educational Research Methodology

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-345
Author(s):  
Hilman Djafar ◽  
Rasid Yunus ◽  
Sarson W DJ Pomalato ◽  
Ruslan Rasid
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Fundamental Difference ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Research Article

Differences qualitative and quantitative research to academicians and researchers mainly concentrated on education  studies is only able to browse and identify with the fundamental difference merely as example: research that only uses quantitative data but using the qualitative as a benchmark often not considered as a quantitative research  Likewise ,  qualitative research that uses quantitative data is not considered qualitative research. If traced further, actually qualitative and quantitative research very spacious and is a level. Qualitative and quantitative research in the context of methodology includes a researcher's conception of social reality, the researcher's self placement in relation to the reality study and various other reviews. Therefore, in this research article,is stated that the correlation between qualitative and quantitative research in educational research methodology is possible if both are based on the same paradigm. Conversely qualitative and quantitative researchis difficult to reconcile if they depart from different paradigms, which have different epistemological assumptions, and different goodness criteria.

scholarly journals A Critical Review of Immigrant Children’s Literacies and Identities from a Deleuzian Perspective

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
School Culture ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Immigrant Children ◽  
Multiple Literacies ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Children's Literacy ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Literacy Research

This article examines how Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizome concept can be applied to educational research about immigrant children’s literacies and identities. It explores the intersection of literacy and identity encountered in sociocultural and poststructural (particularly a Deleuzian perspective) paradigms, reviews studies on immigrant children’s literacy and identity from these two perspectives, and discusses challenges posed by each. The rhizome concept advances a new way of research about immigrant children, who are often marginalized by the dominant school culture. This new way of research emphasizes literacy as a process of becoming, highlighting immigrant children’s multilinguality, creativity, and intersections of multiple literacies across school, home and community and across global and local contexts and the fluidity of their identities. The paper finally calls for an awareness of the complications, connections and multiplicities that literacy research confronts concerning immigrant children and puts forward some pedagogical implications.

Work/Think/Play/Birth/Death/Terror/Qualitative/Research

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (9) ◽  
pp. 712-719
Author(s):  
Jennifer R. Wolgemuth ◽  
Pauliina Rautio ◽  
Mirka Koro-Ljungberg ◽  
Travis M. Marn ◽  
Susan Nordstrom ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
American Educational Research Association ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Research Association ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Critical Qualitative Research ◽  
Birth Death

Inspired by work/think/play in qualitative research, we centered the idea of “play” in a qualitative research project to explore what proceeding from the idea of work/think/play might look like and accomplish. We pursued play in an experimental qualitative inquiry over dinner one night at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Our article centers on one work/think/play inquiry three of us conducted. Through a playful account of how play unfolded in our work/think/play inquiry that evening, we explore research play as generative, deadly, and censored in the context of neoliberalism and other terrors. We reflect on what (good) play does in qualitative research, what our work/think/play/birth/death/terror/qualitative/research accomplished, if anything. Maybe research play is vital, what keeps us fit to do critical qualitative research. Yet research play moves (well) beyond normative rules of much qualitative research. Is it worth the risk? Can we know? Even after?

scholarly journals Analisis Rumusan Visi, Misi, Dan Tujuan Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini di TK II Pertiwi

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-58
Author(s):  
Safira Zulfania
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
School Based

This research wanted to know the planning of the management of the vision, mission, and goals of the school in TK II Pertiwi Semarang. Choosing this kindergarten because the school institution has the appropriate vision, mission and goals. This research is descriptive research, namely research defines how the management of the vision, mission, and goals of TK II Pertiwi Semarang. The data obtained using qualitative research, data collection techniques can be done through observation and interviews. In preparing the vision and mission, it involves elements of the surrounding community and the management of related institutions. Pertiwi Kindergarten II School based on the vision, mission and objectives already includes the existing criteria. There needs to be an evaluation if there is anything that needs to be improved.

scholarly journals Wandering along the Moebius strip: Radical reflexivity in the archaeology of educational research

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-151
Author(s):  
Antti Saari
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Life History ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
History Of ◽  
Conditions Of Possibility ◽  
Moebius Strip ◽  
Style Of Writing ◽  
The Way

Writing qualitative research texts often involves the acknowledgement of the researcher being imbued in the systems of meaning that he or she is studying. This provides a background for incitement to reflexivity, i.e. how one’s own life history and broader cultural context is etched in epistemological and ontological assumptions about the object. This article studies the reflexive style of writing in Michel Foucault’s archaeology of the human sciences, which constantly problematises its own assumptions about studying discourses. His style is described with the analogy of a Moebius strip, highlighting the way the ‘outside’ history of the human sciences turns into the ‘inside’ conditions of possibility for analysing discursive formations in the history of educational research.

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