Developing Research Pedagogies With Adolescents

• In Event: Roundtable Session 112
  In Roundtable Session: Literacies That Matter: Using Research, Writing, and Pedagogy to Engage Adolescents

Abstract

As literacy researchers committed to work that is meaningful and significant to both its participants and the broader literacy field, we argue for an approach to literacies research that responds to the need for new relationships, methods, and modalities when seeking and constructing knowledge about literacy in the lives of adolescents. Our approach to research, called “research pedagogies,” recognizes the pedagogical dimension of the research process and aims to disrupt the continuing problematic divide between research and practice. This conceptual/methodological paper considers four distinct instances where youth were invited to co-construct spaces for literacy learning and engagement with multimodal literacies both in and out of school, revealing emergent findings and insights that continue to shape our research and teaching.

Authors

• Rachel E. Nichols, Lower Merion School District

• Jeanine M. Staples, The Pennsylvania State University

• Lalitha M. Vasudevan, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Kelly K. Wissman, University at Albany - SUNY