[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: Reading Association Creates Literacy Research Panel

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Dear Brian, you are so right! But this problem exist at IRA for nearly 40
years, yet. In the 70s IRA had established a committee on international
understanding - and when eventually someone noticed that only American
person were members, I had the honor to represent all other nations.

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Kind regards
Renate

Prof. Dr. Renate Valtin
Winkler Str. 22
D 14193 Berlin
Germany


>  Dear RHF Members,
> According to Education Week the following IRA members have been appointed
> to a ' Literacy Research Panel' which has the role of 'respond(ing) to
> critical issues in literacy by translating research into practical
> recommendations':
> •Peter Afflerbach, University of Maryland
> • Nell Duke, Michigan State University
> • Virginia Goatley, University of Albany (and IRA Research Director)
> • John Guthrie, University of Maryland
> • Kris Gutierrez, University of Colorado, Boulder
> • Kenji Hakuta, Stanford University
> • Peter Johnston, University of Albany
> • Gloria Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin-Madison
> • Nonie Leseaux, Harvard University
> • Elizabeth Moje, University of Michigan
> • Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar, University of Michigan
> • P. David Pearson, University of California, Berkeley
> • Victoria Risko, Vanderbilt University (and IRA President)
> • Timothy Shanahan, University of Illinois at Chicago
> • Catherine Snow, Harvard University
> • Karen Wixson, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
>
> While each member may may be highly qualified the majority are US
> citizens. All are situated in the USA. I was under the impression that the
> ' I' in IRA  stood for 'INTERNATIONAL' . Why are there no INTERNATIONAL
> scholars on this panel? Especially from countries whose students perform
> well on international  comparisons? Are there no Finnish, Singaporean, New
> Zealand, Australian, Canadian, UK, or European scholars with  sufficient
> credentials to at least be a token INTERNATIONAL repesentative on this
> panel?
>
> The implication that only USA scholars have sufficient epxertise to be
> members of  such a panel is professionally insulting to non-USA based
> scholars who are also members of IRA. Is it simply an unfortunate
> oversight? Or does it reflect unbridled ethnocentrisim? Is it time to
> remove the ' INTER-' from IRA and call the organisation the NRA?
> I'm interested in other RHF members' opinions on this matter.
> Sincerely,
> Brian Cambourne
> Assoc. Prof. ( Dr) Brian Cambourne
> Principal Fellow
>  Faculty of Education
> University of Wollongong
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