Reviewing for comprehensive exams has actually been kind of fun so far (I'm a nerd like that). You kind of get to this point where you've taken all these classes and tried to digest a lot of material, but you keep coming back to something that centers you, or something that seems to be your filter, interest, reason to keep going. Is that what they meant by "research interests?"
I have to admit, the broad field of discourse studies and youth studies and cultural studies are this triangular three dimensional position that seem to keep popping up. I keep saying to myself, "what is being said, who is saying it, and how is it being said..."
"who cares? i.e. how does this impact a solid pedagogical or relational experience working with and for youth... or how does this reify or reanct youth ...
"what's the bigger picture - how do the larger cultural constructions of what counts as literacy, knowledge, etc. make the connection to the discourse and youth studies I am interested in?"
Having said this, I'm at the point where I'm not content with the angle (I never was) of bilingual education but rather I'm much more attune with the angle of multiple literacies. It seems as though this angle brings into the construction of literacy that includes globalization and transnational perspectives etc.
So, now, I'm kind of excited about filtering my comprehensive exams through the multiple literacies frame of reference!
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