Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 0 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 0 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 0 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 4 |
Descriptor
Source
Canadian Journal of Native… | 2 |
College English | 1 |
English Education | 1 |
Journal of Adolescent & Adult… | 1 |
Reading & Writing Quarterly | 1 |
Author
Dayton-Wood, Amy | 1 |
Gaikezehongai, Sally | 1 |
Gamlin, Peter | 1 |
Marsh, Josephine Peyton | 1 |
Mayher, John S. | 1 |
Reilly, Mary Ann | 1 |
Publication Type
Journal Articles | 6 |
Opinion Papers | 6 |
Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
Speeches/Meeting Papers | 1 |
Education Level
Elementary Secondary Education | 1 |
Higher Education | 1 |
Audience
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Reilly, Mary Ann – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2014
Reilly leans on the metaphor of rhizomes to remind readers that the work of a coach is not linear or hierarchical, but fluid and dynamic. Reilly frames literacy coaches as rhizomatic agents in schools and urges coaches to appreciate resistance and interruptions as critical and necessary for transformative teaching and learning.
Descriptors: Literacy, Coaching (Performance), Figurative Language, Resistance (Psychology)
Dayton-Wood, Amy – College English, 2012
The literary work of Anzia Yezierska is relevant to the fields of composition, rhetoric, and literacy. Partly in dialogue with the philosophy of John Dewey, it reveals the tensions and conflicts inherent in progressive education, emphasizing how these were viewed through the lens of the immigrant student. Yezierska shows that pedagogical…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Progressive Education, Rhetoric, Literacy
Marsh, Josephine Peyton – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2013
This commentary is based on two of the lessons the author learned as the professor in residence at ASU Preparatory Academy-Phoenix (ASU Prep), a Title I school operated in partnership with the Phoenix Elementary School District. Her role as a university professor on special assignment as a literacy coach, staff developer, and co-researcher. The…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Communities of Practice, Instructional Improvement, Literacy
Mayher, John S. – English Education, 2012
This article presents the author's keynote address from the 2011 CEE Summer Conference at Fordham University in which he challenges educators to rethink what they do and how they do it. He talks about English teacher education as literacy teacher education. He tries to sketch a picture of the status quo and its limits, and an alternative picture…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, English Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, English Teachers

Gaikezehongai, Sally – Canadian Journal of Native Education, 2003
Prophecies say that Aboriginal peoples of the Americas will educate and illuminate the world by sharing their Sacred Fire, the spiritual strength that has enabled their survival. Such a vision sustains Aboriginal literacy practitioners, who are developing a unique holistic foundation for the healing and nurturing of minds, bodies, and spirits.…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, Canada Natives, Educational Change

Gamlin, Peter – Canadian Journal of Native Education, 2003
Literacy is discussed in the broadest sense. From an Aboriginal perspective, literacy is about sustaining a world view and culture, resymbolizing and reinterpreting past experience while honoring traditional values, living these values, and visioning a future in which an Aboriginal way of being will continue to thrive. Meaningful Aboriginal…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Biculturalism, Canada Natives, Creativity