Surfacing Stealthy Patterns in Literacy Education Research, 1912–2020 (Poster 1)

• In Event: Patterns in Literacy Education Research, 1912–2020

Abstract

There are mounting calls for education researchers to critically examine the role of educational research in perpetuating forms of injustice. We seek to explore the scholarly discourse of literacy education research through the linguistic analysis of a corpus of the approximately 60,000 literacy research articles published in 11 prominent and relatively longstanding literacy journals, 1912-2020. We ask: 1) What are discursive patterns evident within a corpus of published literacy education research and scholarship? 2) To what extent and in what ways do those discursive patterns appear to shift over time? We use the latent Dirichlet allocation open-source software MALLET to identify patterns in language over time, which indicate important themes in literacy education scholarship.

Authors

• Emily C. Rainey, University of Pittsburgh

• Scott Storm, Bowdoin College