Posted: September 13th, 2017

Literature Review Matrix (poverty)

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This assessment task requires you to identity an issue that relates to Social Justice in education. You are required to locate and review contemporary research that is pertinent to the issue. This assessment task provides you the opportunity to gain knowledge of the nature and methods for conducting teacher research, how research can improve teaching and learning, and how research is a part of teachers’ everyday work. This assessment task provides you with the opportunity to document, in Harvard format, and organize the literature that you read in the form of a matrix. The matrix provides you with a mental map of what you are reading and what the studies share in common. A literature matrix should be developed utilising ten sources of research. This may include research papers, journal articles, book chapters, and/or conference papers. You will make sense of the literature by determining the common categories, themes, or issues found across the literature.

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Identify an issue(I have chosen Poverty) that relates to Social Justice in education. Locate and review contemporary research that is pertinent to the issue. Organize a literature matrix that provides you with a mental map of what you are reading and what the studies share in common. This may include research papers, journal articles, book chapters, and/or conference papers.

Step 1: Immersing Yourself in the Professional Literature

After determining your area of interest, you will need to immerse yourself in the professional literature. You should read widely about your area of interestwhile also attempting to discover ‘promising’ practices developed and implemented by teacher researchers. I have chosen Poverty as the main issue

Step 2: Literature Matrix (1000 word equivalent)

The literature matrix must fit on one A4 piece of paper(landscape) and include the details of a minimum of ten sources(any issues related to poverty). The tabulated matrix should include the details of the article and 4-6 categories, themes, or issues that you have developed. Under each of these categories a short summary of how that category is evident in the article should be included. Categories can include the focus of the study, areas of the findings or research attribute categories. I only come up with 3 categories (social justice issue, implications for classroom practice, research methods), I need one more at least.

Step 3: Critical Discussion (500 words)

After completing your literature matrix, a discussion about your categories is required. You need to include the following:

1. Focus of review (a statement clearly describing the focus of your review)

2. Search strategy (describe how you actually went about your search, including:
   • Catalogues and databases used
   • Search parameters, such as date of publication, peer reviewed, geographical location, language of publication, type of publication, methodological approach, etc(which country the article is from,what’s the concept and relevance)
   • Criteria you used for including or not including material that you identified
   • Difficulties you experienced in sourcing good quality material)

3. Rationale (in one or two paragraphs, explain why you created the categories/themes/issues that you did)please answer why you chose poverty as the main issue, explain why and how you chose the concept (not the content), brainstorm a lot and have a range of perspectives.
4. Critical discussion (in one or two paragraphs, discuss how this review of literature has informed the ways you are currently thinking about your area of interest, and its implications for your preschool classroom practice)(include the implementation of this concept in your future teaching practices)