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Journal of Negro Education
The use of African American vernacular English among a group of secondary school students who par... more The use of African American vernacular English among a group of secondary school students who participated in a digital media course as part of a pre-college summer enrichment program is examined. The study has highlighted the utility and importance of creating socially and ...
Climate change is a divisive issue in the United States. Although there is consensus in the scien... more Climate change is a divisive issue in the United States. Although there is consensus in the scientific research community that human-caused (anthropogenic) climate change is happening, with 97% of scientists in agreement (Cook et al., 2013; Oreskes, 2004), there is no such agreement among the general public. People in the United States have varied perspectives on climate change (Leiserowitz et al., 2014; Leiserowitz, Maibach, Roser-Renouf, & Smith, 2011; Leiserowitz & Smith, 2010), which can be traced to different political leanings, values, or cultural worldviews (Kahan et al., 2012; Leiserowitz et al., 2011; Lombardi & Sinatra, 2012; McCright & Dunlap, 2011; Weber & Stern, 2011). Given this context, it is not surprising that there has been a tepid response to climate change in K–12 classrooms (Tutu, 2010), especially in the United States. Our goal in this article is to better understand how preservice teachers read online sources about climate change. With an emphasis on how these...
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2016
Climate change is a divisive issue in the United States. Although there is consensus in the scien... more Climate change is a divisive issue in the United States. Although there is consensus in the scientific research community that human-caused (anthropogenic) climate change is happening, with 97% of scientists in agreement (Cook et al., 2013; Oreskes, 2004), there is no such agreement among the general public. People in the United States have varied perspectives on climate change (Leiserowitz et al., 2014; Leiserowitz, Maibach, Roser-Renouf, & Smith, 2011; Leiserowitz & Smith, 2010), which can be traced to different political leanings, values, or cultural worldviews (Kahan et al., 2012; Leiserowitz et al., 2011; Lombardi & Sinatra, 2012; McCright & Dunlap, 2011; Weber & Stern, 2011). Given this context, it is not surprising that there has been a tepid response to climate change in K–12 classrooms (Tutu, 2010), especially in the United States. Our goal in this article is to better understand how preservice teachers read online sources about climate change. With an emphasis on how these students evaluate how texts work (Freebody & Luke, 1990), our particular inquiry centers on the question, What happened when 65 undergraduate preservice secondary-level teachers across content areas read and evaluated the reliability of four online sources about climate change? Implications of this work point to the ways that educators can guide students in varied contexts to more carefully engage with a range of sources about a complex topic.
Social Education, Oct 1, 2011
Social Education, Apr 1, 2006
Children S Literature in Education, Jun 1, 2008
... Situating ourselves within the vast and diverse field of reader response theory and criticism... more ... Situating ourselves within the vast and diverse field of reader response theory and criticism (eg ... is extremely limited and oversimplified; while we recognize that in our oversimplification we ... assuming that contemporary African American readers will be ashamed by images of their ...
The Journal of Negro Education, 2007
The use of African American vernacular English among a group of secondary school students who par... more The use of African American vernacular English among a group of secondary school students who participated in a digital media course as part of a pre-college summer enrichment program is examined. The study has highlighted the utility and importance of creating socially and ...
Reading Online, 2001
Classroom literacy practices are necessarily grounded in historical and philosophical traditions,... more Classroom literacy practices are necessarily grounded in historical and philosophical traditions, and these traditions provide a lens for distinguishing those practices. Our goal in this article is to examine the assumptions that underlie two pedadogical approaches to ...
Voices from the Middle, Dec 1, 2008
Abstract: This article explores our work with African American youth in an after-school community... more Abstract: This article explores our work with African American youth in an after-school community literacy program. We examine how a group of these students used a set of Internet-based technology tools to evaluate whether or not a group of colleges would affirm their cultural identity and help them succeed. What we learned from the students has caused us to rethink the relationships between college exploration, access, cultural identity, and students' potential academic success.
Language Arts, Jan 10, 2005
Language Arts, Sep 1, 2004
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Language Arts, Sep 1, 2006
... My ERIC Login Register to Use My ERIC. Facebook. Help Tutorial Help | Tutorial Help | Tutoria... more ... My ERIC Login Register to Use My ERIC. Facebook. Help Tutorial Help | Tutorial Help | Tutorial Help With This Page. ... Title: Exploring Freedom and Leaving a Legacy: Enacting New Literacies with Digital Texts in the Elementary Classroom. Authors: Damico, James; Riddle, Ruthie ...
Critical Literacy Theories and Practices, Mar 29, 2012
Since the inauguration of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) in the United States, with ... more Since the inauguration of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) in the United States, with a billion-dollar budget to induce educational reform, American schools have been under the microscope for meeting accountability standards for students. The performance pressures have intensified as the consequences for not achieving academic benchmarks have escalated.
The Reading Teacher, 2005
Children's Literature in Education, 2008
... Situating ourselves within the vast and diverse field of reader response theory and criticism... more ... Situating ourselves within the vast and diverse field of reader response theory and criticism (eg ... is extremely limited and oversimplified; while we recognize that in our oversimplification we ... assuming that contemporary African American readers will be ashamed by images of their ...
The Teachers College Record, 2009
... institutional constraints have been increasingly shaping classroom Page 4. 1166 Teachers Coll... more ... institutional constraints have been increasingly shaping classroom Page 4. 1166 Teachers College Record practices (Darling-Hammond, 2007; Valencia & Villarreal, 2003). As liter-ature curricula and instructional goals continue ...
We thank the following people who helped review manuscripts that were submitted to Pedagogies: An... more We thank the following people who helped review manuscripts that were submitted to Pedagogies: An International Journal for Volume 1. ... Ahmad Khalid Ahmad Wan Shun Eva Lam Roslyn Appleby Cynthia Lewis Elsa Auerbach Lim Cher Ping Helena Austin Karen L. Lowenstein Heesoon Bai Bernard McKenna Mark C. Baildon Erica McWilliam Charles Bazerman Brian Morgan Courtney B. Cazden Johan Muller Pam Christine Uma Natarajan Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen Helen Nixon James Damico Mark Olssen Deng Zong Yi William F. Pinar Judith ...
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2011
Journal of Negro Education
The use of African American vernacular English among a group of secondary school students who par... more The use of African American vernacular English among a group of secondary school students who participated in a digital media course as part of a pre-college summer enrichment program is examined. The study has highlighted the utility and importance of creating socially and ...
Climate change is a divisive issue in the United States. Although there is consensus in the scien... more Climate change is a divisive issue in the United States. Although there is consensus in the scientific research community that human-caused (anthropogenic) climate change is happening, with 97% of scientists in agreement (Cook et al., 2013; Oreskes, 2004), there is no such agreement among the general public. People in the United States have varied perspectives on climate change (Leiserowitz et al., 2014; Leiserowitz, Maibach, Roser-Renouf, & Smith, 2011; Leiserowitz & Smith, 2010), which can be traced to different political leanings, values, or cultural worldviews (Kahan et al., 2012; Leiserowitz et al., 2011; Lombardi & Sinatra, 2012; McCright & Dunlap, 2011; Weber & Stern, 2011). Given this context, it is not surprising that there has been a tepid response to climate change in K–12 classrooms (Tutu, 2010), especially in the United States. Our goal in this article is to better understand how preservice teachers read online sources about climate change. With an emphasis on how these...
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2016
Climate change is a divisive issue in the United States. Although there is consensus in the scien... more Climate change is a divisive issue in the United States. Although there is consensus in the scientific research community that human-caused (anthropogenic) climate change is happening, with 97% of scientists in agreement (Cook et al., 2013; Oreskes, 2004), there is no such agreement among the general public. People in the United States have varied perspectives on climate change (Leiserowitz et al., 2014; Leiserowitz, Maibach, Roser-Renouf, & Smith, 2011; Leiserowitz & Smith, 2010), which can be traced to different political leanings, values, or cultural worldviews (Kahan et al., 2012; Leiserowitz et al., 2011; Lombardi & Sinatra, 2012; McCright & Dunlap, 2011; Weber & Stern, 2011). Given this context, it is not surprising that there has been a tepid response to climate change in K–12 classrooms (Tutu, 2010), especially in the United States. Our goal in this article is to better understand how preservice teachers read online sources about climate change. With an emphasis on how these students evaluate how texts work (Freebody & Luke, 1990), our particular inquiry centers on the question, What happened when 65 undergraduate preservice secondary-level teachers across content areas read and evaluated the reliability of four online sources about climate change? Implications of this work point to the ways that educators can guide students in varied contexts to more carefully engage with a range of sources about a complex topic.
Social Education, Oct 1, 2011
Social Education, Apr 1, 2006
Children S Literature in Education, Jun 1, 2008
... Situating ourselves within the vast and diverse field of reader response theory and criticism... more ... Situating ourselves within the vast and diverse field of reader response theory and criticism (eg ... is extremely limited and oversimplified; while we recognize that in our oversimplification we ... assuming that contemporary African American readers will be ashamed by images of their ...
The Journal of Negro Education, 2007
The use of African American vernacular English among a group of secondary school students who par... more The use of African American vernacular English among a group of secondary school students who participated in a digital media course as part of a pre-college summer enrichment program is examined. The study has highlighted the utility and importance of creating socially and ...
Reading Online, 2001
Classroom literacy practices are necessarily grounded in historical and philosophical traditions,... more Classroom literacy practices are necessarily grounded in historical and philosophical traditions, and these traditions provide a lens for distinguishing those practices. Our goal in this article is to examine the assumptions that underlie two pedadogical approaches to ...
Voices from the Middle, Dec 1, 2008
Abstract: This article explores our work with African American youth in an after-school community... more Abstract: This article explores our work with African American youth in an after-school community literacy program. We examine how a group of these students used a set of Internet-based technology tools to evaluate whether or not a group of colleges would affirm their cultural identity and help them succeed. What we learned from the students has caused us to rethink the relationships between college exploration, access, cultural identity, and students' potential academic success.
Language Arts, Jan 10, 2005
Language Arts, Sep 1, 2004
... Microfiche to Megabytes. ERIC Microfiche Digitization. Help ERIC expand online access to docu... more ... Microfiche to Megabytes. ERIC Microfiche Digitization. Help ERIC expand online access to documents currently available only on microfiche. Learn more about our efforts. ...
Language Arts, Sep 1, 2006
... My ERIC Login Register to Use My ERIC. Facebook. Help Tutorial Help | Tutorial Help | Tutoria... more ... My ERIC Login Register to Use My ERIC. Facebook. Help Tutorial Help | Tutorial Help | Tutorial Help With This Page. ... Title: Exploring Freedom and Leaving a Legacy: Enacting New Literacies with Digital Texts in the Elementary Classroom. Authors: Damico, James; Riddle, Ruthie ...
Critical Literacy Theories and Practices, Mar 29, 2012
Since the inauguration of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) in the United States, with ... more Since the inauguration of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) in the United States, with a billion-dollar budget to induce educational reform, American schools have been under the microscope for meeting accountability standards for students. The performance pressures have intensified as the consequences for not achieving academic benchmarks have escalated.
The Reading Teacher, 2005
Children's Literature in Education, 2008
... Situating ourselves within the vast and diverse field of reader response theory and criticism... more ... Situating ourselves within the vast and diverse field of reader response theory and criticism (eg ... is extremely limited and oversimplified; while we recognize that in our oversimplification we ... assuming that contemporary African American readers will be ashamed by images of their ...
The Teachers College Record, 2009
... institutional constraints have been increasingly shaping classroom Page 4. 1166 Teachers Coll... more ... institutional constraints have been increasingly shaping classroom Page 4. 1166 Teachers College Record practices (Darling-Hammond, 2007; Valencia & Villarreal, 2003). As liter-ature curricula and instructional goals continue ...
We thank the following people who helped review manuscripts that were submitted to Pedagogies: An... more We thank the following people who helped review manuscripts that were submitted to Pedagogies: An International Journal for Volume 1. ... Ahmad Khalid Ahmad Wan Shun Eva Lam Roslyn Appleby Cynthia Lewis Elsa Auerbach Lim Cher Ping Helena Austin Karen L. Lowenstein Heesoon Bai Bernard McKenna Mark C. Baildon Erica McWilliam Charles Bazerman Brian Morgan Courtney B. Cazden Johan Muller Pam Christine Uma Natarajan Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen Helen Nixon James Damico Mark Olssen Deng Zong Yi William F. Pinar Judith ...
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2011
Ubiquity: The Journal of Literature, Literacy, and the Arts, 2016
This article explores a set of photographs that documented commemorative events led by university... more This article explores a set of photographs that documented commemorative events led by
university students in Buenos Aires, Argentina in March 2006. After defining three key features
of these photographs—commemoration, testimony, and protest—the authors consider ways the
students used written language as well as their bodies in dramatic performance to communicate a
critical perspective about historical events in Argentina. The authors then begin to sketch out
what it means to read and respond in critical solidarity to or through these images of
commemoration, testimony, and protest.
Journal of Religion & Society, 2018
This article analyzes how religion shapes Argentine memory of the period of state terror (1976-19... more This article analyzes how religion shapes Argentine memory of the period of state terror (1976-1983). The analysis focuses on the commemorative practices at the Church of Santa Cruz, a target of the former regime’s violence. The article describes the mechanisms through which the church undertakes its commemoration. These processes produce a “martyrological memory” that links the secular political past to core Christian narratives about “the giving of blood” for the sake of justice and “the kingdom of God.” A vision of a reconciled Argentina that centers the oppressed and the martyrs thus emerges.
