Full Description
Re-Theorising Learning and Research Methods in Learning Research explores the latest developments in the field of learning theory, offering an overview of emerging methods and demonstrating how recent research contributes to furthering understanding of learning. This book illustrates how theory and methods inform one another, facilitating advancements in the field, while addressing the ways in which societal and technological change create a need for adapting approaches to examining learning.
Drawing on an international team of contributors, this book comprises 17 chapters and three commentaries, thematically organised into three broad sections:
emerging theories and conceptualisations of learning and how they drive methodological development
new methods or innovative use of existing methods and their contribution to theory development
theories and methods that emerge in connection with societal changes
Both novice researchers and more experienced scholars will benefit from an overview of recent theoretical and methodological advances in the learning research field. This is an invaluable resource for researchers in the learning and educational research field and will also support Masters and PhD students to understand how learning theories and research methodology in the field have been evolving in recent years.
Contents
1 Researching the learning of knowledge transformation; 2 Ecological perspectives on learning and methodological implications for research; 3 Dialogic learning with the 'more-than-human world': Insights from posthuman theorising; 4 Learning in dialogues through aesthetic experiences. Some theoretical and methodological issues; 5 Analytical-methodological entanglements. On learning to (re)notice what, where, when, why and by whom in the re-search enterprise; 6 Commentary on Section A: Theoretical research driving methodological development; 7 The dynamics of social networks: Towards a better understanding of selection and influence mechanisms in social capital building; 8 Making visible what seems to be invisible in mathematical problem-solving: Integrating qualitative methods; 9 Towards a cognitive theory of visual expertise: Methods of inquiry; 10 The multi-method autobiographical approach and its contribution to the Funds of Identity theory; 11 Methodological explorations of the study of access, inclusion and participation in and across digital/physical space and time boundaries.; 12 Untangling sociomateriality: Tracing socio-discursive and materially embodied aspects of knowledge-creating learning through Making-Process Rugs; 13 Reflection - How methodological innovation contributes to theory development: A new materialist approach; 14 Learning analytics and societal challenges: capturing value for education and learning ; 15 Distributed design: Learning to work with novel potentialities of digital 3D technology; 16 Hybridizing in and out-of-school learning; 18 Using mixed methods social network analysis to study teacher collaboration for migrant inclusion in a Swedish school; 19 Utopian Methodologies to Address the Social and Ecological Crises Through Educational Research; 20 Research on learning during times of crisis
