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Leveraging Reading-Writing Connections through Three Transformative Reading Lenses
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De Piero, Zack K. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2019
In surveys and semi-structured interviews, Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) discussed the role of reading in their first-year composition (FYC) courses infused with 'writing about writing' and 'teaching for transfer' perspectives. Three transformative reading lenses played a pivotal role in instructors' pedagogies -- deconstructing genres,…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Teaching Assistants, Transformative Learning
MAT Teacher Candidates' Perceptions of Balanced Literacy and Student Learning: Influences of Transformative Learning Experiences
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Thompson, Amy Earls – ProQuest LLC, 2018
An alarming number of people cannot read or are only functionally literate, particularly in Arkansas. Reading is an essential skill for health, well-being, and and economic advancement of individuals and families. Literacy is a lifelong gateway to knowledge, and with knowledge comes power. To increase functional literacy, classroom reading…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Masters Programs
Literacy Is Transformative. The Thirty-Fifth Yearbook A Doubled Peer Reviewed Publication of the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers
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Szabo, Susan, Ed.; Martin, Linda, Ed.; Haas, Leslie, Ed.; Garza-Garcia, Lizabeth, Ed. – Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers, 2013
For their 56th annual meeting, the Association of Educators and Researchers (ALER) met in Grand Rapids, Michigan at the Amway Grand Hotel. This year's conference theme was Literacy Is Transformative, which was also used as the title for this year's Yearbook, Volume 35. Included are double-peer reviewed papers, the presidential address,…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Instruction, Transformative Learning, Mentors
Transactional Theory and the Study of Multicultural Literature
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Cai, Mingshui – Language Arts, 2008
Recently, transactional reader response theory has been criticized for providing an inadequate theoretical guide for the study of multicultural literature. Some scholars argue that Rosenblatt assumes the reader and her response to literature are ideologically innocent and the continuum of aesthetic and efferent stance does not encompass critical…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Reader Response, Literature, Critical Theory