Approaches to Synthesizing Research in Educational Literacies

• In Event: Tales and Texts: Approaches to Qualitative Work

Abstract

This presentation focuses on various methodologies for qualitative meta-review - reviews that look across qualitative studies to discern what we know in an area of scholarship. We explore insights and contributions of various types of qualitative meta-reviews including dissertation literature reviews, traditional literature reviews, and meta-syntheses. We then draw on our own literacy scholarship to explore two additional forms of meta-review - critical integrative literature reviews and meta-ethnographies by identifying patterns, trends, characteristics, and contributions of these methods. This presentation explores the nature and scope of qualitative meta-reviews yielding important insights into the potential contributions of these methodologies.

Authors

• Catherine F. Compton-Lilly, University of South Carolina

• Rebecca L. Rogers, University of Missouri

• Tisha Lewis Ellison, The University of Georgia