The Alan C. Purves Award is presented annually to the author(s) of the Research in the Teaching of English article from the previous year's volume judged as likely to have the greatest impact on educational practice.
Past Recipients of the NCTE Alan C. Purves Award
2009
Rebecca Black
Online Fan Fiction, Global Identities, and Imagination (May 2009)
2008
Beth Maloch
Beyond Exposure: The Uses of Information Texts in a Second Grade Classroom (February 2008)
2007
Carol Booth Olson and Robert Land
A Cognitive Strategies Approach to Reading and Writing Instruction for English Language Learners in Secondary School (February 2007)
2006
Sarah Warshauer Freedman, Verda Delp, and Suzanne Mills Crawford
Teaching English in Untracked Classrooms (August 2005)
2005
Mollie V. Blackburn
Disrupting Dichotomies for Social Change: A Review of, Critique of, and Complement to Current Educational Literacy Scholarship on Gender (May 2005)
2004
Ailing Kong and P. David Pearson
The Road to Participation: The Construction of a Literacy Practice in a Learning Community of Linguistically Diverse Learners (August 2003)
2003
Pauline Harris, Jillian Trezise, and W. N. Winser
"Is the Story on My Face?”: Intertextual Conflicts during Teacher-Class Interactions around Texts in Early Grade Classrooms (August 2002)
2002
Bob Fecho
"Why Are You Doing This?": Acknowledging and Transcending Threat in a Critical Inquiry Classroom (August 2001)
2001
Julie E. Wollman-Bonilla
Teaching Science Writing to First Graders: Genre Learning and Recontextualization (August 2000)
2000
Diane Stephens, Gail Boldt, Candace Clark, Janet S. Gaffney, Judith Shelton, Jennifer Story, and Janelle Weinzierl
Learning (about Learning) from Four Teachers (May 2000)
1999
Anne Haas Dyson
Coach Bombay's Kids Learn to Write: Children's Appropriation of Media Material for School Literacy (May 1999)
1998
Todd DeStigter
The Tesoros Literacy Project: An Experiment in Democratic Communities (February 1998)