Kathryn Henderson
Biographic Data
| ID | 98933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn Henderson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn |
| FAMILY NAME | Henderson |
| SIGNATURE | HENDERSON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at San Antonio |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8857-9317 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Latina/o bilingual teacher candidates' experiences with raciolinguistic dystopian and utopian moments and spaces
This study draws from a critical ethnography with Latina/o bilingual teacher candidates (TCs) in Southwest Texas. Using raciolinguistic ideologies as our lens, we examined data coming from participant‐observation field notes, interviews, and artifacts. We found that these TCs have experienced raciolinguistic dystopian moments where their linguistic practices and identities are marginalized. We also found that, in the face of marginalizing ideolog…
Latina mother and teacher insights and narratives at the intersection of dual language bilingual education and special education
Mexican and Mexican-American mothers’ visions and decisions amidst dual language bilingual education expansion
The purpose of this study was to examine Mexican and Mexican-American mothers’ perspectives about the construction of two-way dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programs in the context of an urban area in South Texas and to analyze the factors that contribute to their decision about their children’s participation in such programs. Our main data sources included 14 interviews, two personal narratives, field notes, and audio recordings from s…
“I Look Mexican, So They Assume I Speak Spanish”
This critical discourse analysis study examines Latinx primary and secondary school teacher candidates’ (TCs) struggles with raciolinguistic ideologies that connect speaking Spanish to being authentically Latinx. Data came from a larger qualitative project, in which these TCs engaged in reflexive language ideology and awareness tasks, as part of an English‐as‐a‐second‐language methods class at a large Hispanic‐serving university in Texas. In this…
Provision of a Multidisciplinary Post-Suicidal, Community-Based Aftercare Program
We live in the age of choice”
Linguistically Responsive Instruction for Latinx Teacher Candidates
This qualitative study explored Linguistically Responsive Instruction (LRI) for linguistically diverse Latinx preservice Teacher Candidates (TCs) at a tertiary institution in the southwest region of the United States. To provide an example of preparing TCs to engage in LRI by helping them reflect upon ideological orientations, we operationalized LRI as a series of three reflective tasks—language portraits, ideology trees, and utterance analysis—d…
Hard won lessons learned in the evaluation field
This article explores parallels between the recent emergence of Behavioural Insights (BI) as an applied public policy‐related field and the first years of the evaluation field (dating back to the 1960s). We identify four developments in the evaluation field and implications relevant for BI. We then identify three challenges that lie ahead for BI, with the most significant involving professionalizing BI practice. We identify several advantages to …
Language Ideological Multiplicity and Tension within Dual Language Bilingual Education Teachers
Dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programs are critical sites for exploring language ideologies given the policy goals of student bilingualism, biliteracy, and biculturalism. Drawing on a larger study of language ideological inquiry, this article used predominantly interview data to explore the articulated language ideological stances of teachers implementing a district-wide DLBE program in central Texas. The article builds from the assimi…
The danger of the dual-language enrichment narrative
Researchers have identified inequities in dual-language bilingual education (DLBE) student participation, and with large-scale DLBE expansion, equitable student access is an increasingly important issue. In this study, I used a multimethod, multisite, comparative analysis to critically examine educator discourses addressing student participation in DLBE from two highly distinct bilingual education contexts (one in which the programs are generally…
Mount Longjiao’s “Capital of Immortals” [龍角仙都]
The Abbey Celebrating the Tang [ Qingtang guan 慶唐觀], a Daoist temple on Mount Longjiao in southern Shanxi Province, played a special role in the religious history of China in the Tang dynasty. Because of the myth that Laozi himself emerged from this mountain during the war to found the Tang state, this abbey was closely linked to the political legitimation of the Tang. Even plants in this abbey were regarded as the harbingers of the fate of the s…
A Critical Discussion of Daniel A. Bell’s Political Meritocracy
“Meritocracy” is among the political phenomena and political orientations found in modern Western democratic systems. Daniel A. Bell, however, imposes it on ancient Confucianism and contemporary China and refers to it in Chinese using loaded terms such as xianneng zhengzhi 賢能政治 and shangxian zhi 尚賢制. Bell’s “political meritocracy” not only consists of an anti-democratic political program but also is full of logical contradictions: at times, it is…
Mister, you’re writing in Spanglish”
We examine how a third-grade bilingual teacher engaged in translanguaging shifts—the moment-to-moment changes in language practices—during instruction in response to students’ language performances. We demonstrate how a teacher’s high level of multilingual awareness connected to fostering classroom spaces with linguistic flexibility that leveraged translanguaging practices as a resource. We present pedagogical practices of teacher translanguaging…
Teacher language ideologies mediating classroom-level language policy in the implementation of dual language bilingual education
Educator language ideologies and a top-down dual language program
Dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programs are framed to reflect pluralist discourses (de Jong, E. [2013]. “Policy Discourses and U.S. Language in Education Policies.” Peabody Journal of Education 88 (1): 98–111) and affiliated language ideologies. The continued expansion of DLBE programs not surprisingly brings to light the diverse and ever-changing landscape of educator language ideologies. This survey-based study used inferential statis…
Dual Language Bilingual Education Placement Practices
This article explores the placement practices of students into different educational programs in PreK–first grade, including two bilingual education programs and an ESL “mainstream” classroom. We then examine the discourse practices of four third-grade teachers and the school principal. Our findings suggest that initial program placement resulted in a perception that students were tracked by ability, and educator discourses on student ability ref…
Teacher and Student Language Practices and Ideologies in a Third-Grade Two-Way Dual Language Program Implementation
This article provides an in-depth exploration of the language ecologies of two classrooms attempting to implement a two-way dual language (TWDL) program and its mediating conditions. Drawing on ethnographic methods and a sociocultural understanding of language, we examined both teachers’ and students’ language ideologies and language practices, including the use of Spanish, English, and code-switching. The English language arts teacher adhered to…
Team teaching among mixed messages
Reframing the Debate on Language Separation
The policy of strict separation of languages for academic instruction dominates dual language bilingual education programming. This article explores the dynamic bilingual practices of two experienced bilingual teachers in a two‐way dual language public school in Texas and contributes to current research problematizing language separation. Data included interviews, field notes, and classroom interaction video in a pre‐kindergarten and a first grad…
Ethics, Culture, and Structure in the Negotiation of Straw Bale Building Codes
This study explores building code negotiation between straw bale advocates' ecology-oriented values and health and safety values that underlie building codes in general by focusing on how values and ethics are articulated and embodied in practice and discourse in the two states where straw bale building standards were first initiated. The local, contingent nature of interactions, grounded in particular practices, material culture, and written and…
Twentieth century copper stocks and flows in North America
Spectrum of Belief
Improvisational choreography in teleservice work
This naturalistic study of the ordinary work practice of sales representatives employed by the call centre of a large office-equipment company focuses on the actions of those sales reps during their calls with customers. We show how this work performance is organized through an improvisational choreography of action involving not only the turn-by-turn interchange with customers on the telephone but also the concurrent utilization of a variety of …
Prospective Teachers' Attitudes toward Bullying and Victimization
In the present study, the effects of both contextual and individual factors on attitudes toward bullying among prospective teachers were examined. Contextual factors included type of aggression and the condition of having witnessed bullying. Individual factors included sex, age, empathy, sex role orientation and belief in a just world. A MANCOVA revealed no sex differences, but there was a significant main effect of the contextual factors on (a) …
On line and on paper
The role of representation in the production of technoscientific knowledge has become a subject of great interest in recent years. In this book, sociologist and art critic Kathryn Henderson offers a new perspective on this topic by exploring the impact of computer graphic systems on the visual culture of engineering design. Henderson shows how designers use drawings both to organize work and knowledge and to recruit and organize resources, politi…
Flexible Sketches and Inflexible Data Bases
Engineering sketches and drawings are the building blocks of technological design and production. These visual representations act as the means for organizing the design to production process, hence serving as a "social glue" both between individuals and between groups. The author discusses two main capacities such visual representations serve in facilitating distributed cognition in team design work As conscription devices, they enlist and organ…
Improvisational choreography in teleservice work
This naturalistic study of the ordinary work practice of sales representatives employed by the call centre of a large office-equipment company focuses on the actions of those sales reps during their calls with customers. We show how this work performance is organized through an improvisational choreography of action involving not only the turn-by-turn interchange with customers on the telephone but also the concurrent utilization of a variety of …
The Political Career of a Prototype
This study focuses on the political career of the drawing/prototype pair, a linked series of visually oriented sets, that resides in the borderland between research/development and production in industrial design engineering. In this frontier space both consensus and conflict occur between groups and between individuals. Attention to the metamorphosis of design through interactions centered around the interlinked drawing/prototype pair reveals th…
Mister, you’re writing in Spanglish”
We examine how a third-grade bilingual teacher engaged in translanguaging shifts—the moment-to-moment changes in language practices—during instruction in response to students’ language performances. We demonstrate how a teacher’s high level of multilingual awareness connected to fostering classroom spaces with linguistic flexibility that leveraged translanguaging practices as a resource. We present pedagogical practices of teacher translanguaging…
Linguistically Responsive Instruction for Latinx Teacher Candidates
This qualitative study explored Linguistically Responsive Instruction (LRI) for linguistically diverse Latinx preservice Teacher Candidates (TCs) at a tertiary institution in the southwest region of the United States. To provide an example of preparing TCs to engage in LRI by helping them reflect upon ideological orientations, we operationalized LRI as a series of three reflective tasks—language portraits, ideology trees, and utterance analysis—d…
Team teaching among mixed messages
We live in the age of choice”
Language Ideological Multiplicity and Tension within Dual Language Bilingual Education Teachers
Dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programs are critical sites for exploring language ideologies given the policy goals of student bilingualism, biliteracy, and biculturalism. Drawing on a larger study of language ideological inquiry, this article used predominantly interview data to explore the articulated language ideological stances of teachers implementing a district-wide DLBE program in central Texas. The article builds from the assimi…
The Aura of "High Tech" in A World of Messy Practice
This study employs interlocking analytical devices from the perspectives of several disciplines to explore members' meanings through definitions of “high technology” given by workers in design engineering. The comparative analysis employs concepts from art history, sociology of culture, anthropology and science studies to explore the appeal of “high technology” in comparison with the aura of original artworks and the status accrued by symbolic to…
Hard won lessons learned in the evaluation field
This article explores parallels between the recent emergence of Behavioural Insights (BI) as an applied public policy‐related field and the first years of the evaluation field (dating back to the 1960s). We identify four developments in the evaluation field and implications relevant for BI. We then identify three challenges that lie ahead for BI, with the most significant involving professionalizing BI practice. We identify several advantages to …
Provision of a Multidisciplinary Post-Suicidal, Community-Based Aftercare Program
Introduction
Objects and Others
Flexible Sketches and Inflexible Data Bases
Engineering sketches and drawings are the building blocks of technological design and production. These visual representations act as the means for organizing the design to production process, hence serving as a "social glue" both between individuals and between groups. The author discusses two main capacities such visual representations serve in facilitating distributed cognition in team design work As conscription devices, they enlist and organ…
Introduction
Science, Technology, and Society
Introduction - Sociology of Science and Technology - Sociology and Science Policy: Opening and Managing the 'Black Box' - Exploiting Science and Technology I - Exploiting Science and Technology II - Controlling Science and Technology: Popular and Radical Alternatives - Conclusion
Controversial Science
The Political Career of a Prototype
This study focuses on the political career of the drawing/prototype pair, a linked series of visually oriented sets, that resides in the borderland between research/development and production in industrial design engineering. In this frontier space both consensus and conflict occur between groups and between individuals. Attention to the metamorphosis of design through interactions centered around the interlinked drawing/prototype pair reveals th…
The Aura of "High Tech" in A World of Messy Practice
This study employs interlocking analytical devices from the perspectives of several disciplines to explore members' meanings through definitions of “high technology” given by workers in design engineering. The comparative analysis employs concepts from art history, sociology of culture, anthropology and science studies to explore the appeal of “high technology” in comparison with the aura of original artworks and the status accrued by symbolic to…
On line and on paper
The role of representation in the production of technoscientific knowledge has become a subject of great interest in recent years. In this book, sociologist and art critic Kathryn Henderson offers a new perspective on this topic by exploring the impact of computer graphic systems on the visual culture of engineering design. Henderson shows how designers use drawings both to organize work and knowledge and to recruit and organize resources, politi…
Prospective Teachers' Attitudes toward Bullying and Victimization
In the present study, the effects of both contextual and individual factors on attitudes toward bullying among prospective teachers were examined. Contextual factors included type of aggression and the condition of having witnessed bullying. Individual factors included sex, age, empathy, sex role orientation and belief in a just world. A MANCOVA revealed no sex differences, but there was a significant main effect of the contextual factors on (a) …
Spectrum of Belief
Improvisational choreography in teleservice work
This naturalistic study of the ordinary work practice of sales representatives employed by the call centre of a large office-equipment company focuses on the actions of those sales reps during their calls with customers. We show how this work performance is organized through an improvisational choreography of action involving not only the turn-by-turn interchange with customers on the telephone but also the concurrent utilization of a variety of …
Twentieth century copper stocks and flows in North America
Ethics, Culture, and Structure in the Negotiation of Straw Bale Building Codes
This study explores building code negotiation between straw bale advocates' ecology-oriented values and health and safety values that underlie building codes in general by focusing on how values and ethics are articulated and embodied in practice and discourse in the two states where straw bale building standards were first initiated. The local, contingent nature of interactions, grounded in particular practices, material culture, and written and…
Reframing the Debate on Language Separation
The policy of strict separation of languages for academic instruction dominates dual language bilingual education programming. This article explores the dynamic bilingual practices of two experienced bilingual teachers in a two‐way dual language public school in Texas and contributes to current research problematizing language separation. Data included interviews, field notes, and classroom interaction video in a pre‐kindergarten and a first grad…
Teacher and Student Language Practices and Ideologies in a Third-Grade Two-Way Dual Language Program Implementation
This article provides an in-depth exploration of the language ecologies of two classrooms attempting to implement a two-way dual language (TWDL) program and its mediating conditions. Drawing on ethnographic methods and a sociocultural understanding of language, we examined both teachers’ and students’ language ideologies and language practices, including the use of Spanish, English, and code-switching. The English language arts teacher adhered to…
Team teaching among mixed messages
Dual Language Bilingual Education Placement Practices
This article explores the placement practices of students into different educational programs in PreK–first grade, including two bilingual education programs and an ESL “mainstream” classroom. We then examine the discourse practices of four third-grade teachers and the school principal. Our findings suggest that initial program placement resulted in a perception that students were tracked by ability, and educator discourses on student ability ref…
Teacher language ideologies mediating classroom-level language policy in the implementation of dual language bilingual education
Educator language ideologies and a top-down dual language program
Dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programs are framed to reflect pluralist discourses (de Jong, E. [2013]. “Policy Discourses and U.S. Language in Education Policies.” Peabody Journal of Education 88 (1): 98–111) and affiliated language ideologies. The continued expansion of DLBE programs not surprisingly brings to light the diverse and ever-changing landscape of educator language ideologies. This survey-based study used inferential statis…
A Critical Discussion of Daniel A. Bell’s Political Meritocracy
“Meritocracy” is among the political phenomena and political orientations found in modern Western democratic systems. Daniel A. Bell, however, imposes it on ancient Confucianism and contemporary China and refers to it in Chinese using loaded terms such as xianneng zhengzhi 賢能政治 and shangxian zhi 尚賢制. Bell’s “political meritocracy” not only consists of an anti-democratic political program but also is full of logical contradictions: at times, it is…
Mister, you’re writing in Spanglish”
We examine how a third-grade bilingual teacher engaged in translanguaging shifts—the moment-to-moment changes in language practices—during instruction in response to students’ language performances. We demonstrate how a teacher’s high level of multilingual awareness connected to fostering classroom spaces with linguistic flexibility that leveraged translanguaging practices as a resource. We present pedagogical practices of teacher translanguaging…
The danger of the dual-language enrichment narrative
Researchers have identified inequities in dual-language bilingual education (DLBE) student participation, and with large-scale DLBE expansion, equitable student access is an increasingly important issue. In this study, I used a multimethod, multisite, comparative analysis to critically examine educator discourses addressing student participation in DLBE from two highly distinct bilingual education contexts (one in which the programs are generally…
Mount Longjiao’s “Capital of Immortals” [龍角仙都]
The Abbey Celebrating the Tang [ Qingtang guan 慶唐觀], a Daoist temple on Mount Longjiao in southern Shanxi Province, played a special role in the religious history of China in the Tang dynasty. Because of the myth that Laozi himself emerged from this mountain during the war to found the Tang state, this abbey was closely linked to the political legitimation of the Tang. Even plants in this abbey were regarded as the harbingers of the fate of the s…
Language Ideological Multiplicity and Tension within Dual Language Bilingual Education Teachers
Dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programs are critical sites for exploring language ideologies given the policy goals of student bilingualism, biliteracy, and biculturalism. Drawing on a larger study of language ideological inquiry, this article used predominantly interview data to explore the articulated language ideological stances of teachers implementing a district-wide DLBE program in central Texas. The article builds from the assimi…
We live in the age of choice”
Sociology (21 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Pedagogy (13 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (10 works) · Bilingual education (9 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (8 works)