Department of Curriculum and Instruction faculty and graduate students visited Dallas, TX to attend and participate in the Literacy Research Association’s (LRA) 2013 Annual Conference. The theme of the 2013 Conference, “Transformative Literacy: Theory Research, and Reform” considered how researchers are examining and critiquing the ways in which culture, knowledge, language, and power intersect literacy access, equity, and social justice in an age of reform.

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C&I at LRA Annual Conference

Last week, the Department of Curriculum and Instruction faculty and graduate students visited Dallas, TX to attend and participate in the Literacy Research Association’s (LRA) 2013 Annual Conference. The theme of the 2013 Conference, “Transformative Literacy: Theory Research, and Reform” considered how researchers are examining and critiquing the ways in which culture, knowledge, language, and power intersect literacy access, equity, and social justice in an age of reform.
Richard Beach, C&I professor emeritus, serves as the current president of the LRA, and Professor Cynthia Lewis is on the LRA Board of Directors. Associate Professor Mark Vagle and Professor Lori Helman are Area Chairs for the research conference paper selection process.
C&I faculty and graduate students gave a combined 23 presentations and served as proposal reviewers and discussants for many other presentations and round table sessions.
Presentations covered a range of topics including:

  • Are Two Heads Better Than One? A Case Study of First Grade Team’s Collaborative Planning for English Learners in Literacy Instruction
  • Preparing Preservice Teachers in the Use of Technology to Support the Teaching of Literacy
  • Transformation in the Literacy Transaction: Relationships between “Trauma Texts and Traumatic Histories”
  • Animating Critical Literacy with the Body: Creating Countertexts through Scene-Making and Dramatic Play
  • Reading the World through Story: An Argument for the Inclusion of Culturally Diverse Literature in Critical Literacy Curricula

For a full list of presentations, please see the Literacy Program page on the C&I website.