In:Innovative Qualitative Methodologies in Multilingual Literacy Development Research: Amplifying voices from immigrant, transnational, and refugee communities
Edited by Amanda K. Kibler and Fares J. Karam
[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics 11] 2025
► pp. 261–264
Chapter 14Conclusion: Innovative research on multilingual literacy development
New directions for methodology
Published online: 7 April 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/rmal.11.14kib
https://doi.org/10.1075/rmal.11.14kib
Abstract
In this concluding chapter to the volume, Innovative Qualitative Methodologies in Multilingual
Literacy Development Research: Amplifying Voices from Immigrant, Transnational, and Refugee Communities,
we argue for the importance of responsive, inclusive, and ecological epistemologies in guiding researchers engaged in
critical and equity-oriented qualitative research in multilingual contexts. We close with implications for qualitative
literacy researchers as they rethink data, theory, and positionality in their work.
Keywords: qualitative, literacy, multilingual, methodology, innovation, equity
Article outline
- Introduction
- The value of responsive, inclusive, and ecological stances for equity-oriented research
- The ethical motivation to be literacy researchers on the move
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