Doug’s Ed.D. blog

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I was up at 5am again this morning working on my Ed.D.� It’s hard when it’s so dark and it’s the end of term…

After looking at various research methodologies, I think I’m going to go for a combination of a hermenutic, philosophical and pragmatic approaches in the dialectical tradition. It could all end up a mess, but I think I’m on to something: digital literacies are culturally and very specifically situated, but have broader elements which can be discussed, synthesized and made sense of.

Here’s what I’ve been looking at today - all from the Handbook of Complementary Methods in Education Research:

• E. Bredo - Philosophies of Educational Research
• N.C. Burbules & B.R. Warnick - Philosophical Inquiry
• F.M. Connelly & D.J. Clandinin - Narrative Inquiry
• C. Genishi & T. Glupczynski - Language and Literacy Research: Multiple Methods and Perspectives

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• Lynn A. Casmier-Paz - Betcha Can’t Read My Mind: The Orientations of Literacy Discourse
• Neil Postman - Technopoly (not available at University of Durham library)
• Anna Brill - Is Literacy Over-Rated?
• H.J. Graff - The Labyrinth of Literacy (not available @Durham) (idea of a ‘literacy myth’)
• S. Scribner & M. Cole - The Psychology of Literacy (University of Durham Education Library 401.9 SCR)
• G. Kress - Literacy in the New Media Age (University of Durham Main Library 379.2 KRE; Education Library 302.2244 KRE)
• Wikipedia - Literacy
• Wikipedia - Computer Literacy
• Wikipedia - Functional Illiteracy
• Wikipedia - Multimedia Literacy
• Wikipedia - Constructivism
  

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Is ‘transliteracy’ a better term than ‘digital literacy’?

• Wikipedia - Transliteracy�

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I’ve used Gliffy to outline the argument for my thesis proposal. It’s a bit rough and needs some work, but I’ll come back to it later! Click on the image below for a larger version:

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