Language and Literacy  

Mairi McDermott, Andrea Rosenfield

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Rachel Bell, Katelyn Copage, Matt Rogers, Pam Whitty

Rachael, Katelyn, Pam and Matt take up Sara Ahmed’s (2012) concepts of fleeting encounters and brick walls as they reflect on the feminist and decolonizing nature of their work. This paper is the product of months of conversation between the co-authors. T... see more

Hetty Roessingh, Michelle Bence

For children, hands are the critical conduit for learning the world and constructing mental models of its size and shape.  Such embodied cognition (EC) is mediated through language in the social environment. In this paper we review the literature and... see more

Monica McGlynn-Stewart, Leah Brathwaite, Lisa Hobman, Nicola Maguire, Emma Mogyorodi

This 2-year research study followed 14 kindergarten classrooms in Ontario as they used open-ended tablet applications to support literacy learning. Through multimodal slideshows the children explored identities such as reporter, teacher, and architect dur... see more

Shelley Jones

This paper discusses findings from a feminist participatory action research study conducted in the West Nile region of Northern Uganda with a group of 35 educators who attended a one-week intensive professional development course focused on promoting gend... see more

Kevin McBean, Ingrid Johnston

This article invites readers to share the experiences of a teacher and his Grade 10 students as they read and discussed Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Nigerian novel Purple Hibiscus. The novel was selected as part of a national action research study in which ... see more