Application of ideas: Constructing your own literature map

Construct a literature map for the area of education that you are interested in researching.

Guidelines for helping you to construct a literature map:

• identify emerging themes from your reading and write each of these on separate post-it notes to create headings
• stick these onto a large piece of paper and highlight the key terms on each
• look through your sources (paper based or electronic) searching for these key terms
• make lists of the authors (and possibly relevant page numbers) who refer to one of the emerging themes on a post-it and stick next to the appropriate heading
• repeat for each of the emerging themes
• move the post-its around and explore how the different themes link together