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College Composition and Communication, 1992
Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 1996
This article documents the reading of teen magazines by middle-class Euro-American seventh-grade ... more This article documents the reading of teen magazines by middle-class Euro-American seventh-grade girls. Examining the reading of teen zines as a literacy event provides an opportunity to explore how the girls perceive and construct their social roles and relationships as they enter a new cultural scene, the junior high school. Documenting this particular reading practice provides a window onto the complex social negotiations in operation as early adolescent females use literacy to shape emerging social roles. This study holds implications for literacy pedagogy that considers how textual representations serve to define and constrain social roles.
The English Journal, 1999
... In placing orders in fast-food restaurants, customers simply state their requests in a shorth... more ... In placing orders in fast-food restaurants, customers simply state their requests in a shorthand manner, as in "Big Mac, fries, Coke, to go." Contrast this talk with the ... For example, a group of students at Blaine High School in Blaine, Minnesota, decided to study a local comedy club ...
Educational Theory, 2016
In this essay Harry Boyte and Margaret Finders argue that addressing the " shrinkage &am... more In this essay Harry Boyte and Margaret Finders argue that addressing the " shrinkage " of education and democracy requires acting politically to reclaim and augment Deweyan agency-focused concepts of democracy and education. Looking at agency from the vantage of civic studies, which advances a politics of agency — a citizen politics that is different from ideological politics — and citizens as cocreators of political communities, Boyte and Finders explore the technocratic trends that have eclipsed agency. These disempower educators, students, and communities. Using the case study of the youth empowerment initiative Public Achievement and its translation into the Special Education Program and partnerships of Augsburg College, the authors conclude with an examination of how agentic practices have survived in " shadow spaces " in schools, how such spaces might be turned into " free spaces " for democratic change, and how teacher education needs to prepare " citizen teachers " as well as promoting pedagogies of empowerment. These suggest grounds for a movement of hope and democratic change.
English Education, 1999
... administrative reprimand would force him to reassess his position and address the content of ... more ... administrative reprimand would force him to reassess his position and address the content of Marvin's ... connections between the theories they have been study-ing and the classrooms they will inhabit. ... ex-amine and critique the practice of a textual teacher ("I wouldn't have done ...
Journal of Adolescent Adult Literacy, 2000
EJ622857 - Learning from Experience: Using Situated Performances in Writing Teacher Development.
Reading Research Quarterly, 2005
Curriculum and Instruction Master index for this series., 2012
NOTE: Please cite this chapter as follows: Alvermann, DE (2012). Is there a place for popular cul... more NOTE: Please cite this chapter as follows: Alvermann, DE (2012). Is there a place for popular culture in curriculum and classroom instruction?[The point position]. In AJ Eakle (Ed.), Curriculum and Instruction (Volume 2, pp. 214-220, 227-228).[Volume 2 is part of the series, Debating issues in American education (CJ Russo & AG Osborne, Jr., General Eds.).] Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Is There a Place for Popular Culture in Curriculum and Classroom Instruction? POINT Donna E. Alvermann The University of Georgia Introduction ...
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2013
Adolescents and literacies in a digital world. New York: Peter Lang, 2002
Kaleidoscope: Contemporary and Classic Readings in Education, Apr 17, 2009
In our roles as teachers and as parents, we have been privy to the conversations of both teachers... more In our roles as teachers and as parents, we have been privy to the conversations of both teachers and parents. Until recently, however, we did not acknowledge that our view of parental involvement conflicts with the views of many parents. It was not until we began talking with parents in different communities that we were forced to examine our own deeply seated assumptions about parental involvement.
College Composition and Communication, 1992
Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 1996
This article documents the reading of teen magazines by middle-class Euro-American seventh-grade ... more This article documents the reading of teen magazines by middle-class Euro-American seventh-grade girls. Examining the reading of teen zines as a literacy event provides an opportunity to explore how the girls perceive and construct their social roles and relationships as they enter a new cultural scene, the junior high school. Documenting this particular reading practice provides a window onto the complex social negotiations in operation as early adolescent females use literacy to shape emerging social roles. This study holds implications for literacy pedagogy that considers how textual representations serve to define and constrain social roles.
The English Journal, 1999
... In placing orders in fast-food restaurants, customers simply state their requests in a shorth... more ... In placing orders in fast-food restaurants, customers simply state their requests in a shorthand manner, as in "Big Mac, fries, Coke, to go." Contrast this talk with the ... For example, a group of students at Blaine High School in Blaine, Minnesota, decided to study a local comedy club ...
Educational Theory, 2016
In this essay Harry Boyte and Margaret Finders argue that addressing the " shrinkage &am... more In this essay Harry Boyte and Margaret Finders argue that addressing the " shrinkage " of education and democracy requires acting politically to reclaim and augment Deweyan agency-focused concepts of democracy and education. Looking at agency from the vantage of civic studies, which advances a politics of agency — a citizen politics that is different from ideological politics — and citizens as cocreators of political communities, Boyte and Finders explore the technocratic trends that have eclipsed agency. These disempower educators, students, and communities. Using the case study of the youth empowerment initiative Public Achievement and its translation into the Special Education Program and partnerships of Augsburg College, the authors conclude with an examination of how agentic practices have survived in " shadow spaces " in schools, how such spaces might be turned into " free spaces " for democratic change, and how teacher education needs to prepare " citizen teachers " as well as promoting pedagogies of empowerment. These suggest grounds for a movement of hope and democratic change.
English Education, 1999
... administrative reprimand would force him to reassess his position and address the content of ... more ... administrative reprimand would force him to reassess his position and address the content of Marvin's ... connections between the theories they have been study-ing and the classrooms they will inhabit. ... ex-amine and critique the practice of a textual teacher ("I wouldn't have done ...
Journal of Adolescent Adult Literacy, 2000
EJ622857 - Learning from Experience: Using Situated Performances in Writing Teacher Development.
Reading Research Quarterly, 2005
Curriculum and Instruction Master index for this series., 2012
NOTE: Please cite this chapter as follows: Alvermann, DE (2012). Is there a place for popular cul... more NOTE: Please cite this chapter as follows: Alvermann, DE (2012). Is there a place for popular culture in curriculum and classroom instruction?[The point position]. In AJ Eakle (Ed.), Curriculum and Instruction (Volume 2, pp. 214-220, 227-228).[Volume 2 is part of the series, Debating issues in American education (CJ Russo & AG Osborne, Jr., General Eds.).] Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Is There a Place for Popular Culture in Curriculum and Classroom Instruction? POINT Donna E. Alvermann The University of Georgia Introduction ...
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2013
Adolescents and literacies in a digital world. New York: Peter Lang, 2002
Kaleidoscope: Contemporary and Classic Readings in Education, Apr 17, 2009
In our roles as teachers and as parents, we have been privy to the conversations of both teachers... more In our roles as teachers and as parents, we have been privy to the conversations of both teachers and parents. Until recently, however, we did not acknowledge that our view of parental involvement conflicts with the views of many parents. It was not until we began talking with parents in different communities that we were forced to examine our own deeply seated assumptions about parental involvement.