Abstract Summary
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, I will present a theoretically grounded approach to examining the expressive potential of each theoretical traditions presented in the symposium.
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, I will present a theoretically grounded approach to examining the expressive potential of each theoretical traditions. Through analysis of the approaches to studying literacies presented in this symposium, I 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, I 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.
