Research in the Teaching of English, Vol. 43, No. 1, August 2008

Table of Contents

• Editors’ Introduction

  Mark Dressman, Sarah McCarthey, and Paul Prior

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  Abstract: We look forward to building on and expanding the role of RTE in shaping and disseminating research on writing, reading, literacy, literary response, and literature education.

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• Analyzing Children’s Social Positioning and Struggles for Recognition in a Classroom Literacy Event

  Jessica C. Zacher

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  Abstract: In this article I use a double theoretical lens of Bourdieuian (1985, 1991) and Bakhtinian (1981, 1986) perspectives on social space and the dialogism of everyday literacy events to analyze and discuss a classroom literacy event. In this event, which takes place in a diversely populated classroom with a social justice language arts curriculum, four boys read aloud intertextual stories while managing the shifting power dynamics of their social hierarchies.

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• Teaching Trickster Tales: A Comparison of Instructional Approaches

  Marya Jarvey, Anne McKeough, and Michael C. Pyryt

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  Abstract: Trickster tales, with their teachings on how to behave in the world, are a powerful means for transmitting social knowledge and cultural mores to children. In this study we compared two approaches to teaching fourth-grade students to write trickster tales. Although both instructional methods incorporated aspects of the writing process approach, only the developmentally based method took into account students’ expected developmental growth patterns in narrative composition.

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• Learning from Teachers’ Conceptions of Technology Integration: What Do Blogs, Instant Messages, and 3D Chat Rooms Have to Do with It?

  Erica C. Boling

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  Abstract: This study was designed to investigate 19 preservice and practicing teachers’ conceptions of the role of new technologies in literacy education. The study documented how these conceptions, as well as my own, evolved over time and impacted the content and curriculum of a university course.

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• Announcements

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