LYST 370 - Advanced Seminar in the Ethnography of Literacy Research
Semester Hours: 3
Spring
Using ethnographic approaches to literacy research, doctoral students will explore complementary and contradictory theories of language, literacy and learning. Using paradigms and metatheories from both the sciences and the humanities as cultural texts, students will examine how each theoretical framework is based on/and leads to different logic, different definitions of reason, and therefore different views of humanity. Emphasis will be placed on the exploration of the epistemological underpinnings of research studies which focus on literacy from different paradigmatic [reductionist/expansionist] frameworks–anthropological, linguistic, psychological, neurological, and social–and students will be encouraged to examine the ways in which these research approaches can be informed by ethnographic research. Students will be expected to clearly articulate their own understandings of [1] science; [2] research; [3] language; [4] literacy; and [5] learning. Students will be expected to produce [1] a portfolio which includes the theoretical and conceptual framework for their doctoral research; and [2] an article for publication or a proposal for a conference presentation.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
LYST 360 and RES 359 . (Formerly READ 363, Seminar Evaluation of Research in Reading.)
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