"Timothy J. Lensmire" <tjlensmi@artsci.wustl.edu>

Timothy J. Lensmire (tjlensmi@artsci.wustl.edu)
Tue, 12 Sep 1995 11:38:45 -0500 (CDT)

I am an assistant professor of education at Washington University
in St. Louis. My main interests focus on social, cultural, and political
aspects of literacy, with a special interest in the teaching and learning
of writing in schools. The writings of Mikhail Bakhtin and John Dewey
continue to be important influences on my work. I am currently at work
on a book on school writing and participatory democracy--in it, I look to
the work of Bakhtin and Dewey (as well as feminist and critical
theorists) for help in affirming, criticizing, and re-imagining current
progressive literacy education (whole language, process and writing workshop
approaches) in the direction of education for democracy.