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Papers by George L Boggs
The Handbook of Critical Literacies, 2021
The hierarchical organization of the teaching profession and traditional modes of education refor... more The hierarchical organization of the teaching profession and traditional modes of education reform discourse have created a simplistic view of teachers’, and especially urban teachers’ responsibility for quality in education. Historically, the structure of and content of education reform discourse has cast teachers in a static role and inhibited their active participation in discussions of educational policy. This paper contextualizes education reform discourse in relation to past educational crisis narratives to interpret recent shifts in the structure of education reform dialogue. Using Mikhail Bakhtin’s concepts of heteroglossia and addressivity, the authors examine contributions to online discussions and debate composed ostensibly by urban teachers in response to top-down reform discourses. The data were analyzed with respect to discursive choices and grouped subsequently as themed arguments and rhetorical moves. The authors argue that teachers’ strategic responses to education ...
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy
The contributors to this column are leaders and project organizers of a youth film project, and w... more The contributors to this column are leaders and project organizers of a youth film project, and we come to this project from different places academically and pedagogically. We are researchers and educators in literacy, art, and film searching for ethical pathways to partner with each other and with youths as they explore lives on both sides of the camera. Our group comprises about 10 teens and a handful of researchers from the local university and is supported by staff members at the teen center where the project is housed. The publicly funded teen center is an after-school and summer program that offers a diverse set of opportunities for learning, recreation, and other social supports, from snacks and basketball to a market garden and digital music production studio. The film club is one of the newest additions to the teen center's extra-curricular offerings. The project began casually in the summertime as Rachel's first research project as a new assistant professor. Assembling an ad hoc set of equipment, we filmed recreationally as an excuse to do something together during the long days of summer break. We took lots of footage and edited a few videos. We filmed video gaming and hip-hop dancing and uploaded videos strategically that position the teens as producers within established YouTube genres.
English Language Teaching, 2016
&... more <p>Twenty-first-century literacy is not confined to communication based on reading and writing only traditional printed texts. New kinds of literacies extend to multimedia projects and multimodal texts, which include visual, audio, and technological elements to create meanings. The purpose of this study is to explore how Korean secondary English teachers understand the 21<sup>st</sup> literacies and multimodal composition in this era of new types of communication. Framing the study are questions pertaining to what these teachers think about teaching multimodal composition in their writing classrooms. The schools of South Korea, including those in this study, prioritize high-stakes standardized tests, and teachers as well as students and parents gauge success by these test scores. As a result, teachers primarily rely on direct instruction via lectures to provide skills and knowledge to ensure that students will succeed in the high-stakes tests. So while teaching and assessment practices in the classroom still adhere to traditional approaches, ongoing technology outside school has transformed the ways in which young people – the students – generate, communicate, and negotiate meanings via diverse texts. If the primary goal of education is to teach students lifelong skills needed in society, it is the responsibility of schools and teachers to recognize social changes and promote individual learning needs.</p>
Handbook of Research on the Societal Impact of Digital Media, 2016
The purpose of this integrative review of theory and research is to assess the economic impact of... more The purpose of this integrative review of theory and research is to assess the economic impact of digital media in ways that are unreached by instrumental means of measuring economic activity. Specifically, we use three overarching arguments identified from a review of the literature that broadly defines the economic force of digital media content in contemporary society. We contextualize those arguments in terms of current issues in the field and gaps in the research base before concluding with a discussion of the implications of what we learned for education, civic engagement, social practice, and policy.
The purpose of this integrative review of theory and research is to assess the economic impact of... more The purpose of this integrative review of theory and research is to assess the economic impact of digital media in ways that are unreached by instrumental means of measuring economic activity. Specifically, we use three overarching arguments identified from a review of the literature that broadly defines the economic force of digital media content in contemporary society. We contextualize those arguments in terms of current issues in the field and gaps in the research base before concluding with a discussion of the implications of what we learned for education, civic engagement, social practice, and policy.
Digital Networking for School Reform, 2014
It is tempting and even useful to imagine stable camps in a warlike contest over common interests... more It is tempting and even useful to imagine stable camps in a warlike contest over common interests in school reform, and it is an ingrained national tradition to portray meaningful struggle between camps, with Jimmy Stewart or Sidney Poitier playing the good guy in the movie version. Web 2.0 activism, a type of critical literacy, challenges that view as teachers and parents, long positioned in the backseat in national education reform, are increasingly able to drive, organize, and disagree with self-selected protagonists of positive change. In this chapter, we examine the connections among Critical Digital Literacies (CDL) and the struggle over what is “common” among stakeholders in American education. Chapter in Digital Networking for School Reform: The Online Grassroots Efforts of Parent and Teacher Activists. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. doi: 10.1057/9781137430748.0006.
Dialogic Pedagogy: An International Online Journal, 2016
Journal of Research in Character Education, Jul 1, 2010
Abstract: This study combines data from three case studies of teachers moving from their universi... more Abstract: This study combines data from three case studies of teachers moving from their university teacher education programs into their first jobs, with data collected through observations and interviews totaling six observation cycles over the 2 years of data ...
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The Handbook of Critical Literacies, 2021
The hierarchical organization of the teaching profession and traditional modes of education refor... more The hierarchical organization of the teaching profession and traditional modes of education reform discourse have created a simplistic view of teachers’, and especially urban teachers’ responsibility for quality in education. Historically, the structure of and content of education reform discourse has cast teachers in a static role and inhibited their active participation in discussions of educational policy. This paper contextualizes education reform discourse in relation to past educational crisis narratives to interpret recent shifts in the structure of education reform dialogue. Using Mikhail Bakhtin’s concepts of heteroglossia and addressivity, the authors examine contributions to online discussions and debate composed ostensibly by urban teachers in response to top-down reform discourses. The data were analyzed with respect to discursive choices and grouped subsequently as themed arguments and rhetorical moves. The authors argue that teachers’ strategic responses to education ...
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy
The contributors to this column are leaders and project organizers of a youth film project, and w... more The contributors to this column are leaders and project organizers of a youth film project, and we come to this project from different places academically and pedagogically. We are researchers and educators in literacy, art, and film searching for ethical pathways to partner with each other and with youths as they explore lives on both sides of the camera. Our group comprises about 10 teens and a handful of researchers from the local university and is supported by staff members at the teen center where the project is housed. The publicly funded teen center is an after-school and summer program that offers a diverse set of opportunities for learning, recreation, and other social supports, from snacks and basketball to a market garden and digital music production studio. The film club is one of the newest additions to the teen center's extra-curricular offerings. The project began casually in the summertime as Rachel's first research project as a new assistant professor. Assembling an ad hoc set of equipment, we filmed recreationally as an excuse to do something together during the long days of summer break. We took lots of footage and edited a few videos. We filmed video gaming and hip-hop dancing and uploaded videos strategically that position the teens as producers within established YouTube genres.
English Language Teaching, 2016
&... more <p>Twenty-first-century literacy is not confined to communication based on reading and writing only traditional printed texts. New kinds of literacies extend to multimedia projects and multimodal texts, which include visual, audio, and technological elements to create meanings. The purpose of this study is to explore how Korean secondary English teachers understand the 21<sup>st</sup> literacies and multimodal composition in this era of new types of communication. Framing the study are questions pertaining to what these teachers think about teaching multimodal composition in their writing classrooms. The schools of South Korea, including those in this study, prioritize high-stakes standardized tests, and teachers as well as students and parents gauge success by these test scores. As a result, teachers primarily rely on direct instruction via lectures to provide skills and knowledge to ensure that students will succeed in the high-stakes tests. So while teaching and assessment practices in the classroom still adhere to traditional approaches, ongoing technology outside school has transformed the ways in which young people – the students – generate, communicate, and negotiate meanings via diverse texts. If the primary goal of education is to teach students lifelong skills needed in society, it is the responsibility of schools and teachers to recognize social changes and promote individual learning needs.</p>
Handbook of Research on the Societal Impact of Digital Media, 2016
The purpose of this integrative review of theory and research is to assess the economic impact of... more The purpose of this integrative review of theory and research is to assess the economic impact of digital media in ways that are unreached by instrumental means of measuring economic activity. Specifically, we use three overarching arguments identified from a review of the literature that broadly defines the economic force of digital media content in contemporary society. We contextualize those arguments in terms of current issues in the field and gaps in the research base before concluding with a discussion of the implications of what we learned for education, civic engagement, social practice, and policy.
The purpose of this integrative review of theory and research is to assess the economic impact of... more The purpose of this integrative review of theory and research is to assess the economic impact of digital media in ways that are unreached by instrumental means of measuring economic activity. Specifically, we use three overarching arguments identified from a review of the literature that broadly defines the economic force of digital media content in contemporary society. We contextualize those arguments in terms of current issues in the field and gaps in the research base before concluding with a discussion of the implications of what we learned for education, civic engagement, social practice, and policy.
Digital Networking for School Reform, 2014
It is tempting and even useful to imagine stable camps in a warlike contest over common interests... more It is tempting and even useful to imagine stable camps in a warlike contest over common interests in school reform, and it is an ingrained national tradition to portray meaningful struggle between camps, with Jimmy Stewart or Sidney Poitier playing the good guy in the movie version. Web 2.0 activism, a type of critical literacy, challenges that view as teachers and parents, long positioned in the backseat in national education reform, are increasingly able to drive, organize, and disagree with self-selected protagonists of positive change. In this chapter, we examine the connections among Critical Digital Literacies (CDL) and the struggle over what is “common” among stakeholders in American education. Chapter in Digital Networking for School Reform: The Online Grassroots Efforts of Parent and Teacher Activists. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. doi: 10.1057/9781137430748.0006.
Dialogic Pedagogy: An International Online Journal, 2016
Journal of Research in Character Education, Jul 1, 2010
Abstract: This study combines data from three case studies of teachers moving from their universi... more Abstract: This study combines data from three case studies of teachers moving from their university teacher education programs into their first jobs, with data collected through observations and interviews totaling six observation cycles over the 2 years of data ...
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 10749030903312520, Jan 14, 2011