Abstract Summary
The goals of this presentation is to explore possible ways of understanding what can be learned from the studies presented in this symposium, and what the theories guiding each enable the field to learn. Through a contrastive review of the guiding logic-of-inquiry across the studies, we will initiate a discussion of how these studies for a basis for a new research agenda for the ReN.
Abstract :
Today researchers studying literacies as social and discursive constructions have a series of theoretical and methodological perspectives available to guide their research. In this presentation, we will present a theoretically grounded approach to examining the expressive potential of each theoretical tradition. Through analysis of the approaches to studying literacies presented in this symposium, we seek to construct a deeper and more complex understanding of what each provides the field and to propose a possible research agenda grounded in the different directions presented. Thus by a contrastive analysis of the presentations, we will propose ways each contributes to a larger understanding of literacies as social and discursive construction as well as explore areas for future consideration.
The goals of this presentation is to explore possible ways of understanding what we learned from these studies and what the theories guiding each enable the field to learn that lay a foundation for a new research agenda for the ReN. Each paper will be examined in relationship to the following governing principles:
How do the author(s) specify the problems that require solution.
How do the authors provide the characterization of what is to count as a theoretical and an empirical
term
What questions do the authors examine.
How do the authors define relevant from irrelevant phenomena?
How do authors define what is to count as a well-formed or appropriate account of phenomena.
How do the authors frame what is to count as evidence for proposed accounts.
How do the authors frame the perceptual categories by means of which the world is experienced.
These governing principles of a program of research according to Strike frame a basis for understanding the expressive potential of the different approaches and to explore problem-ontology-theory-epistemology-methodology relationships that shape what can be known through these papers as a collection.
