ABSTRACT

Re-Theorising Learning and Research Methods in Learning Research explores the latest developments in the field of learning theory, offering an overview of emerging methods and demonstrating how recent research contributes to furthering understanding of learning. This book illustrates how theory and methods inform one another, facilitating advancements in the field, while addressing the ways in which societal and technological change create a need for adapting approaches to examining learning.

Drawing on an international team of contributors, this book comprises 17 chapters and three commentaries, thematically organised into three broad sections:

  • emerging theories and conceptualisations of learning and how they drive methodological development
  • new methods or innovative use of existing methods and their contribution to theory development
  • theories and methods that emerge in connection with societal changes

Both novice researchers and more experienced scholars will benefit from an overview of recent theoretical and methodological advances in the learning research field. This is an invaluable resource for researchers in the learning and educational research field and will also support Masters and PhD students to understand how learning theories and research methodology in the field have been evolving in recent years.

chapter 4|16 pages

Learning in dialogues through aesthetic experiences

Some theoretical and methodological issues

chapter 5|21 pages

Analytical–methodological entanglements

On learning to (re)notice what, where, when, why and by whom in the re-search enterprise

chapter 6|10 pages

Commentary on Section A

Theoretical research driving methodological development

chapter 7|14 pages

The dynamics of social networks

Towards a better understanding of selection and influence mechanisms in social capital building

chapter 12|16 pages

Untangling sociomateriality

Tracing socio-discursive and materially embodied aspects of knowledge-creating learning through Making-Process-Rugs

chapter 14|18 pages

Learning analytics and societal challenges

Capturing value for education and learning

chapter 15|14 pages

Distributed design

Learning to work with novel potentialities of digital 3D technology