[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: RHoF Membership

Sun Sep 18 16:34:49 BST 2016

Hi all,

I agree with Brian and Jan and find this an extraordinary conversation at this time.  International is not a term that applies solely to the US context.  Anyone from another country is international and many of us have been considered international scholars by other countries with who we have worked or visited.  What counts as international appears to be who is inside a country and who is outside.  This discussion suggests that RHofF is seeking to become more global in its membership.  Jan Turnbull’s suggestion that the “international” (non-US) members recommend people is a position that I would support along with the continued recommendation of US-based scholars who have international connections, not just in the English-speaking world but in the linguistically diverse world.  I am still learning who might be considered as a recent inductee.  I appreciate the calls but would love to know more about how the group envisions “international members” and if we are seeking to be an international community.  

I am excited about RHofF as seeking to break down the dichotomy between national and international to create a global vision of the contributions of scholars inside and outside of our local national contexts.  Jan Turnbull’s suggestions are ones that I think will forward the goal of building recognitions of, and spaces for, exploring the contributions of a broad range of scholars.  Many of us in the US have tried to attend “international” meetings but as Jan points out, the cost and commitments to our local sites often compete economically.  I wonder if the members of this forward thinking group might be interested in creating a virtual space through the digital highways that currently exist and are often free or relatively inexpensive for all.  

For example, when I was in Australia on a fellowship with Claire Wyatt-Smith and Greer Johnson at Griffith, I was able to link the Australia researchers with my research group in Santa Barbara for $8.00 on a digital highway that goes around the world that tied to what is called Internet2, an education oriented network created to link national networks into a world-wide network.  Traveling this digital highway (my group’s metaphor for creating non-distance experiences as my colleague Stephen Lu of USC, a design engineer, calls his approach to higher education (iPodia) that links multiple countries in common courses — http://www.ipodia.usc.edu/ <http://www.ipodia.usc.edu/>, http://ipodia.usc.edu/partnership/partners/ <http://ipodia.usc.edu/partnership/partners/>) is possible given the vision of new ways of communicating and working interactively.  

Perhaps one way of meeting Jan’s point is to create the possibility of such a potential, not for students alone but for those who want to not just recognize the accomplishments but build on those in new ways.  I would love to learn from and with those of my fellow members’ past and present work to see if we can create new and/or convergent (as well as divergent) understandings of the historical as well as developing context of literacy in ways that go beyond the one time meetings a year.  I don’t know if others would be interested but we could foreground the contributions of folks each month in a digital world space so that we can reach out across borders to create a sustaining process.  This would take time but not cost a lot.  It would let the intellectual histories become part of the present as well as all of us as “international scholars”.  

I have just become an emeritus professor and have moved to Boston for the year (and possibly longer) and would be happy to explore with others such a possibility.  My research community and I have been traveling these highways.  I also see this form of community as critical so that we Elie Weisel has said, history repeats itself, lest we forget.  Perhaps an ongoing process with different scholars sharing each month in a virtual highway meeting would enable the cross-pollination that is a goal of this historically-oriented group.  We could create for free a YouTube channel to make these talks available for others and for use in a class.  

Just some ideas that will came to mind when I read this important discussion.

Judith

> On Sep 18, 2016, at 1:50 AM, Jan Turbill <jturbill at uow.edu.au> wrote:
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> Hi all
> I am an ‘international’ and also happy for the term not to be used. However as Yetta points out RHF members need to be cognisant of others outside North America who have made ‘an outstanding contribution’. I believe also that those of us outside the US must be prepared to propose those we know who have made an outstanding contribution within our own countries and internationally.
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> A major issue I believe for international RHF members is the cost (and time) to attend the annual RHF breakfast. ILA’s decision to move its conference to July makes it difficult for international travellers. For instance, it is considered the peak period to travel to the northern hemisphere from Australia so far ore expensive to travel to US, and it clashes with many of our own national conferences (as it does in Australia). 
> 
> I would really love to able to attend but my allegiance must first be with the ALEA conference, which for anyone interested is in Tasmania (https://www.englishliteracyconference.com.au <https://www.englishliteracyconference.com.au/>), 6-9th July. Now I know that ILA  begins on the 15th, but I am getting too old to end one conference then jump on a plane and male the long haul to Florida so soon after!! 
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> Having said all this, I do appreciate that the discussion has been raised by David on the listserv as I feel I can make more of a contribution via this medium.
> 
> We really must make more use of the listserv so as to get discussions on various topics that allows all of us to interact.
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Jan
> 
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>> On 17 Sep 2016, at 1:37 AM, Yetta Goodman <ygoodman at U.ARIZONA.EDU <mailto:ygoodman at u.arizona.edu>> wrote:
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>> The purpose of international relates to decisions about support for travel and to make sure all members become consciously aware that there are outstanding reading/literacy researchers outside of the U.S. and North America who deserve to be recognized.  Until we began to nominate and elect international members separately from U.S. members, there were very few in RHF.  Now our membership is being rewarded with members from a number of countries outside the U.S.  Such discussions are held yearly and decisions made at our breakfast meeting.  I recommend that this item be placed on the agenda at the 2017 breakfast meeting.    Yetta Goodman 
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>> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 6:55 AM, Henrietta Dombey <H.Dombey at brighton.ac.uk <mailto:H.Dombey at brighton.ac.uk>> wrote:
>> Makes sense to me.
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>> Best to all,
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>> Henrietta
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>> In preparing to do my duty for the newsletter, I looked over last year’s.
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>> I’d like to suggest that we drop the designation “International” in describing members. It seems to come across that we have two categories of membership: members and international members (connoting a second class of membership to the latter). Seems to me we all international members.
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>> (I understand the utility of thinking about the need to maintain a true international membership for RHoF, but perhaps we could make this a more ‘internal’ thing as we think about nominations and elections, rather than having the public designation that we have now.)
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>> I am not sure what the procedure for discussing/acting on this issue might be, but I hope the RHoF leadership can have it raised.
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