Volume 14(1):
Reframing Pedagogical Practices and Literacy Research: Teaching to the Future
Academic Articles | Academic Book Reviews | CYAL Book Reviews | Poetry, Fiction, and Visual Arts
Editor’s Introduction
Editor’s Introduction: Reframing Pedagogical Practice and Research
Scholarly Articles
Conference Keynote Articles and Videos
Toward a Theory of the Dark Fantastic: The Role of Racial Difference in Young Adult Speculative Fiction and Media
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Video: The Dark Fantastic featuring Ebony Thomas
Video: Reframing Anti-Bullying Education featuring Little Rock Nine Civil Rights Icon Elizabeth Eckford, Eurydice Stanley, and Grace Stanley
Review of The Worst First Day: Bullied While Desegregating Central High
Written by Elizabeth Eckford with Dr. Eurydice Stanley & Grace Stanley
Artwork by Rachel Gibson & Photography by Will Counts & Kirk Jordan
Student Reviewers: Foxie G. Nuruddin & Pharaoh N. Nuruddin
Adult/Educator Reviewer: Sharon M. Nuruddin
…And a Child Shall Lead Them…
Eurydice Stanley
A Southern White Man’s Lessons on How to Grow Up Racist
Peter Smagorinsky
Research Articles
Teaching for Deep Learning in a Second-Grade Literacy Classroom
Treavor Bogard, Annamary L. Consalvo, Jo Worthy
“We Don’t Wanna Strait-Jacket You”: Community, Curriculum and Critical Literacy in Urban Debate
Susan Cridland-Hughes
What is Adapted in Youth Adaptations?: A Critical Comparative Content Analysis of Military Memoirs Repackaged as Young Adult Literature
Mark A. Sulzer, Amanda Haertling Thein, Renita R. Schmidt
Interrupting Cultural Deficiency: Illustrating Curricular Benefits of Plurilingualism in a Kenyan Classroom
David B. Wandera, Marcia Farr
A Different Kind of Sponsorship: The Influence of Graphic Narrative Composing on ELA Pre-Service Teachers’ Perceptions of Writing and Literacy Instruction
Mike P. Cook, Brandon L. Sams
Voices from the Field
Exploding the Wor(l)d: Using Challenging Texts to Reveal the Metacognitive Conversation with Pre-service Teachers
Julianna Lopez Kershen
Ready Learner One: Creating An Oasis For Virtual/Online Education
Csaba Osvath
#Twitter: A Pedagogical Tool in the High School Classroom for Your Consideration
Stephanie Loomis
But She Didn’t Scream: A Framework for Teaching About Sexual Assault In Young Adult Literature
Kathleen C. Colantonio-Yurko, Henry “Cody” Miller, Jennifer Cheveallier
All podcasts available on iTunes
Academic Book Reviews
The academic book reviews in this issue reflect the broad range of texts bearing relevance to the field of language and literacy education. One overarching theme is the need to explore what lies outside of the norm. Reviewers with diverse backgrounds take on texts focusing on theory, practice, research, and issues of societal justice and equity. Through summary and critique, reviewers bring you their unique perspectives on current literature in the field.
Mariah Copeland Parker, Academic Book Review Editor, jolle.bookrev@gmail.com
Review of Investigating Disciplinary Literacy: A Framework for Collaborative Professional Learning by Christina L. Dobbs, Jacy Ippolito, and Megin Charner-Laird
Lou Tolosa-Casadont, The University of Georgia
Review of Choice and Agency in the Writing Workshop Classroom: Developing Engaged Writers, Grades 4-6 by Fred L. Hamel
Stacia L. Long, The University of Georgia
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Review of Language, Culture, and Teaching – Critical Perspectives, 3rd Edition by Sonia Nieto
Sharon Nuruddin, The University of Georgia
Review of Newsworthy: Cultivating Critical Thinkers, Readers, and Writers in Language Arts Classrooms by Ed Madison
Kalianne Neumann, The University of Georgia
Children & Young Adult Literature (CYAL) Book Reviews
The Journal of Language and Literacy Education reviews recently published or soon-to-be published children’s and young adult literature. Our hope is to provide a space for student voices to be heard in response to the literature that is written for them. We put special emphasis on our student reviewer’s thoughts and emotions tied to their reading of these books. We also highlight educator and adult reviews of these books to show their value to educators throughout the country.
For our spotlight this month, we invited the reviewers of Refugee from the Fall 2017 issue to talk with us more about their review process and the importance of publishing.
Stacia L. Long, CYAL Book Review Editor, JoLLE.CYAL@gmail.com
Spotlight
Interview with Nadeen Al Rifaei and Ean Fulks about their experience of writing reading, writing, and publishing in JoLLE together.
Picture Book Reviews
Review of Over and Under the Pond by Kate Messner & Illustrated by Christopher Silas Neal
Student Reviewer: Bart O’Reilly
Adult/Educator Reviewer: Alexandra L. Berglund
Review of A Walk in New York by Salvatore Rubbino
Student Reviewer: Madelín Eloisa Escamilla
Adult/Educator Reviewer: Maria Cristina Lopez
Review of Why am I Here? by Constance Ørbeck-Nilssen & Illustrated by Akin Duzakin
Student Reviewer: Maya McKay
Adult/Educator Reviewer: Katie McKay
Review of This Is How We Do It by Matt Lamothe
Student Reviewers: Yashar Harris & Dylan Mizell
Adult/Educator Reviewer: Jason D. Mizell
Video Book Trailer of Pete the Cat: Snow Daze by James Dean
Adult/Educator Reviewer: Kassandra Hill
Young Adult Book Reviews
Review of Spliced by Jon McGoran
Student Reviewer: Bianca Thompson
Adult/Educator Reviewer: Jessica Beck
Review of Geis: A Matter of Life and Death by Alexis Deacon
Student Reviewer: Eric Samoson
Adult/Educator Reviewer: Megan Beth Hedgecock
Review of Roar by Cora Carmack
Student Reviewer: Via Nachman
Adult/Educator Reviewer: Meg McKeon
Review of Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison by Shaka Senghor
Student Reviewer: Gemma Williams
Adult/Educator Reviewer: Brady Nash
Review of The Wendy by Erin Michelle Sky & Steve Brown
Student Reviewer: Grace Gilmour
Adult/Educator Reviewer: Margaret Robbins
Review of Love, Hate, and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed
Student Reviewer: Arabella French
Adult/Educator Reviewer: Patty Young
Poetry, Fiction, & Visual Arts
In the Fall 2017 issue of JoLLE, we are proud to present a Poetry, Fiction, & Visual Arts section that explores the intertwined and dynamic relationship between language, teaching, and learning in diverse contexts. Our poets, authors, and artists, who are also researchers and educators, provide us both practical inspiration and poetic interpretation of many issues, such as students’ voice and self-discovery, multimodal teaching and learning, and interpersonal communication in education.
Sharon M. Nuruddin, Poetry, Fiction, & Visual Arts Editor, jolle.art.literature@
Titles: “Orbit” and “Teach Me”
Author: Natasha Swann
Titles (and accompanying audio recording): “No Rubric,” “Poetry Reading in Room 415,” and “Aesthetic Experience”
Author: Sandra Kurtii Pylvainen
Titles: “I Never Realized ‘Violence’ Rhymed with ‘Silence’ Until” and “The Sacred Backwards”
Author: Scott Jarvie
Titles: “Can’t,” “There Would Be Music,” and “A Child, Quite Alone”
Author: Christine Jackson
Title: “The Reading of Books”
Author: Pam Pittman
Fiction:
Title: “Tales from an American Theme Park: A One-Act”
Authors: Jeff Spanke & Sophie Whiteside
Title: “Memory Work”
Artist: Alex Winninghoff
Titles (with accompanying poems): “A Steadying Force” and “Man Talk”
Artist/Author: Jerome C. Harste
Principal Editor
Heidi Lyn Hadley
Managing Editor
William J. Fassbender
Production Editor
Alexandra L. Berglund
Conference Chairs
S. R. Toliver and T. Hunter Strickland
Digital Content Editor
William J. Fassbender
Academic Book Review Editor
Mariah Copeland Parker
Poetry, Fiction, & Visual Arts Editor
Sharon M. Nuruddin
CYAL (Children & Young Adult Literature) Editor
Stacia L. Long
Scholars Speak Out Editor
Tairan Qiu
Communications Editor
Caroline Bedingfield
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Peter Smagorinsky