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Liberating the dilemmas of studying and researching education as a young academic

One of the biggest headaches I faced in my first term as a new postgraduate student was thinking to myself: what subject am I actually researching? Many people have attempted and failed to answer this existential question regarding their research identity. While I don’t intend to be able to answer this complex question here, I’ve…

Multimodality, Transcription and Educational Research: Learning Beyond Verbal Language

In my doctoral research, I studied 4-year-olds’ meaning-making processes when reading digital literature with their parents where observation was the central method of data collection. So what could I learn about meaning-making (and learning in general) by looking at these reading events? The answer, I found, can be significantly different depending on the methods employed for recording and analyzing these observations.