Joanne Larson:
CLASS OF 1974
San Bernardino High SchoolClass of 1974
San bernardino, CA
University of California - EducationClass of 1995
Los angeles, CA
University of California - DesignClass of 1981
Los angeles, CA
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Joanne Larson is Professor and Chair of the Teaching and Curriculum program at the University of Rochesters Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development. Her ethnographic research examines how language and literacy practices mediate social and power relations in literacy events in schools and communities. She is the editor of Literacy as Snake Oil: Beyond the Quick Fix (Lang, 2001), currently in production of a second edition due in spring of 2007. She is co-editor of the Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy (Sage, 2003), which provides an overview of contemporar...Expand for more
y research into early childhood literacy. Her newly published book, Making Literacy Real: Theories and Practices in Learning and Teaching (2005) co-authored with Jackie Marsh, explores the breadth of the complex and important field of literacy studies, orientating literacy as a social practice grounded in social, cultural, historical and political contexts. Larson has recently branched out from traditional publication venues to collaboratively produce a documentary film, A Life Outside, which explores the teaching life of Lynn Astarita Gatto, 2004 New York State Teacher of the Year.
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