Research project funded by the Center for Research, Development, and Innovation (CIDI)
at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Sede Central Medellín [File No. 586b-05/16-S80]
tecHnical data for the project
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Description
Our initial research at LSLP started by looking at literacies in out-of-school context, as a means to get our work off the ground and engage our team into learning to do research. As our research has progressed, two things happened: on the one hand, our student researchers began their student teaching experiences; on the other hand, the infusion of our teacher researchers also triggered new questions that made us revisit the school context. That organic need to explore school contexts more carefully was the catalyst for this, our fourth research project since we chartered LSLP.
Although this project does share conceptual and methodological affinities with the projects in the Community Literacies in Second Language Contexts line, it is rather different in one particular area: Unlike the other projects, this one works closely to an umbrella project that really brings together individual research endeavors from our preservice teachers and master's students with small-scale projects that we will design and carry out. The co-investigators in this team will develop the smaller projects, although all our research team will contribute their work as they write their senior and master's theses.
We are covering the P-16 spectrum from three vantage points:
Although this project does share conceptual and methodological affinities with the projects in the Community Literacies in Second Language Contexts line, it is rather different in one particular area: Unlike the other projects, this one works closely to an umbrella project that really brings together individual research endeavors from our preservice teachers and master's students with small-scale projects that we will design and carry out. The co-investigators in this team will develop the smaller projects, although all our research team will contribute their work as they write their senior and master's theses.
We are covering the P-16 spectrum from three vantage points:
- Pre-K to 5/Children's Literacies, where we will look carefully at the integration of frameworks such as critical literacy, digital literacies and multiliteracies when working with younger English learners.
- High school/Adolescent Literacies, where we will explore the development of multimodal and digital texts at this level.
- Teacher Education, where we will describe efforts to infuse literacies into our work with preservice teachers and graduate courses.
Academic Presentations and publications
During the course of this project, this research team presented a total of four international (including both AERA and LRA), two local, two regional, and one national presentation. Here is the yearly detail, including some presentations from the exploratory stage.
2015
2015
- March - XIV Jornadas y II Congreso Internacional del Maestro Investigador (UPB-Medellín)
- April - GCLR Webinar
- May - Regional Student Research Group (Antioquia Node) Annual Meeting
- May - International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (University of Illinois) [2 presentations]
- September - UPB Student Research Group Annual Meeting
- October - ASOCOPI 50th Annual Conference (Medellín) [3 presentations]
- 2 MA Theses
- May - International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry
- August - 6th International Seminar on the Professional Development of Foreign Language Teachers (Universidad de Antioquia)
- October - ASOCOPI 51st Annual Conference (Medellín)
- November - Literacy Research Association 66th Annual Conference (Nashville, TN)
- 4 MA Theses
- 2 Senior Theses
- October - ASOCOPI 52nd Annual Conference (Cali) [4 presentations]
- November - Literacy Research Association 67th Annual Conference (Tampa, FL)
- November - 3rd International Colloquium on Interdisciplinarity in BA in Foreign Language Education (Cartagena)
- May - International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry