[Reading-hall-of-fame] Reaction to Colin's point

[David Reinking]

Excellent point Colin.

How about a session in which attending HOF members make themselves available as a group in a forum framed as an opportunity to listen to attendees from Europe about the issues and challenges they face and how their experiences might broaden our perspectives.  Those members who attend could report back to all of us what they learned.

From: Colin Harrison <Colin.Harrison at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Colin.Harrison at nottingham.ac.uk>>
Date: Thursday, August 14, 2014 1:26 PM
To: "Langer, Judith A" <jlanger at albany.edu<mailto:jlanger at albany.edu>>, Ken Goodman <kgoodman at u.arizona.edu<mailto:kgoodman at u.arizona.edu>>, "reading-hall-of-fame at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:reading-hall-of-fame at nottingham.ac.uk>" <reading-hall-of-fame at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:reading-hall-of-fame at nottingham.ac.uk>>, Jane Hansen <jh5re at virginia.edu<mailto:jh5re at virginia.edu>>
Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: SYMPOSIUM FOR EUROPEAN READING IN AUSTRIA

Hi Judy and everyone.

The European Reading Conference is excellent in many ways, but principally as a forum where folk who would never consider going to IRA get their chance to offer their perspective.  So (having presented at a number of these, and having been on the organising committee of two) I would suggest it’s important to consider some of the following questions:

  *   What might a librarian from Hungary want to learn from you?
  *   What might a teacher educator from Finland want to learn from you?
  *   What might a teacher of English to Slovene intending pre-school teachers want to learn from you?
  *   What might Australian specialist in online learning want to learn from you?
  *   What might specialists in the politics of adult adult literacy from Canada and Belgium want to learn from you?
  *   What might EFL teacher educators from Turkey, Germany and Sweden want to learn from you?

To put it another way, the (excellent) topic “Needed research in Literacy” could be brilliant- or could come over as arrogant or irrelevant if it didn’t take account of the implied question “Whose needs?”.  So it might be good to try to gain an international- or even better, a European- perspective on the question of “Whose needs?”

If you’d care to check it out, here’s a link to the parallel sessions programme from the 2013 conference:

http://www.scira.nu/images/stories/scira_conf_sessions2.pdf

Best regards

Colin



From: <Langer>, Judith Langer <jlanger at albany.edu<mailto:jlanger at albany.edu>>
Date: Thursday, 14 August 2014 17:26
To: Ken Goodman <kgoodman at u.arizona.edu<mailto:kgoodman at u.arizona.edu>>, "reading-hall-of-fame at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:reading-hall-of-fame at nottingham.ac.uk>" <reading-hall-of-fame at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:reading-hall-of-fame at nottingham.ac.uk>>, Jane Hansen <jh5re at virginia.edu<mailto:jh5re at virginia.edu>>
Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: SYMPSIUM FOR EUROPEAN READING IN aUSTRIA

I’d be happy to chair. If anyone would like to co-chair, let me know. The call for papers is on the Web under 19th European Conference on Literacy 2015. It says “he conference will create a forum for the presentation and direction of finding of current research into the range of contemporary forms (“traditional and new” ….) I’ve never been to this conference before. How literal is “presentation of current research” meant to be?  Will a discussion of needed research in be acceptable?

After this email to all, I’ll limit the discussion to those who would like to participate.

Judith A. Langer, Distinguished Research Professor
Director, Center on English Learning & Achievement
University at Albany
Albany, NY 12222
JLanger at albany.edu<mailto:JLanger at albany.edu>

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Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] SYMPSIUM FOR EUROPEAN READING IN aUSTRIA

Jane and those intersted in a Hall of fame symposium in Austria

I have been amused that we have lotsof volunteers to present aaaat RHOF symposium in Austria at the Eurpean Reading Conference but no one has volunteered to organize it, I have a suggestion. The topicof the symposium shoould be : Needed Research on literacy. Each person could pprepare a short presntation on the topic from his/her  prospective. I thin Jane shouls choose a chair to submit the propodal to Renata, perhaps Judith Langer would be willing to chair? I will be in St Louis at IRA which most unfortionally conincides.
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