Kate Heron Pahl
Biographic Data
| ID | 813452 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kate Heron Pahl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kate Heron |
| FAMILY NAME | Pahl |
| SIGNATURE | PAHL K H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8840-1121 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 149 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
How can children and young people have a voice in urban treescapes
Scientific understanding of climate change has, to date, failed to result in sufficient action. This paper proposes that a deficit model of top‐down learning and dissemination in relation to public engagement with science may be part of the problem, particularly when considering the attitudes, values and empowerment of children and young people. Drawing on two cross‐university projects funded by the Future of UK Treescapes programme, in which chi…
Diversifying tree-child relations: Making the case for epistemological and methodological shifts in environmental education research
This article argues for embracing epistemological and methodological diversity in order to advance recent shifts in environmental education that call for alternative spaces for learning. The article narrates our fieldwork experiences of conducting creative research working with children aged 7–9 years old in two primary schools in England, while exploring the children’s immersive experiences with/of treescapes. Through featuring two case study ex…
Starting with trees: Between and beyond environmental education
This paper explores learning about environments with a focus on starting with trees. The paper examines children and young people's perceptions of and engagement with trees, as part of a large grant that sought to examine the dis/benefits of trees for children's lives and learning. In this paper, we attempt to move beyond notions of ‘education for sustainability’ in that we start with knowledges generated with trees. We are concerned that current…
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,…
Multilingual literacies: Romanian Roma children learning to read and write in an English primary school
The study sought to understand how three multilingual Romanian Roma learners approached and made sense of literacy-related activities in an English primary school so that this can illuminate classroom practice to ensure more inclusive forms of literacy education. The following research questions were addressed: (1) What are learners’ linguistic and cultural contexts? (2) What linguistic and communicative resources and attitudes to literacy do the…
Working with/beyond ‘language’: Insights from a listening walk with young men from asylum-seeking backgrounds in a rural treescape
This article articulates the affordances and challenges of researching with and beyond language on a listening walk with young men from asylumseeking backgrounds in a rural treescape. Offering methodological and conceptual provocations for creative multilingual research, the article does not (re)present a traditional research encounter with fixed methodologies and confident findings. Rather, it stories a research encounter, anchored in participat…
Lockdown literacies
Queering the Form: Zine-Making as Disruptive Practice
This article is an exploration of the zine as a form of practice that is radical and disruptive. It takes the form of six sections and has its own zine armature. It describes a zine workshop held in Kampala, Uganda, during lockdown, and constitutes a record of that event. The authors argue that zine-making is itself a form that can offer a queering of the status quo and can make authors of us all. It invites the reader into the space of the zine …
Literacy and language as material practices: Re-thinking social inequality in young children’s literacies
No description provided
‘Writing across’ as a mode of research
Co-producing research with communities: Emotions in community research
In this article we explore the ways in which universities and communities can work together drawing on our experience of a community-university co-produced project called ‘Imagine’. We reflect on our different experiences of working together and affectively co-produce the article, drawing on a conversation we held together. We locate our discussion within the projects we worked on. We look at the experiences of working across community and univer…
The Capaciousness of No: Affective Refusals as Literacy Practices
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…
Withdrawn: ‘Writing across’ as a mode of research
Recognizing Young People’s Civic Engagement Practices: Rethinking Literacy Ontologies through Co-Production
In this article I argue that it is important to find a language to describe youth engagement practices in informal settings. I argue that many young people do not have the resources to be heard on visible platforms, but their work, and meaning making practices might provide important information about their ideas and relay key concepts about how communicational practices are constructed. Drawing on embedded, ethnographic and artistically informed…
Learning from Ninjas: Young People's Films as a Lens for an Expanded View of Literacy and Language
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…
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…
Re-Imagining Artistic Subjectivities within Community Projects
In this article an artist and an academic consider how the idea of subjectivities manifests itself in community projects. Taking an example of an ‘artist-in-residence’ on a co-produced research project, the authors experientially consider how their work has been articulated and presented. We draw on a dialogue, jointly written on a research blog, to discuss this. We consider collective forms of theory building and whether it is possible to re-ima…
Language Socialization and Multimodality in Multilingual Urban Homes
Valuing Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research: Beyond Impact
Co-production: Towards a utopian approach
This article outlines how co-production might be understood as a utopian method, which both attends to and works against dominant inequalities. It suggests that it might be positioned ‘within, against, and beyond’ current configurations of power in academia and society more broadly. It develops this argument by drawing on recent research funded through the UK’s Connected Communities programme, led by the Arts and Humanities Research Council; and …
The University as the “Imagined Other: Making Sense of Community Co-Produced Literacy Research
The University as the “Imagined Other”Making Sense of Community Co-Produced Literacy Research Kate Pahl (bio) The motivation for working together is really less to do with bringing different skills to bear on a common problem but rather, it is this immediacy of response encountered in the discussion of ideas, combined with the consummate otherness of thought which the collaborative partner brings.1 Ian Rawlinson and Nick Crowe (2012) Writing With…
Art practice as methodological innovation: Is it sustainable
Who owns educational research? Disciplinary conundrums and considerations: A challenge to the funding councils and to education departments
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: The Significance of Subjectivity to New Literacies Research
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…
Co-production: Towards a utopian approach
This article outlines how co-production might be understood as a utopian method, which both attends to and works against dominant inequalities. It suggests that it might be positioned ‘within, against, and beyond’ current configurations of power in academia and society more broadly. It develops this argument by drawing on recent research funded through the UK’s Connected Communities programme, led by the Arts and Humanities Research Council; and …
Sedimented identities in texts: Instances of practice
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: Working at the Intersection
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: Affective Refusals as Literacy Practices
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: The Significance of Subjectivity to New Literacies Research
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…
Living Your Life Because it’s the Only Life You’ve Got’
This article explores the processes and practices of doing participatory research with children. It explores how this process can be represented in writing. The article comes out of a project funded by Creative Partnerships UK, in which a creative agent, three artists and a researcher all worked within an elementary school in South Yorkshire, UK, for two years, to focus on the children’s Reasons to Write. It considers whether it is truly possible…
An inventory of traces: Children’s photographs of their toys in three London homes
This article draws on a longitudinal ethnographic study of three London homes. It considers photographs taken by three 5-7 year old boys of collections of toys, arranged on floor spaces and bedrooms, and objects within homes. Two households were working class, and the third home middle class. Using the concept of the inventory, representations of toys and their semiotic affordances are considered. Time and space are considered with regard to the …
Queering the Form: Zine-Making as Disruptive Practice
This article is an exploration of the zine as a form of practice that is radical and disruptive. It takes the form of six sections and has its own zine armature. It describes a zine workshop held in Kampala, Uganda, during lockdown, and constitutes a record of that event. The authors argue that zine-making is itself a form that can offer a queering of the status quo and can make authors of us all. It invites the reader into the space of the zine …
The University as the “Imagined Other: Making Sense of Community Co-Produced Literacy Research
The University as the “Imagined Other”Making Sense of Community Co-Produced Literacy Research Kate Pahl (bio) The motivation for working together is really less to do with bringing different skills to bear on a common problem but rather, it is this immediacy of response encountered in the discussion of ideas, combined with the consummate otherness of thought which the collaborative partner brings.1 Ian Rawlinson and Nick Crowe (2012) Writing With…
Every Object Tells a Story: Intergenerational Stories and Objects in the Homes of Pakistani Heritage Families in South Yorkshire, UK
The article considers objects and stories within the homes of Pakistani Heritage families who came from Pakistan to the UK in the 1950s and 1960s. The research team particularly explored the relationship between objects and family stories and timescales. Part of the research process involved an ethnographic inquiry exploring the stories told by the families. An exhibition was constructed from these stories and a website. The experience of migrati…
Working with/beyond ‘language’: Insights from a listening walk with young men from asylum-seeking backgrounds in a rural treescape
This article articulates the affordances and challenges of researching with and beyond language on a listening walk with young men from asylumseeking backgrounds in a rural treescape. Offering methodological and conceptual provocations for creative multilingual research, the article does not (re)present a traditional research encounter with fixed methodologies and confident findings. Rather, it stories a research encounter, anchored in participat…
The Aesthetics of Everyday Literacies: Home Writing Practices in a British Asian Household
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…
Bling — the Asians introduced that to the country: Gold and its value within a group of families of South Asian origin in Yorkshire
This visual essay describes an exhibition that collected narratives of migration and artefacts from the homes of families of Pakistani origin from Rotherham, South Yorkshire. 1 The project was collaborative, involving a visual artist — Zahir Rafiq, who designed art work and the website (www.ferhamfamilies.com) — the Clifton Park Museum in Rotherham, Rotherham Central Sure Start and Ferham Primary School
Timescales and ethnography: Understanding a child's meaning-making across three sites, a home, a classroom and a family literacy class
This article describes a multi-sited ethnographic study of a Turkish child, Fatih, and his mother, Elif, over a period of three years. The study was a longitudinal ethnographic project that focused on children's multimodal texts in the home. Additional research was also carried out in the classroom. This article describes the researcher's developing understanding of the meanings of Fatih's texts, and considers how the use of time scales in ethnog…
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,…
Co-producing research with communities: Emotions in community research
In this article we explore the ways in which universities and communities can work together drawing on our experience of a community-university co-produced project called ‘Imagine’. We reflect on our different experiences of working together and affectively co-produce the article, drawing on a conversation we held together. We locate our discussion within the projects we worked on. We look at the experiences of working across community and univer…
Recognizing Young People’s Civic Engagement Practices: Rethinking Literacy Ontologies through Co-Production
In this article I argue that it is important to find a language to describe youth engagement practices in informal settings. I argue that many young people do not have the resources to be heard on visible platforms, but their work, and meaning making practices might provide important information about their ideas and relay key concepts about how communicational practices are constructed. Drawing on embedded, ethnographic and artistically informed…
Learning from Ninjas: Young People's Films as a Lens for an Expanded View of Literacy and Language
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 Artistic Subjectivities within Community Projects
In this article an artist and an academic consider how the idea of subjectivities manifests itself in community projects. Taking an example of an ‘artist-in-residence’ on a co-produced research project, the authors experientially consider how their work has been articulated and presented. We draw on a dialogue, jointly written on a research blog, to discuss this. We consider collective forms of theory building and whether it is possible to re-ima…
An inventory of traces: Children’s photographs of their toys in three London homes
This article draws on a longitudinal ethnographic study of three London homes. It considers photographs taken by three 5-7 year old boys of collections of toys, arranged on floor spaces and bedrooms, and objects within homes. Two households were working class, and the third home middle class. Using the concept of the inventory, representations of toys and their semiotic affordances are considered. Time and space are considered with regard to the …
Timescales and ethnography: Understanding a child's meaning-making across three sites, a home, a classroom and a family literacy class
This article describes a multi-sited ethnographic study of a Turkish child, Fatih, and his mother, Elif, over a period of three years. The study was a longitudinal ethnographic project that focused on children's multimodal texts in the home. Additional research was also carried out in the classroom. This article describes the researcher's developing understanding of the meanings of Fatih's texts, and considers how the use of time scales in ethnog…
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: Instances of practice
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…
Bling — the Asians introduced that to the country: Gold and its value within a group of families of South Asian origin in Yorkshire
This visual essay describes an exhibition that collected narratives of migration and artefacts from the homes of families of Pakistani origin from Rotherham, South Yorkshire. 1 The project was collaborative, involving a visual artist — Zahir Rafiq, who designed art work and the website (www.ferhamfamilies.com) — the Clifton Park Museum in Rotherham, Rotherham Central Sure Start and Ferham Primary School
The Case of the disappearing object: Narratives and artefacts in homes and a museum exhibition from Pakistani heritage families in South Yorkshire
This article describes a small-scale research project focused on a small group of families of Pakistani heritage who were interviewed about their possessions and the stories associated with those objects, in order to create an exhibition of intergenerational home objects. It looks at what happens when home objects are placed in a museum exhibition context. In particular, the article considers the phenomenon by which intergenerational objects that…
Living Your Life Because it’s the Only Life You’ve Got’
This article explores the processes and practices of doing participatory research with children. It explores how this process can be represented in writing. The article comes out of a project funded by Creative Partnerships UK, in which a creative agent, three artists and a researcher all worked within an elementary school in South Yorkshire, UK, for two years, to focus on the children’s Reasons to Write. It considers whether it is truly possible…
Multimodality and ethnography: Working at the Intersection
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…
Time and Space as a Resource for Meaning-Making by Children and Young People in Home and Community Settings
This study provides a close analysis of young people's multimodal texts produced in out-of-school contexts as part of a research project called ‘Writing in the Home and in the Street’, funded through the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Connected Communities programme. The study was carried out with three young people in a library and home setting. All of the young people in the study were girls aged between 12 and 13 years. Two were from w…
Every Object Tells a Story: Intergenerational Stories and Objects in the Homes of Pakistani Heritage Families in South Yorkshire, UK
The article considers objects and stories within the homes of Pakistani Heritage families who came from Pakistan to the UK in the 1950s and 1960s. The research team particularly explored the relationship between objects and family stories and timescales. Part of the research process involved an ethnographic inquiry exploring the stories told by the families. An exhibition was constructed from these stories and a website. The experience of migrati…
The (im)materiality of literacy: The Significance of Subjectivity to New Literacies Research
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: Home Writing Practices in a British Asian Household
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…
Art practice as methodological innovation: Is it sustainable
Who owns educational research? Disciplinary conundrums and considerations: A challenge to the funding councils and to education departments
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 University as the “Imagined Other: Making Sense of Community Co-Produced Literacy Research
The University as the “Imagined Other”Making Sense of Community Co-Produced Literacy Research Kate Pahl (bio) The motivation for working together is really less to do with bringing different skills to bear on a common problem but rather, it is this immediacy of response encountered in the discussion of ideas, combined with the consummate otherness of thought which the collaborative partner brings.1 Ian Rawlinson and Nick Crowe (2012) Writing With…
Language Socialization and Multimodality in Multilingual Urban Homes
Valuing Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research: Beyond Impact
Co-production: Towards a utopian approach
This article outlines how co-production might be understood as a utopian method, which both attends to and works against dominant inequalities. It suggests that it might be positioned ‘within, against, and beyond’ current configurations of power in academia and society more broadly. It develops this argument by drawing on recent research funded through the UK’s Connected Communities programme, led by the Arts and Humanities Research Council; and …
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…
Re-Imagining Artistic Subjectivities within Community Projects
In this article an artist and an academic consider how the idea of subjectivities manifests itself in community projects. Taking an example of an ‘artist-in-residence’ on a co-produced research project, the authors experientially consider how their work has been articulated and presented. We draw on a dialogue, jointly written on a research blog, to discuss this. We consider collective forms of theory building and whether it is possible to re-ima…
Withdrawn: ‘Writing across’ as a mode of research
Recognizing Young People’s Civic Engagement Practices: Rethinking Literacy Ontologies through Co-Production
In this article I argue that it is important to find a language to describe youth engagement practices in informal settings. I argue that many young people do not have the resources to be heard on visible platforms, but their work, and meaning making practices might provide important information about their ideas and relay key concepts about how communicational practices are constructed. Drawing on embedded, ethnographic and artistically informed…
Learning from Ninjas: Young People's Films as a Lens for an Expanded View of Literacy and Language
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…
Literacy and language as material practices: Re-thinking social inequality in young children’s literacies
No description provided
‘Writing across’ as a mode of research
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