Judith Diamondstone <diamonju@rci.rutgers.edu>

Judith Diamondstone (diamonju@rci.rutgers.edu)
Mon, 16 Oct 95 15:19:15 EDT

self description of Judy Diamondstone
I am Asst. Prof. of Literacy/English Education at Rutgers University,
Graduate School of Education. I'm interested in the history and use of
written text genres and in theories of teaching writing at the
middle grade level and above. I'm also interested in talk in the
heterogeneous classroom; I work with my students to recognize and
reflect on the tensions between the ideal of collaboration
and the realities of discourse.
I completed my doctorate last year under Courtney Cazden;
I have been influenced by much of the now classic as
well as the more recent scholarship on literacy &
learning - specifically, I'm interested in how a social body through
which cognition is distributed shapes itself/gets shaped.