Re-theorising Learning and Research Methods in Learning Research

Crina Damşa, Antti Rajala, Giuseppe Ritella, Jasperina Brouwer, Antti Rajala, Giuseppe Ritella, Jasperina Brouwer, Crina Damşa

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781000959482
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Researching the learning of knowledge transformation
• Chapter 2: Ecological perspectives on learning and methodological implications for research
• Chapter 3: Dialogic learning with the “more-than-human world”: Insights from posthuman theorising
• Chapter 4: Learning in dialogues through aesthetic experiences: Some theoretical and methodological issues
• Chapter 5: Analytical–methodological entanglements: On learning to (re)notice what, where, when, why and by whom in the re-search enterprise
• Chapter 6: Commentary on Section A: Theoretical research driving methodological development
• Chapter 7: The dynamics of social networks: Towards a better understanding of selection and influence mechanisms in social capital building
• Chapter 8: Making visible what seems to be invisible in mathematical problem-solving : Integrating qualitative methods
• Chapter 9: Towards a cognitive theory of visual expertise: Methods of inquiry
• Chapter 10: The multi-method autobiographical approach and its contribution to the Funds of Identity theory
• Chapter 11: Methodological explorations of the study of access, inclusion and participation in and across digital/physical space and time boundaries
• Chapter 12: Untangling sociomateriality: Tracing socio-discursive and materially embodied aspects of knowledge-creating learning through Making-Process-Rugs
• Chapter 13: Reflection – how methodological innovation contributes to theory development: A new materialist approach
• Chapter 14: Learning analytics and societal challenges: Capturing value for education and learning
• Chapter 15: Distributed design: Learning to work with novel potentialities of digital 3D technology
• Chapter 16: Hybridising in and out-of-school learning
• Chapter 17: Re-conceptualising the space–time of teachers’ professional development
• Chapter 18: Using mixed methods social network analysis to study teacher collaboration for migrant inclusion in a Swedish school
• Chapter 19: Utopian Methodologies to Address the Social and Ecological Crises Through Educational Research
• Chapter 20: Research on learning during times of crisis
• Index