The Multiliteracies and Multilingualism Group At the Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario is hosting a
Day of Literacy Conversations
Friday May 20, 2011
9:00 am
Dr. Bill Green
, Professor of Education at Charles Sturt University in NSW, Australia. His visit is sponsored by INSPiRE and Fanshawe College. His principal research interests are in curriculum inquiry and literacy studies, curriculum history, particularly the history and politics of English teaching and the English subjects, doctoral research education, and education for rural-regional sustainability, and he has a wide range of publications across these areas. Along with 11 books and monographs and 5 major research reports, he has produced over 40 book chapters and in excess of 60 journal articles. He has been successful in winning a number of Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery and Linkage grants, among others, and is currently working on a ARC Discovery project on rural teaching, ‘incentives’ and teacher education.
1:00 pm
Dr. Maureen Walsh
Dr. Walsh’s visit is sponsored by our colleague at Brock University’s Centre for Muliteracies, Dr. Jennifer Rowsell. Dr Walsh is Professor of Literacy Education and Assistant Head of the School of Education NSW at ACU. Her position at ACU has included research project management, doctoral supervision, course coordination, course development and lecturing in Literacy Education, English Curriculum and TESOL in undergraduate and postgraduate courses, including diploma and degree courses for Aboriginal and Torres Islander students. She has many recent publications in the area of multimodal literacy.
Visiting Scholar Dr. Jennifer Rowsell. Dr. Rowsell has recently joined Brock University from Rutgers Graduate School as a Canada Research Chair in the Centre for Multiliteracies. She has researched and written in the area of New Literacy Studies – looking at ways of applying New Literacy Studies in teaching and learning; multimodality assessment in grade two classroom contexts. With Kate Pahl, she has extended multimodal work to explore how identities get sedimented in texts – building up instances of practices in schools and homes. With Anne Burke, she has looked at how middle school students read, write and make meaning in web space exploring such topics as reading path; design and redesign; the notions of affordances and constraints of modalities online. Family literacy has also featured in her work conducting parent focus groups in Toronto, Canada and Montgomery, New Jersey.
3:00 wrap up
Visiting Scholar Dr. Jennifer Rowsell. Dr. Rowsell has recently joined Brock University from Rutgers Graduate School as a Canada Research Chair in the Centre for Multiliteracies. She has researched and written in the area of New Literacy Studies – looking at ways of applying New Literacy Studies in teaching and learning; multimodality assessment in grade two classroom contexts. With Kate Pahl, she has extended multimodal work to explore how identities get sedimented in texts – building up instances of practices in schools and homes. With Anne Burke, she has looked at how middle school students read, write and make meaning in web space exploring such topics as reading path; design and redesign; the notions of affordances and constraints of modalities online. Family literacy has also featured in her work conducting parent focus groups in Toronto, Canada and Montgomery, New Jersey.