Research in the Teaching of English, Vol. 40, No. 3, February 2006

Table of Contents

• EDITORS' INTRODUCTION: Those Who Are Willing and Generous

  Melanie Sperling and Anne DiPardo

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• Announcing the Alan C. Purves Award Winner (Volume 39)

  Deborah Allen, Lee Heffernan (Chair), Nadjwa Norton, Kathleen West, and Judith Williams (2005 Selection Committee)

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  Abstract: Members of the Alan C. Purves Award Committee introduce the winner of the award for Volume 39 of Research in the Teaching of English, Mollie Blackburn. Her winning article is entitled “Disrupting Dichotomies for Social Change: A Review of, Critique of, and Complement to Current Educational Literacy Scholarship on Gender”; it was published in May 2005.

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• Risky, Generous, Gender Work

  Mollie V. Blackburn

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  Abstract: At the 2005 NCTE Annual Convention in Pittsburgh, Mollie Blackburn received the Alan C. Purves Award, given each RTE volume year for an article that holds particular promise to enhance classroom practice. Professor Blackburn’s award-winning article, "Disrupting Dichotomies for Social Change: A Review of, Critique of, and Complement to Current Scholarship on Gender and Literacy," appeared in the May 2005 issue of RTE. In the essay that follows, she reflects on the further implications of this work for teachers and schools.

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• Resistance, Loss, and Love in Learning to Read: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry

  Gail Boldt

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  Abstract: This conceptual essay employs psychoanalytic theory in exploring the difficulties the author’s son experienced in learning to read. Emphasizing the profoundly affective and subjective dimensions of one child’s movement toward and against literacy, the author considers the potential of psychoanalytic perspectives in helping teachers and researchers better understand and respond to children’s resistance to reading.

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• The Role of Social and Cultural Resources in Literacy and Schooling: Three Contrasting Cases

  Colleen M. Fairbanks and Mary Ariail

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  Abstract: This article presents case studies of three adolescent girls’ literacy-related school experiences over a three-year period, focusing on the girls’ own accounts of their instructional and institutional interactions.

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• 2005 NCTE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: You are Here: The Moment in Literacy Education

  Randy Bomer

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  Abstract: The following is the text of Randy Bomer’s presidential address, delivered at the NCTE Annual Convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in November 2005.

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• AT LAST: "What's Discourse Got to Do with It?" A Meditation on Critical Discourse Analysis in Literacy Research

  Cynthia Lewis

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• GUEST REVIEWERS

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