[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: Austin ILA

Mon Apr 16 07:25:33 BST 2018

This is a worthwhile current piece by Keita Takayama on senior Japanese curriculum experts' response to PISA reading items - another case of the elision of language, curriculum and culture, but in this instance coming from a country that is amongst the celebrated PISA literacy  'success' stories.  What she describes is the erosion of longstanding and traditional approaches to 'close reading' from 'what counts'.  How many other culturally variable reading and writing practices - and literate traditions - are being lost in this push for transnational standardization?

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03626784.2018.1435975

Allan Luke

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Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: Austin ILA

My analysis of the PIRLS sample questions (published if anyone wants) is that the questions take decoding for granted. They require comprehension, application to children’s experience, some inference etc.  But the solution  in policy and practice seems to be more decoding work instead of rich interaction with rich reading material.

To say nothing of this home language test being taken by some children in a different language in the very years that they are switching to literacy in English !!!

Hilary Janks
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On 15 Apr 2018, at 16:25, carole bloch <csbloch at gmail.com<mailto:csbloch at gmail.com>> wrote:

Ah mannnnn, Jim! Sounds so horribly familiar to me. I don't understand how they have become the experts either - reading this article attached for those of you who feel like looking, one just can't believe it.

I am going to do everything I can now to explode this - from what I prefer to call a transformation and some call an Africanisation perspective, what Abadzi says is totally unconscionable and racist even:The implication of what she says is that the brains of poor (African language speaking?) children are different than those of anyone else and unable to deal with rich complexity from the start - it's further entrenching systemic maiming of imaginative learning.

I invite any of you to send ideas of ways to counter this - truly Jim is right that it is being shoved down the throats of millions.

I'm trying to raise funds now for research here on what appropriate early literacy can be like for all young children  and not only children of the elite... thats part of our challenge -  the few qualitative studies here are completely brushed aside by these people who insist on RCT type 'evidence'.

Carole

On 15 April 2018 at 14:55, Hoffman, James V <jhoffman at austin.utexas.edu<mailto:jhoffman at austin.utexas.edu>> wrote:
I just attended the CIES (Comparative & International Education Society) conference in Mexico. The theme was something like ReMapping Global Education; South to North dialogue.  There were two layers to the conference.  The North was on top and visible.  USAiD, World Bank etc  continue to make the push for EGRA led by the Crouch and Abadzi (How on earth do such people become the leading literacy experts in the world???) . The usual suspects of RTI (and the other beltway bandits) keep playing along.   Then there was the “South” on the bottom and nearly invisible except by color.  Here the conversations were energetic, thoughtful, and important.  As for the dialogue — none. The north continues to tell the South what they need. The scholarship around literacy is absent from any of the discussions (oh, i did hear in one presentation that “Reading is not Rocket Science’ — that was the leading sentence to a presentation about work in Africa with a15 million dollar project affecting over 600 schools.  and then there was the presentation around the Rumelhart interactive pedagogy method — I’m sure we all know that one.)

it was the most depressing conference experience I have ever had and I only had to listen to it.  Millions are getting this shoved down their throats.   jim

On Apr 15, 2018, at 3:31 AM, carole bloch <csbloch at gmail.com<mailto:csbloch at gmail.com>> wrote:

I so wish I could be there too! Would be great to read/see the debates.

Sunday greetings from the beautiful but very dry and troubled outer reaches... where a few of us are now struggling to contextualise and counter  the Helen Abadzi (using neuroscience from people like Dehaene and Shaywitz) 'truths' on how 'the poor'  African language speaking  children can only learn to read by decoding automaticity... this has been taken by some influential researchers and policy makers as the next route out of the comprehension disaster evidence (PIRLS 2016).

Brian, I wonder if you know that one of the articles which helped me to frame the reading for enjoyment campaign I started in 2012 was your 1996 one - I still circulate it  to many young activists in SA trying to ensure a more meaningful future trajectory for children.

Carole
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On 14 April 2018 at 23:27, Brian Cambourne <bcambrn at uow.edu.au<mailto:bcambrn at uow.edu.au>> wrote:
Looks like a great session. Wish I could be there.
 Brian Cambourne
On 15 Apr 2018, at 2:05 AM, Hoffman, James V <jhoffman at austin.utexas.edu<mailto:jhoffman at austin.utexas.edu>> wrote:

Greetings,

I am pasting the program description for the Reading Hall of Fame seminar/presentation at ILA in Austin and attaching a more complete description To my knowledge, there is no formal meeting for the RHOF at the conference. However, anyone wanting to go out after the session to just catch up we can plan for that..  We look forward to you joining us in this session and Welcome to Austin!

jim

Reading Hall of Fame: A Critical Examination of Four Policy Briefs From the ILA Literacy Research Panel
Sun, Jul 22, 2018: 1:00 PM  - 2:00 PM
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Cosponsored Session
Austin Convention Center
Room: 18A - Theater
The International Literacy Association formed the "Literacy Research Panel" in 2012 to respond to critical literacy issues facing policy makers. The LRP has been active in responding quickly to such challenges as the National Council of Teacher Quality (NCTQ) report on teacher preparation. This Reading Hall of Fame's session will focus on a subset of these Policy Briefs and the work of the Panel. This examination of the policy briefs is intended to deepen our understanding of these areas. The RHOF is focusing on just four of the briefs. Four members of the RHOF will take the lead in formulating a response. Diane Lapp, the current chair for the Literacy Research Panel, will chair the session and offer background on the work on the development of these Briefs. Lesley Morrow, a past president of ILA and a member of the Reading Hall of Fame will serve as discussant.

Presenter

Dr. James Hoffman, The University of Texas at Austin

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Dr. Diane Lapp, San Diego State University
James Cunningham, Uniiversity of North Carolina
MaryEllen Vogt, California State University
Donna Alvermann, University of Georgia
Lesley Mandel Morrow, Rutgers the State University of NJ

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General (age 4-18)

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Literacy Leadership
Research

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