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

Fri Aug 15 17:13:24 BST 2014

As a US-based researcher, I know that I can learn much from European-based
conferences. This became clear to me when I was serving as a consultant on
a 13-European nation adolescent literacy grant. What I picked up then (and
I'm guessing it is even more the case today) is that European academics
design their studies to take into account the shifting demographics
associated with major global shifts.

Although I cannot be in either Missouri or Austria for the conferences
under discussion, I do support from the sidelines a session that would
involve our "delegates" listening and reporting back to us through the RHoF
website or maybe through a session at LRA, AERA, or IRA.

I like the way we RHoFers are communicating outside the annual breakfast.
Transforms RHoF into an organization that seems livelier and more
collaborative.

Onward,
Donna

On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Shirley Brice Heath <sbheath at stanford.edu>
wrote:

> I don't usually weigh in on these matters, but let me endorse Colin's
> idea.  I spend a lot of time in European situations, and they have issues
> and solutions that the USA folks would benefit from, enjoy, relish thinking
> about, and find fun to explore.  In particular, the role of their libraries
> and museums in helping them absorb refugees from African civil wars,
> language orientation and learning to TALK and read plays and performances
> by young and old, and on and on.
>
> If we did this listening forum, wouldn't that be refreshing?
>
> Best to all,
>
> Shirley
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 4:17 PM, David Reinking <REINKIN at clemson.edu>
> wrote:
>
>>  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>
>>
>> Date: Thursday, August 14, 2014 1:26 PM
>> To: "Langer, Judith A" <jlanger at albany.edu>, Ken Goodman <
>> kgoodman at u.arizona.edu>, "reading-hall-of-fame at nottingham.ac.uk" <
>> reading-hall-of-fame at nottingham.ac.uk>, Jane Hansen <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>
>> Date: Thursday, 14 August 2014 17:26
>> To: Ken Goodman <kgoodman at u.arizona.edu>, "
>> reading-hall-of-fame at nottingham.ac.uk" <
>> reading-hall-of-fame at nottingham.ac.uk>, Jane Hansen <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
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:*reading-hall-of-fame-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [
>> mailto:reading-hall-of-fame-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> <reading-hall-of-fame-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] *On Behalf Of *Ken
>> Goodman
>>
>> *Sent:* Thursday, August 14, 2014 10:00 AM
>> *To:* reading-hall-of-fame at nottingham.ac.uk; Jane Hansen
>>
>> *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.
>>
>> Ken Goodman
>>
>> Ken Goodman
>> 7814 South Galileo Lane
>> Tucson, Az 85747
>> 520-745-6895
>>
>>  
>>
>> Effective Iinstruction is a  Response to Learning
>>
>> As Don Graves said  "Orthodoxies make us tell old stories about children
>> at the expense of the new stories that children are telling us."
>>
>> Use Google to see :
>> Ken Goodman's Morning post
>>
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