Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Course Outlines

Spring 2020 - EDUC 926 G001

Ethnographic and Multimodal Approaches to Educational Research (3)

Class Number: 2439

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2020: Wed, 1:00–3:50 p.m.
    Vancouver

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

This seminar is designed for the second term of the doctoral program in Languages, Cultures, and Literacies in the Faculty of Education. It will provide students with opportunities to examine and practice analytical research procedures that are currently in the forefront of multiliteracies and multimodal research oriented to transformative educational scholarship.

COURSE DETAILS:

Pre-requisite/Co-requisite: Concurrent enrollment in EDUC 925

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

1.     To help participants to become familiar with ethnographic and discourse analytic approaches to research in multiliteracies and multimodalities;
2.     To guide participants in experiencing and engaging with critical multi-modal media/textual analysis that is relevant and meaningful to them;
3.      To support students to develop promising directions and foci for their doctoral research.

Grading

  • Mid-term: Critical multimodal media/textual analysis (completed in tandem with EDUC 925 mid-term) 30%
  • Final paper (part 1): Ethnographic and multimodal approaches to educational research: Theory and praxis implications on doctoral research 35%
  • Final paper (part 2): Ethnographic and multimodal approaches to educational research: Researcher identity/positionality implications on doctoral research 35%

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

All course readings will be (made) available online.

Graduate Studies Notes:

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Registrar Notes:

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