Science of reading is a term that has been used variously, but its use within research, policy,
and the press has tended to share one important commonality: an intensive focus on …

Critical discourse analysis (CDA) stems from a critical theory of language which sees the
use of language as a form of social practice. All social practices are tied to specific historical …

In this article, Kris Gutierrez, Betsy Rymes, and Joanne Larson demonstrate how power is
constructed between the teacher and students. The authors identify the teacher's monologic …

If we take seriously lessons from the sociology of science, it would be unwise to interpret
paradigm shifts in educational research in terms of the succession of disciplinary truths, the …

Changing Literacies explores everyday social practices and how they influence who people
are, what they become, the quality of their lives, the opportunities and possibilities open to …

Critiquing the positioning of children from non-dominant groups as linguistically deficient,
this book aims to bridge the gap between theorizing of language in critical sociolinguistics …

This article examines how a teacher drew on her urban students' outside-school literacies to
inform teaching and learning in a reading/language arts classroom. The following findings …

This chapter argues that not only are the" laws of language generation sociological laws",
but as well that models of language and literacy education are in the first instance …

Addressing the current and growing interest in the personal, the self, and the
autobiographical not only in the teaching of writing, but also across many disciplinary and …

© 2000 International Reading Association (pp. 400-410) the editorial that commenced their
tenure as Editors of the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Allan Luke and John Elkins …