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14 SES 13 B, Research Journeys through Diverse Urban Communities: The Language and Literacy Development of New Arrival Children
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These three papers construct a narrative that examines the ways in which our knowledge of new arrival children and visual literacy research can inform the design of quantitative research through the creation of innovative data gathering tools that favour a constructivist approach to literacy development as well as subsequent pedagogical practice.
Population change and migration is a manifestation of globalisation and the urban areas of Glasgow, Barcelona and Marseille, which provide the contextual setting for each paper, have all experienced cycles of migration over the last century. Over the past 15 years population shifts across Europe mean that within these cities approximately 15% of young people are new to the language of instruction within the education systems While individual education systems have responded at a policy level to meet the educational needs of these children, tensions still remain in terms of attitudes and beliefs about migration and the links between state, language and identity. Fixed notions of state, language and identity still abound and have made their presence felt in the subsequent cities through intolerance and an increased sense of marginalisation for new arrivals.
This symposium will discuss how researchers have used culturally responsive tools to investigate and illuminate the gaps between policy and practice, as well as evaluating the impact of their research within the communities where they work.
The first paper presents research from an international project on Visual Journeys by the Barcelona team. The project looked at how newly arrived children responded to two wordless postmodern picturebooks on the theme of journeys and migration. The resulting analytical framework was developed by a process of application mediation and re-application across four countries and showed the ways in which newly arrived children responded to the texts through personal and intertextual connections. The children became confident critical readers of these visual texts making clear links to their own identity as new arrivals.
The second paper presented by the Glasgow Visual Journeys team looked at how the data analysis tools developed in the VJ project could be developed for use in the classroom to allow the children to transfer critical reading skills developed with visuals to respond to picturebooks with text and children’s fiction on the theme of migration. The first round of enquiry used visuals to record the children’s home literacy practices. This data was then used by the classroom practitioners to meet the language and literacy developments needs of the children. Researchers working with newly arrived children need to be mindful of the need to work in collaboration with the communities where they carry out their enquiries.
Paper three looks at work emerging from a funded teacher exchange between Glasgow and Marseille. Research results from the first two projects were incorporated into professional development sessions prepared for the participating exchange teachers. The journey from research to making an impact on policy and practice is a complex and challenging one, but one that needs to be carefully considered and reflected on within the current economic climate.
Programme by Networks, ECER 2021
00. Central Events (Keynotes, EERA-Panel, EERJ Round Table, Invited Sessions)
Network 1. Continuing Professional Development: Learning for Individuals, Leaders, and Organisations
Network 2. Vocational Education and Training (VETNET)
Network 3. Curriculum Innovation
Network 4. Inclusive Education
Network 5. Children and Youth at Risk and Urban Education
Network 6. Open Learning: Media, Environments and Cultures
Network 7. Social Justice and Intercultural Education
Network 8. Research on Health Education
Network 9. Assessment, Evaluation, Testing and Measurement
Network 10. Teacher Education Research
Network 11. Educational Effectiveness and Quality Assurance
Network 12. LISnet - Library and Information Science Network
Network 13. Philosophy of Education
Network 14. Communities, Families and Schooling in Educational Research
Network 15. Research Partnerships in Education
Network 16. ICT in Education and Training
Network 17. Histories of Education
Network 18. Research in Sport Pedagogy
Network 19. Ethnography
Network 20. Research in Innovative Intercultural Learning Environments
Network 22. Research in Higher Education
Network 23. Policy Studies and Politics of Education
Network 24. Mathematics Education Research
Network 25. Research on Children's Rights in Education
Network 26. Educational Leadership
Network 27. Didactics – Learning and Teaching
Network 28. Sociologies of Education
Network 29. Reserach on Arts Education
Network 30. Research on Environmental und Sustainability Education
Network 31. Research on Language and Education (LEd)
Network 32. Organizational Education
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