Kate Pahl
Biographic Data
| ID | 3638755 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kate Pahl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kate |
| FAMILY NAME | Pahl |
| SIGNATURE | PAHL K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Attending to children's voices within environmental education
The article reports on a study that explores children's epistemologies of the environment. We drew on Nxumalo's (2016) concept of 'refiguring presences' as a conceptual and methodological orientation. Such an orientation develops an expansive understanding of voice, encourages researchers to resist absences and erasures, and braids together activities of attending, remembering, disrupting, and imagining. Based on a study in a diverse multilingual…
Giving up the 'Good Research Child
Do you like apples? Do you want to plant trees? Do you love books? Qualitative research with children is peppered with vignettes of what we conceptualise as the 'Good Research Child'. Good Research Children tell stories, plant trees, eat healthily, love reading and engage enthusiastically with researchers as co-playmates. They explore the world with drawings and oral stories and are enthusiastically portrayed by their adult researchers as unique,…
Multimodality and Multilingualism
‘Writing across’ as a mode of research
The Capaciousness of No
The authors considered the capacious feeling that emerges from saying no to literacy practices, and the affective potential of saying no as a literacy practice. The authors highlight the affective possibilities of saying no to normative understandings of literacy, thinking with a series of vignettes in which children, young people, and teachers refused literacy practices in different ways. The authors use the term capacious to signal possibilitie…
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Learning from Ninjas
This article examines young people’s films to provide insights about language and literacy practices. It offers a heuristic for thinking about how to approach data that is collectively produced. It tries to make sense of new ways of knowing that locate the research in the field rather than in the academic domain. The authors develop a lens for looking at films made by young people that acknowledge multiple modes and materiality within their meani…
Re-imagining Contested Communities
Re-Imagining Contested Communities
This is a book that challenges contemporary images of place. Too often we are told about deprived neighbourhoods but rarely do the people who live in those communities get to shape the agenda and describe, from their perspective, what is important to them. In this book the process of re-imagining comes to the fore in a fresh and contemporary look at one UK town, Rotherham. Using history, artistic practice, writing, poetry, autobiography, and coll…
Modes of Communication in Cross‐Cultural Contexts
Building on a longer history of intellectual work that combines a grounded, contextual perspective on people's meaning making with an account of design and multimodality, the entry presents past and current scholarship that merges ethnography with multimodal meaning making. It also takes account of aesthetics and work in the field of the new materialism and participatory research methodologies. Moving from major developments in the field to turns…
Language Socialization and Multimodality in Multilingual Urban Homes
Valuing Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research
Who owns educational research? Disciplinary conundrums and considerations
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider the dynamics of submitting arts-based research in a climate that is dominated, in the UK, by the social sciences. Design/methodology/approach – It begins by taking a view on arts-based research, considering mainly Eisner and Dewey but exploring the possibilities of other forms such as baroque research. It goes on to look at some examples of arts-based research that has been carried out, funded by…
The (im)materiality of literacy
This article deconstructs the online and offline experience to show its complexities and idiosyncratic nature. It proposes a theoretical framework designed to conceptualise aspects of meaning-making across on- and offline contexts. In arguing for the ‘(im)materiality’ of literacy, it makes four propositions which highlight the complex and diverse relationships between the immaterial and material associated with meaning-making. Complementing exist…
The Aesthetics of Everyday Literacies
This article explores young people's home literacy practices drawing on an ethnographic study of writing in the home of a British Asian family living in northern England. The theoretical framework comes from the New Literacy Studies, and aesthetic and literary theory. It applies an ethnographic methodology together with an engaged approach to coproduction with young people. The article explores three instances of home writing in relation to texti…
Multimodality and ethnography
INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL ISSUE \nThis special issue of Qualitative Research was produced in the context of a comparatively recent surge in qualitative ‘multimodal’ research. A number of scholars from diverse disciplinary and theoretical traditions have turned to multimodality in their endeavours to understand everyday communication and interaction in contemporary social life, often foregrounding certain tensions with more established research trad…
Language in late modernity
Studies in Interactional Linguistics 22 Ben Rampton, 2006 Cambridge, Cambridge University Press £55 (hbk), 443 pp. ISBN‐13: 9780521812634, ISBN‐10: 0521812631 Language in Late Modernity is a rare b
Sedimented identities in texts
S The commentary argues for an understanding of how texts are put together that accounts for multimodality and draws on children's ways of being and doing in the home, their habitus. It focuses on identities as socially situated. It argues that it is important to trace the process of sedimenting identities during text production. This offers a way of viewing text production that can inform research into children's text making. Particular attentio…
Sedimented identities in texts
S The commentary argues for an understanding of how texts are put together that accounts for multimodality and draws on children's ways of being and doing in the home, their habitus. It focuses on identities as socially situated. It argues that it is important to trace the process of sedimenting identities during text production. This offers a way of viewing text production that can inform research into children's text making. Particular attentio…
Multimodality and ethnography
INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL ISSUE \nThis special issue of Qualitative Research was produced in the context of a comparatively recent surge in qualitative ‘multimodal’ research. A number of scholars from diverse disciplinary and theoretical traditions have turned to multimodality in their endeavours to understand everyday communication and interaction in contemporary social life, often foregrounding certain tensions with more established research trad…
The Capaciousness of No
The authors considered the capacious feeling that emerges from saying no to literacy practices, and the affective potential of saying no as a literacy practice. The authors highlight the affective possibilities of saying no to normative understandings of literacy, thinking with a series of vignettes in which children, young people, and teachers refused literacy practices in different ways. The authors use the term capacious to signal possibilitie…
The (im)materiality of literacy
This article deconstructs the online and offline experience to show its complexities and idiosyncratic nature. It proposes a theoretical framework designed to conceptualise aspects of meaning-making across on- and offline contexts. In arguing for the ‘(im)materiality’ of literacy, it makes four propositions which highlight the complex and diverse relationships between the immaterial and material associated with meaning-making. Complementing exist…
The Aesthetics of Everyday Literacies
This article explores young people's home literacy practices drawing on an ethnographic study of writing in the home of a British Asian family living in northern England. The theoretical framework comes from the New Literacy Studies, and aesthetic and literary theory. It applies an ethnographic methodology together with an engaged approach to coproduction with young people. The article explores three instances of home writing in relation to texti…
Giving up the 'Good Research Child
Do you like apples? Do you want to plant trees? Do you love books? Qualitative research with children is peppered with vignettes of what we conceptualise as the 'Good Research Child'. Good Research Children tell stories, plant trees, eat healthily, love reading and engage enthusiastically with researchers as co-playmates. They explore the world with drawings and oral stories and are enthusiastically portrayed by their adult researchers as unique,…
Learning from Ninjas
This article examines young people’s films to provide insights about language and literacy practices. It offers a heuristic for thinking about how to approach data that is collectively produced. It tries to make sense of new ways of knowing that locate the research in the field rather than in the academic domain. The authors develop a lens for looking at films made by young people that acknowledge multiple modes and materiality within their meani…
Language in late modernity
Studies in Interactional Linguistics 22 Ben Rampton, 2006 Cambridge, Cambridge University Press £55 (hbk), 443 pp. ISBN‐13: 9780521812634, ISBN‐10: 0521812631 Language in Late Modernity is a rare b
Sedimented identities in texts
S The commentary argues for an understanding of how texts are put together that accounts for multimodality and draws on children's ways of being and doing in the home, their habitus. It focuses on identities as socially situated. It argues that it is important to trace the process of sedimenting identities during text production. This offers a way of viewing text production that can inform research into children's text making. Particular attentio…
Multimodality and ethnography
INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL ISSUE \nThis special issue of Qualitative Research was produced in the context of a comparatively recent surge in qualitative ‘multimodal’ research. A number of scholars from diverse disciplinary and theoretical traditions have turned to multimodality in their endeavours to understand everyday communication and interaction in contemporary social life, often foregrounding certain tensions with more established research trad…
The (im)materiality of literacy
This article deconstructs the online and offline experience to show its complexities and idiosyncratic nature. It proposes a theoretical framework designed to conceptualise aspects of meaning-making across on- and offline contexts. In arguing for the ‘(im)materiality’ of literacy, it makes four propositions which highlight the complex and diverse relationships between the immaterial and material associated with meaning-making. Complementing exist…
The Aesthetics of Everyday Literacies
This article explores young people's home literacy practices drawing on an ethnographic study of writing in the home of a British Asian family living in northern England. The theoretical framework comes from the New Literacy Studies, and aesthetic and literary theory. It applies an ethnographic methodology together with an engaged approach to coproduction with young people. The article explores three instances of home writing in relation to texti…
Who owns educational research? Disciplinary conundrums and considerations
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider the dynamics of submitting arts-based research in a climate that is dominated, in the UK, by the social sciences. Design/methodology/approach – It begins by taking a view on arts-based research, considering mainly Eisner and Dewey but exploring the possibilities of other forms such as baroque research. It goes on to look at some examples of arts-based research that has been carried out, funded by…
Language Socialization and Multimodality in Multilingual Urban Homes
Valuing Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research
Re-imagining Contested Communities
Re-Imagining Contested Communities
This is a book that challenges contemporary images of place. Too often we are told about deprived neighbourhoods but rarely do the people who live in those communities get to shape the agenda and describe, from their perspective, what is important to them. In this book the process of re-imagining comes to the fore in a fresh and contemporary look at one UK town, Rotherham. Using history, artistic practice, writing, poetry, autobiography, and coll…
Modes of Communication in Cross‐Cultural Contexts
Building on a longer history of intellectual work that combines a grounded, contextual perspective on people's meaning making with an account of design and multimodality, the entry presents past and current scholarship that merges ethnography with multimodal meaning making. It also takes account of aesthetics and work in the field of the new materialism and participatory research methodologies. Moving from major developments in the field to turns…
Withdrawn
Learning from Ninjas
This article examines young people’s films to provide insights about language and literacy practices. It offers a heuristic for thinking about how to approach data that is collectively produced. It tries to make sense of new ways of knowing that locate the research in the field rather than in the academic domain. The authors develop a lens for looking at films made by young people that acknowledge multiple modes and materiality within their meani…
‘Writing across’ as a mode of research
The Capaciousness of No
The authors considered the capacious feeling that emerges from saying no to literacy practices, and the affective potential of saying no as a literacy practice. The authors highlight the affective possibilities of saying no to normative understandings of literacy, thinking with a series of vignettes in which children, young people, and teachers refused literacy practices in different ways. The authors use the term capacious to signal possibilitie…
Multimodality and Multilingualism
Attending to children's voices within environmental education
The article reports on a study that explores children's epistemologies of the environment. We drew on Nxumalo's (2016) concept of 'refiguring presences' as a conceptual and methodological orientation. Such an orientation develops an expansive understanding of voice, encourages researchers to resist absences and erasures, and braids together activities of attending, remembering, disrupting, and imagining. Based on a study in a diverse multilingual…
Giving up the 'Good Research Child
Do you like apples? Do you want to plant trees? Do you love books? Qualitative research with children is peppered with vignettes of what we conceptualise as the 'Good Research Child'. Good Research Children tell stories, plant trees, eat healthily, love reading and engage enthusiastically with researchers as co-playmates. They explore the world with drawings and oral stories and are enthusiastically portrayed by their adult researchers as unique,…
Sociology (14 works) · Anthropology (8 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Pedagogy (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Ethnography (6 works) · Literacy (6 works) · Literacy, Media, and Education (6 works)