Inquiry-based reading – Towards a conception of reading as a research method
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12712816 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lina Katan (0000-0002-4780-110X, University of Copenhagen), Charlotte Baarts (0000-0001-8919-4603, University of Copenhagen, corresponding author), Charlotte Andreas Baarts (University of Copenhagen) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 58-75 |
| Publication date | 2018-02-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Arts and Humanities in Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1474-0222 • E-ISSN: 1741-265X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1474022218760261 |
| OpenAlex | W2889451546 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 26 |
Reading is an activity in which both researchers and students invest immense time and energy. However, reading is disregarded as a research method and generally assigned a marginal position as a mere supplement to empirical hands-on methods. In this article we argue that reading should be recognized as a method of inquiry. Based on qualitative interviews with 20 researchers from a humanities department, we explore how researchers read, and we show how reading contributes significantly to their knowledge production. We argue that the concepts of ‘close reading’ and ‘surface reading’ in addition to ‘deep approach’ and ‘surface approach’ insufficiently convey how researchers read. Instead we propose the concept 'Inquiry-Based Reading' for designating the specific orientation towards texts that characterizes how researchers practise reading to further their research. Finally, we suggest that the conceptualization of inquiry-based reading could open up new discussions about the current position of reading in methods curriculum
Conceptualization · Curriculum · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Qualitative research · Reading (process · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Digital Storytelling and Education · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Evaluation of Teaching Practices · Philosophy · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
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Overcoming Barriers to Student Understanding
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Questioning Qualitative Inquiry
The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences
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Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences
Reading to learn
Reading lists
The Way We Read Now”
Teaching close reading
The affects of not reading
Comparing Lecturer and Student Accounts of Reading in the Humanities
Closeness and distance
On Qualitative Differences in Learning
Close but not Deep
Surface Reading
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1.4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |