Featured Speakers
Arnetha Ball, U. of Michigan
Anne Haas Dyson, UC-Berkeley, "Linking Writing and Community
Development through the Children's Forum"
Judith Green, Richard Duran, & LeAnn Putney, UC-Santa Barbara,
"What Counts as Literate Actions in a Bilingual Classroom?"
Kris Gutierrez, UCLA, "Literacy Learning as Changing Social
Practice"
Vera John-Steiner, U. of New Mexico, "Literacy and the Languages of
the Mind"
Luis Moll, U. of Arizona
Gordon Wells, Ontario Institute for the Study of Education, "Making
Meaning with Text: A Genetic Approach to the Mediating Roles
of Writing in Activity"
James Wertsch, Washington U., "The Idea of a Telos in Literacy
Studies"
Roundtable Discussion Leaders
Deborah P. Berrill, Queen's University (Ontario), Sara Ann Beach &
Janet Young, U. of Oklahoma, "Penpals as mentors: Children's
appropriations of forms"
Antonia Candela & Elsie Rockwell, Departamiento de Investigaciones
Educativas, Mexico; Elvira Souza Lima, Cepaos, Brazil; Marcelo
Guimaraes Lima, University of Illinois; Eleine Shepel, Eureka
University, Russia; Catherine Emihovich, SUNY-Buffalo; Amelia
Alvarez & Pablo del Rio, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain;
Judith Green, UCSB (discussant), "Contributions of cultural-
historical theory to literacy research: An international
perspective"
Rose Casement, Brewer (ME) Middle School & Paula Moore, U. of
Maine, "Vygotskian concepts: Application to literacy
instruction for students with special needs"
Beverly E. Cox & Zhihui Fang, Purdue U., "Emergent metacognition:
A Vygotskian perspective"
Colette Daiute, CUNY, "The role of subjectivity in a sociocultural
theory of literacy"
Francine Falk-Ross, U. of Illinois-Chicago, "Guiding language
participation in classroom discourse: Strategies for children
with language difficulties"
Cyunthia Brock, Carole Sue Englert, Susan Florio-Ruane, James
Gavelek, & Taffy Raphael, Michigan State U., and Kathy
Highfield, Holly, MI Elementary School, "Reimagining teacher
learning about literacy from a Vygotskian perspective"
Roxanne Henkin, National-Louis U. "Who is invited to share? The
role of gender and status in first grade literacy development"
Olli Kuure, U. of Oulu (Finland), "Literacy in a second language
among developmentally different types of bilinguals"
Genevieve Manset, SUNY-Geneseo, & Michael Gerber, UC-Santa Barbara,
"Vygotskian perspectives on early writing development:
Implications for students with learning disabilities"
H. James McLaughlin & JoBeth Allen, U. of Georgia, "Action research
collaborations as zones of proximal development"
Suzanne M. Miller, SUNY-Buffalo, "Open-forum text discussion as a
zone of proximal development: Shaping which habits of mind?"
Christine C. Pappas, Liliana Barro Zecker, & Sonia White Soltero,
U. of Illinois-Chicago, "Relating Latino kindergarten
students' funds of knowledge to the school literacy
curriculum: Struggles in scaffolding"
David R. Russell, Iowa State U., "Rethinking genre: An activity
theory analysis"
Vicki Zack, St. George's School (Montreal), "Appropriating
mathematical discourse: Fifth graders make connections between
invention and convention"
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Northwestern U.
School of Education and Social Policy
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Evanston, IL 60201
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phone: (w) 708-467-1807
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U. of Oklahoma
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