Literacy Research and Its Relationship with Policy: What and Who Informs Policy and Why Is Some Research Ignored?

IF 1.6 3区 教育学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Uta Papen
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Socio-cultural and practice-based approaches to literacy, associated with the (New) Literacy Studies, having emerged in the 1980s, nowadays are an established research field. Based on in-depth research, in many contexts and countries, the (New) Literacy Studies has much to offer to teachers and policymakers. And yet this impressive body of work has had little impact on policy. Taking as my example England, I ask what research has shaped policy in the past 30 years and why socio-cultural and practice-based studies have been ignored. Thus, I address the question of where the field has been and where it should go to from the point of view of its relationship with policy. My focus is on the initial teaching of literacy in primary (elementary) schools. I discuss three factors which I believe contribute to our struggles to influence policy: the policy environment itself and how it has changed; the wider economy of literacy research and what knowledge counts in the interface between research and policy; and, finally, the role of the media and public discourse in the relationship between research and policy. I end with questions about what we may have missed and where the field might want to go.
扫盲研究及其与政策的关系:是什么、谁为政策提供信息?为什么有些研究被忽视?
与20世纪80年代出现的(新)扫盲研究相关的社会文化和实践为基础的扫盲方法,如今已成为一个成熟的研究领域。(新)扫盲研究基于对许多背景和国家的深入研究,可以为教师和政策制定者提供很多建议。然而,这些令人印象深刻的工作对政策几乎没有影响。以英国为例,我问在过去的30年里,哪些研究影响了政策,为什么社会文化和基于实践的研究被忽视了。因此,我从该领域与政策的关系的角度来探讨该领域的发展方向和应该走向何方的问题。我的工作重点是小学初期的识字教学。我将讨论我认为有助于我们努力影响政策的三个因素:政策环境本身及其如何变化;更广泛的扫盲研究经济,以及在研究和政策之间的界面中知识的重要性;最后,媒体和公共话语在研究和政策之间的关系中的作用。最后,我提出了一些问题,关于我们可能错过了什么,以及这个领域未来的发展方向。
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Research in the Teaching of English
Research in the Teaching of English EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-
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期刊介绍: Research in the Teaching of English (RTE) is a broad-based, multidisciplinary journal composed of original research articles and short scholarly essays on a wide range of topics significant to those concerned with the teaching and learning of languages and literacies around the world, both in and beyond schools and universities.
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