EDUC8200 · Education

Contemporary Issues and Methods in Literacy Research

Lynch School of Education & Human Development

This is an advanced graduate seminar designed to support students who are interested in conducting literacy research, particularly in applied educational contexts. This course is meant to introduce and explore literacy research, theory, methodology, with a specific focus on intersections and divergences between developmental and critical literacy research. The course starts by building an understanding of these literacy traditions and moves on to explores different theories, methodologies, and controversies that have emerged, or are currently emerging, in literacy research more broadly. Both critical and developmental perspectives are highly relevant to applied educational contexts, and an understanding of what they are and what they mean is important for the 21st century literacy researchers.