Reading Education Policy —
Abstract of

Asking Different Questions: Critical Analyses and Reading Research

Jacqueline Edmondson

The author describes two research frames—functionalist research and critical analyses—focusing on the different questions they raise. Her purpose is to suggest that reading researchers must extend the tendency to conduct policy-driven research toward critical and pragmatic questions about reading education, research, and policy.

[Note: This article is reprinted from Reading Research Quarterly, 37(1), 113–119. dx.doi.org/10.1598/RRQ.37.1.5]

Edmondson, J. (2005). Asking Different Questions: Critical Analyses and Reading Research. In P. Shannon, & J. Edmondson (Eds.), Reading Education Policy (pp. 284-297). Newark, DE: International Reading Association.