1st Edition

Education Research and the Media Challenges and Possibilities

Edited By Aspa Baroutsis, Stewart Riddle, Pat Thomson Copyright 2019
212 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Universities around the world now actively encourage academics to engage in public scholarship, publishing in traditional and new media – newspapers, television, radio, blogs and social media. Education Research and the Media addresses this situation, using empirical and reflexive accounts, to interrogate and advance the ways in which this shift is usually discussed. Drawing on Australian... Read more

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About this Book

Chapter 1. Mapping the Field of Education Research and Media Aspa Baroutsis

Part I: Conducting Education Research with Traditional and Social Media

Chapter 2. Headlines and Hashtags Herald New ‘Damaging Effects’: Media and Australia’s Declining PISA Performance Aspa Baroutsis and Bob Lingard

Chapter 3. Televising the Revolution? #RevolutionSchool and Representations of Education Across Traditional and Social Media Nicole Mockler

Chapter 4. Re-Mattering Media Affects: Pedagogical Interference into Pre-Emptive Counter Terrorism Culture Shiva Zarabadi and Jessica Ringrose

Chapter 5. Examining Media Discourses of Diversity and ‘Indoctrination’: Public Perceptions of the Intended Screening of Gayby Baby in Schools Michelle Jeffries

Part II: Communicating Education Research Using Traditional and Social Media

Chapter 6. Entering the Political Fray: The Role of Public Education Scholars in Media Debates Cynthia Gerstl-Pepin and Cynthia Reyes

Chapter 7. Who Speaks for Teachers? Social Media and Teacher Voice Pat Thomson and Stewart Riddle

Chapter 8. Muddling Through with the Media: Lessons from the Introduction of Kiwi Standards Martin Thrupp

Chapter 9. Tweet the 'Phallic Teacher': Early Career Feminist Education Research, Altmetrics and Alternative Peer Review Lucinda McKnight and Linda Graham

Chapter 10. Scholarship of the Cyborg: Productivities and Undercurrents Deborah M. Netolicky and Naomi Barnes

Chapter 11. Concluding Thoughts, Provocations And Speculations on Education Research and Media Aspa Baroutsis, Pat Thomson and Stewart Riddle

List of Contributors

Index

Biography

Aspa Baroutsis is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Griffith Institute for Educational Research, Griffith University, Australia. Her research interests include social justice and education; education policy and mediatisation; teachers’ work and identity; and children’s voice and agency. Her most recent publication is about media mentalities and logics in Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.

Stewart Riddle is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Southern Queensland. His research interests include social justice and equity in education, music-based research practices and research methodologies.

Pat Thomson is Professor of Education in the School of Education, The University of Nottingham. Her research agenda is to further understandings about and practices of socially just pedagogies in schools and communities; she often focuses inquiry on the arts and alternative education. She writes, blogs and tweets about academic writing and doctoral education on patthomson.net