Research in the Teaching of English, Vol. 43, No. 2, November 2008

Table of Contents

• Editors’ Introduction: Tales of Transformation

  Mark Dressman, Sarah McCarthey, and Paul Prior

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• Using Digital Media to Interpret Poetry: Spiderman Meets Walt Whitman

  Mary B. McVee, Nancy M. Bailey, and Lynn E. Shanahan

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  Abstract: Teachers and students often express an aversion to poetry based on their experiences with printbased poetry texts that typically dominate school curricula. Given this challenge and the potential affordances of new and multimodal technologies, we investigate how preservice and inservice teachers enrolled in a new literacies master’s course began to interpret poetry multimodally, through PowerPoint.

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• Teacher Transformation in the National Writing Project

  Anne Whitney

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  Abstract: Teachers who have participated in Summer Institutes of the National Writing Project (NWP) have often claimed “it changed my life.” What do teachers mean when they say this? What does it mean to “transform” in a professional development setting, and what might researchers and professional development providers gain from an understanding of teacher transformation as a kind of teacher learning?

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• Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English

  Richard Beach, et al.

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  Abstract: Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English Richard Beach, Martha Bigelow, Martine Braaksma, Deborah Dillon, Jessie Dockter, Lee Galda, Lori Helman, Tanja Janssen, Karen Jorgensen, Julie Kalnin, Lauren Liang, Bic Ngo, David O’Brien, Mistilina Sato, and Cassandra Scharber; Richard Beach et al. reviews important research publications in the teaching of English.

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