Citation Metrics and Meta-Analysis: The Rise of Bakhtin in English Education

• In Event: 47.069 - Sociocultural and Dialogic Approaches to Moral Development and Identity Across the Life Span

Abstract

This meta-analysis examines the intensification in Bakhtinian scholarship framing educational research from the 17 years prior to 2000 to those years after. In terms of methodology, I performed a three-fold meta-analysis of Bakhtinian citations in education: first using Scopus; second, employing a selection of nine educational journals; and last, focusing on English Education. Based on this research, I offer the following: an increase in journal publications after 2000 as compared to that prior; an intensification of working with Bakhtin theoretically; an identifiable rhizomic structure among established and emerging scholars, between fields of discipline, and among colleagues; and the clustering of scholarly thinking around certain Bakhtinian notions, such as dialogism, authoritative discourse, heteroglossia, and sociocultural discourse in framing research in English education.

Author

• Christian George Gregory, Columbia University