Just to let you know that I had my appendix removed on Monday and, fingers crossed, things seem to be going ok. However, I feel weak as a kitten and and won’t be blogging again for another week or 10 days (or doing things like checking email). Thanks for those who sent good wishes. (Source: [...]

Group think: The turn to online research is narrowing the range of modern scholarship, a new study suggestsBut perhaps the greatest boon is the sheer quantity of readily accessible knowledge. Millions of journal articles are available online, enabling scholars to find material they never would have encountered at their university libraries. From classic psychology studies [...]

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In an age of restrictive standards and accountability measures, teachers often find themselves in a position where they have to struggle to keep play with language and literature as a focus of their early literacy instruction, as `scientifically based’ reading programs, phonics, or scripted instruction take center stage. In order to counter this trend, this [...]

This article reports on a qualitative case study involving pedagogical innovations grounded in culturally and linguistically inclusive approaches to curriculum. In this project, kindergarten children were supported in collaboratively authoring Dual Language Identity Texts. Our findings suggest that as family and teacher conceptions of literacy were extended beyond traditional monolingual print-based literacy, home literacies associated [...]

Current policy, media and curriculum initiatives across western nations are drawing literacy and literacy pedagogy toward enticingly simplistic understandings of literacy as commodity. Increasingly they focus on `fixing’ perceived literacy problems by assuming the primacy of early years literacy and `top-up’ intervention programs. In the wash-up of these narrow policies failing in their primary mission, [...]