[Reading-hall-of-fame] Fwd: A renewed appreciation for teachers

[Judith Green]

Greetings,

You may not have seen this report on the Heckinger report the REading Wars.  It is interesting and informative and does not take one side in this process.  It involves work of Tim Shanahan and Linda Darling Hammond and suggest limitations of all or not approaches.  I would like comments back.  We might want to send this to PBS or add to it or engage with the author.  It is a measured review and report.  I have not read the report that they suggest. 

 In the meantime, I can share two articles, if anyone is interested, that returned to archives to trace Charlie, a first grader to (re)construct a view of him as a reader in the face of an assessment of him as a non-reader, who was pulled out of his program for special help.  It is by Pauline Harris from Australia but was a study undertaken for her dissertation at Berkeley in 1989.  We have been engaging in articles that trace learners through archived records in recent publications that will be available in the next week from Brazilian journal, TLA (Harris), and in a Handbook on Research on the study of culture edited by Na’ilah Nasir, Roy Pea, Carol Lee, and Maxine de Royston (Harris included in this).  We also have a piece in the RRE 2020 that focuses on similar approaches to (re)examining archived research records.  I would be happy to share the pre-publication versions of these pieces with anyone interested and to engage in a discussion of the value of this approach in light of the depth of work that you may have as well as the theories that have developed since earlier publications.

I will share the journal TLA special issue on Literacies in Social Spaces and languages for AILA, for a research network that colleagues in Brazil and I have been building (Paula Szundy, UFRG, and Maria Lucia Castanheira, UFMG).  This is an international initiative on literacies for Applied Linguistics.  Just a thought if you are interested.  Please let me know.  The issue is international and published for the first time in English and Spanish from an A level journal at the Federal University of Minas Gerais.  Authors focus on research processes they undertook in the UK/Mexico, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, US, Taiwan, among others and focus on researching literacy (writ large) across different national contexts and/or social and language contexts.

Please stay safe and be well,

Judith

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