Educational Research for Social Change
Roberto Vargas
rvargas1@swarthmore.edu
Today
1. Where to resources
2. How to find resources
2. What to do with the resources that you find
3 tools
1. TRIPOD
2. PROQUEST
2. Oxford Bibliographies
- Action Research/ Teacher Research
- Participant Action Research (PAR, YPAR)
- Design Based Research
- Discourse Analysis (classroom, critical, etc.)
- Critical Ethnography
- Funds of Knowledge
- Case Study
EXAMPLE
Your turn. Take 5 minutes to:
- Action Research/ Teacher Research
- Participant Action Research (PAR, YPAR)
- Design Based Research
- Discourse Analysis (classroom, critical, etc.)
- Critical Ethnography
- Funds of Knowledge
- Case Study
1. Pick a method (not Action Research!)
2. Do a generic search in proquest
3. Scan the results for alternative names
4. Go to Oxford Bibliographies
5. Go back and forth until you have created a search string
Now what?
Synthesize the research!
Lit review
The scholarly conversation
Research Paper
What the Lit Review is NOT!
Annotated Bibliography
Only a Summary
A book review
+Integrated analysis of scholarly writing
What the Lit Review is NOT
+Can be arranged thematically, chronologically or by questions
- A summary + an analysis
+Makes judgements on the literature:
- Identifies inconsistencies, gaps and contradictions in the literature
+Is guided by your perspective
i.e. If you write a lit review chronologically, you might be emphasizing how your topic has changed over time
- Highlights key findings
What the Lit Review is NOT
+Demonstrates why the topic is significant to education
+Discovers relationships between ideas/research
+Provides clues for future research
- Ensures that researches do not duplicate work that has already been done
-Areas to focus
+Demonstrates you are familiar with the topic
Synthesis Matrix
Theme 1
Theme 2
Theme 3
Article 7
Article 8
Article 5
Article 6
Article 3
Article 4
Article 1
Article 2
Article 1
Article 1
Article 2
Article 3
Article 3
Article 4
Article 4
Article 5
Article 6
Article 7
Article 7
Article 7
Article 8
JAMBOARD
Roberto Vargas
rvargas1@swarthmore.edu
http://guides.library.vcu.edu/lit-review
http://libguides.uwf.edu/c.php?g=215199&p=1420475
https://laverne.libguides.com/c.php?g=34942&p=222060
Big thanks to the following libguides:
ED- QRM - Lit Review + Research
By Swarthmore Reference
ED- QRM - Lit Review + Research
Presentation created for ED152 Honors seminar - created by RV
