John J Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 105778 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John J Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | John J |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS J J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7173-6910 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Are Manipulatives Necessary for Assessing Early Operations?
Tangible manipulatives are commonly used to teach mathematics and assess the mathematics understanding of young learners. However, manipulatives have drawbacks during assessment. To evaluate the utility and necessity of manipulatives during assessment of mathematical operations, examiners administered addition and subtraction problems with concrete manipulatives or pictorial supports to 2,390 children aged 2.8 to 6.7 years. We compared the impact…
Toward a reparative history: An interview with Catherine Hall
Thinking-with-others: David Scott, the stance of criticism, and the interview
The Contribution of a community-based organisation in challenging xenophobia through participation: A perspective from Site C, Khayelitsha
This article investigated the contribution of a community-based organisation; Site C, Action Committee Against Xenophobia in Khayelitsha, Site C, in challenging prejudice against African migrants. The purpose of the study was to explore the contributions of a Community-Based Organisation in Khayelitsha in fighting prejudice against foreign nationals in the country. This is vital as there is paucity or absence of information on the contribution of…
An Evaluation of Predatory Governance in Uganda and Indonesia
The first part of this article theorises predatory governance in general and acmes some exceptions to the process. Subsequently, it reviews the characteristics of predatory governance literature in Africa and East Asia with emphasis on Uganda and Indonesia. The study shows how leaders utilise state resources and institutions for their self-interest and exclude the masses or tax payers who sustain such regimes. We show that, the extent to which re…
U.S. children’s understanding of the English alphabet: Its acquisition, conceptualization, and measurement
Construct confusion and measurement challenges have plagued emergent literacy research for decades. Using a 2 × 2 × 2 factorial design, this study evaluated the dimensionality of alphabet knowledge and identified the sequence of development of 8 alphabet knowledge skills. Eleven models were evaluated in a sample of 3,692 preschool- and elementary school-age children. Findings supported a unidimensional conceptualization of alphabet knowledge that…
Identity and Ability
Research Article| July 01 2021 Identity and Ability: An Interview with Lennard J. Davis Jeffrey J. Williams Jeffrey J. Williams Jeffrey Williams has interviewed more than seventy critics, philosophers, and writers, appearing in journals including the minnesota review, Symploke, Iowa Review, and elsewhere. He has written on the history of the interview, notably “The Rise of the Critical Interview” (New Literary History, 2019). He also writes on co…
The Texas Kindergarten Entry Assessment: Development, Psychometrics, and Scale-Up of a Comprehensive Screener
There is a significant need for kindergarten entry assessments (KEA) that meet state education agency (SEA) requirements and are psychometrically sound measures of a broad range of school readiness domains such as language, literacy, math, science, executive function, and social-emotional skills. Research Findings: In this paper, we describe five phases of development, calibration, and launch of a new KEA for a large state. We developed and teste…
Understanding urban land, politics, and planning: A critical appraisal of Kampala's urban sprawl
This paper seeks to make a contribution to contemporary urban land insights and political debates in relation to planning in the Ugandan capital, Kampala. It also evaluates how the city authorities engage with communities on land and related urban issues. Scholars have generally ignored the important aspect of community engagement regarding planning in Kampala. Moreover, political power relations seem to influence if not determine social conditio…
Central-local state contestations and urban management in Zimbabwe
Most scholars agree that the character of the urban governance system in Zimbabwe is a reflection of the dominance of one political party, namely, Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF). However, the increasingly prominent role of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in urban governance has heralded, since the early 2000s, a period marked by change, contestation and confusion. Simultaneously, the destabilising effect of con…
Hot and cool dimensionality of executive function: Model invariance across age and maternal education in preschool children
The Rise of the Critical Interview
The Rise of the Critical Interview Jeffrey J. Williams (bio) Over the last thirty years the critical interview has emerged as a major genre in literary and cultural studies. Journals such as boundary 2, differences, the Journal of Advanced Composition (JAC), the minnesota review, Public Culture, Radical Philosophy, Social Text, symploke, Theory, Culture & Society, and Workplace have run more than three hundred such interviews, and several have ma…
Literature and the Rise of the Interview by Rebecca Roach
Reviewed by: Literature and the Rise of the Interview by Rebecca Roach Jeffrey J. Williams (bio) Literature and the Rise of the Interview Rebecca Roach Oxford UP, 2019, 304 pp. ISBN 978-0198825418, $74 hardcover. In 1953, to bolster its first issue, the Paris Review included an interview with the esteemed British author E. M. Forster. The issue carried the elements one would have expected—four stories, four poems, and four essays, for the most pa…
Hispanic dual language learning kindergarten students' response to a numeracy intervention: A randomized control trial
Politics and Criticism: An Interview with Bruce Robbins
Politics and Criticism:An Interview with Bruce Robbins Jeffrey J. Williams (bio) While we—those in the West, particularly on the Left—might criticize the oppressions of neo-imperialism, we also benefit from it. That is the quandary that Bruce Robbins confronts in his recent book, The Beneficiary (Duke UP, 2017), which looks at capitalism and global inequality through analyses of figures like George Orwell and Naomi Klein. Over his career, Robbins…
Politics, Centralisation and Service Delivery in Urban Zimbabwe
The politics of urban control has revolved around centralisation since independence in 1980. However, such politics became more pronounced after 2000 owing to the rise of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) as the main governing party in urban areas. Political tensions and contradictions ensued between central government, under the Zimbabwe African National Union (Patriotic Front) (ZANU[PF]), and local authorities, under the MDC, …
Criticism Live: The History and Practice of the Critical Interview
This essay recounts Williams's experience as an interviewer, as well as outlines the history of the genre of the critical interview. It defines the genre, discusses its uses and value, and traces its role as a cousin of the literary interview. It also offers practical comments on preparing, structuring, conducting, and editing interviews
The Challenges Facing Urbanisation Processes in Kampala
Improving school readiness of high-risk preschoolers: Combining high quality instructional strategies with responsive training for teachers and parents
Politics and the practice of planning: The case of Zimbabwean cities
Social Change: Urban Governance and Urbanization in Zimbabwe
Bidirectional Associations Between Parental Responsiveness and Executive Function During Early Childhood
In this study, we examined bidirectional associations between parental responsiveness and executive function (EF) processes in socioeconomically disadvantaged preschoolers. Participants were 534 3‐ to 5‐year‐old children (71 percent Hispanic/Latino; 28 percent African American; 1 percent European American) attending Head Start programs. At Time 1 (T1) and 6.5 months later at Time 2 (T2), parents and children participated in a videotaped free play…
Validation of a brief, screening measure of low-income pre-kindergarteners’ science and engineering knowledge
American Literature in the World: An Interview with Wai Chee Dimock
American Literature in the World” is an interview with the literary critic Wai Chee Dimock, in which she discusses her efforts to extend the field of American literature, over time and to various continents, for instance seeing the use of the ancient epic Gilgamesh in contemporary fiction and TV. She also discusses her career, beginning as a New Historicist, and her current project constructing a print-and-web anthology of American Literature in …
Effects of a responsiveness–focused intervention in family child care homes on children’s executive function
My Baby & Me”: Effects of an early, comprehensive parenting intervention on at-risk mothers and their children
This study examined the efficacy of a multimodule parenting intervention, "My Baby & Me," that began prenatally and continued until children reached 2.5 years of age. The intervention targeted specific parenting skills designed to alter trajectories of maternal and child development. Of 361 high-risk mothers (193 adolescents, 168 adults) enrolled across 4 states, half were randomly assigned to the high-intensity (HI) home visitation coaching prog…
Enhancing early child care quality and learning for toddlers at risk: The responsive early childhood program
Despite reports of positive effects of high-quality child care, few experimental studies have examined the process of improving low-quality center-based care for toddler-age children. In this article, we report intervention effects on child care teachers' behaviors and children's social, emotional, behavioral, early literacy, language, and math outcomes as well as the teacher-child relationship. The intervention targeted the use of a set of respo…
Bidirectional Associations Between Parental Responsiveness and Executive Function During Early Childhood
In this study, we examined bidirectional associations between parental responsiveness and executive function (EF) processes in socioeconomically disadvantaged preschoolers. Participants were 534 3‐ to 5‐year‐old children (71 percent Hispanic/Latino; 28 percent African American; 1 percent European American) attending Head Start programs. At Time 1 (T1) and 6.5 months later at Time 2 (T2), parents and children participated in a videotaped free play…
Politics and the practice of planning: The case of Zimbabwean cities
Improving school readiness of high-risk preschoolers: Combining high quality instructional strategies with responsive training for teachers and parents
Effects of a responsiveness–focused intervention in family child care homes on children’s executive function
Community Participation: Lessons from post-apartheid South Africa
The South African post-apartheid constitution provides for community participation in the construction, implementation and evaluation of integrated development planning at local level. This article reviews and assesses community participation in practice drawing on the findings of a range of research projects conducted in Cape Town since 1994. It is argued that contemporary understanding of community participation in South Africa is informed by t…
Hot and cool dimensionality of executive function: Model invariance across age and maternal education in preschool children
The Rise of the Theory Journal
The Rise of the Theory Journal Jeffrey J. Williams (bio) I. A New Kind of Journal The brief period between 1969 and 1979 saw the founding of a wave of new literary journals in the United States. They included New Literary History (1969), diacritics (1971), SubStance (1971), boundary 2 (1972), Feminist Studies (1972), New German Critique (1973), Critical Inquiry (1974), Semiotexte (1974), Enclitic (1977), Glyph (1977), Structuralist Review (1978),…
Environmental tobacco smoke exposure during infancy
We collected information about household smoking habits from 518 mothers when they made their first well child visit with a 6 to 8-week old infant. A urine sample was also collected from the infant, the cotinine concentration measured, and the measurement correlated with data provided by the mother. Eight percent of the infant urine cotinine values fell at or above 10 micrograms/L in the 305 households where no smoking was reported. Corresponding…
Understanding urban land, politics, and planning: A critical appraisal of Kampala's urban sprawl
This paper seeks to make a contribution to contemporary urban land insights and political debates in relation to planning in the Ugandan capital, Kampala. It also evaluates how the city authorities engage with communities on land and related urban issues. Scholars have generally ignored the important aspect of community engagement regarding planning in Kampala. Moreover, political power relations seem to influence if not determine social conditio…
The Rise of the Critical Interview
The Rise of the Critical Interview Jeffrey J. Williams (bio) Over the last thirty years the critical interview has emerged as a major genre in literary and cultural studies. Journals such as boundary 2, differences, the Journal of Advanced Composition (JAC), the minnesota review, Public Culture, Radical Philosophy, Social Text, symploke, Theory, Culture & Society, and Workplace have run more than three hundred such interviews, and several have ma…
Criticism Live: The History and Practice of the Critical Interview
This essay recounts Williams's experience as an interviewer, as well as outlines the history of the genre of the critical interview. It defines the genre, discusses its uses and value, and traces its role as a cousin of the literary interview. It also offers practical comments on preparing, structuring, conducting, and editing interviews
Citizenship, Community Participation and Social Change: The Case of Area Coordinating Teams in Cape Town, South Africa
Social change does not roll in under the wheels of inevitability On the contrary; we have to organize for it, mobilize for it, struggle for it and indeed, plan for it. This is especially so in a country such as South Africa, where centuries of colonial-cum-apartheid thought and practices have led planning bureaucracies to create and perpetuate socioeconomic patterns of uneven development and neglect. Amidst the geographies of largely "white" affl…
Central-local state contestations and urban management in Zimbabwe
Most scholars agree that the character of the urban governance system in Zimbabwe is a reflection of the dominance of one political party, namely, Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF). However, the increasingly prominent role of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in urban governance has heralded, since the early 2000s, a period marked by change, contestation and confusion. Simultaneously, the destabilising effect of con…
Hispanic dual language learning kindergarten students' response to a numeracy intervention: A randomized control trial
Politics and Criticism: An Interview with Bruce Robbins
Politics and Criticism:An Interview with Bruce Robbins Jeffrey J. Williams (bio) While we—those in the West, particularly on the Left—might criticize the oppressions of neo-imperialism, we also benefit from it. That is the quandary that Bruce Robbins confronts in his recent book, The Beneficiary (Duke UP, 2017), which looks at capitalism and global inequality through analyses of figures like George Orwell and Naomi Klein. Over his career, Robbins…
Politics, Centralisation and Service Delivery in Urban Zimbabwe
The politics of urban control has revolved around centralisation since independence in 1980. However, such politics became more pronounced after 2000 owing to the rise of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) as the main governing party in urban areas. Political tensions and contradictions ensued between central government, under the Zimbabwe African National Union (Patriotic Front) (ZANU[PF]), and local authorities, under the MDC, …
IThe Little Magazine and the Theory Journal: A Response to Evan Kindley's “Big Criticism”
The Drag of Masculinity: An Interview with Judith "Jack" Halberstam
The Drag of Masculinity: An Interview with Judith "Jack" Halberstam Jeffrey J. Williams (bio) Attention to gender was a lynchpin of feminist criticism from the 1960s to the 1980s, and it usually criticized the masculine bias of society. After that, attention turned more to sexuality than gender, and to queer than to masculine-feminine dynamics. Judith "Jack" Halberstam represents a new wave of gender studies, analyzing the ways in which women use…
Science Stories: An Interview with Donna J. Haraway
Oration| November 01 2009 Science Stories: An Interview with Donna J. Haraway Jeffrey J. Williams Jeffrey J. Williams Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google the minnesota review (2009) 2010 (73-74): 133-163. https://doi.org/10.1215/00265667-2010-73-74-133 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jeffrey J. Williams; Science Stories: An Interview with Donna J. Haraway. the minnesota review 1 Nove…
Human rights and citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa
The South African constitutional discourse is the foundational agency that produces citizenship, centring subjectivity as a relational engagement with the existential reality of the everyday life of ordinary people. In this paper, however, it is pointed out that in terms of the constitutional provisions, the nature of inter-subjectivity, i.e. subject-to-subject relations, orients and indeed frames relations of power undergirding citizenship. It i…
Cultural Studies and development trends in the “New South Africa”: Some critical perspectives
THIS ARTICLE HAS a three-fold purpose: First, it reviews the key concerns contained in Keyan Tomaselli's Introduction entitled African Cultural Studies and Global Academic Hegemony. Second, as an ancillary to Tomaselli's essay, this paper outlines some related aspects of development that need to be considered to clarify and accent the dialectical nexus between theoretical reflection and human development. (1) Third, Cultural Studies, as an academ…
Stuart Hall's (1997) random thoughts provoked by the conference “Identities, Democracy, Culture and Communication in Southern Africa”, Critical Arts , 11(1/2), 1–16
SOCIAL CHANGE IN South Africa, particularly since the country's first democratic elections in 1994, has triggered various conferences which had been designed to deal with one or other crucial aspect of a society in transition (from oppressive power relations to more democratic and humanizing social practices). It is against this background of dynamic social change that Stuart Hall's (1997) oral presentation, Random Thoughts Provoked by the Confer…
Environmental tobacco smoke exposure during infancy
We collected information about household smoking habits from 518 mothers when they made their first well child visit with a 6 to 8-week old infant. A urine sample was also collected from the infant, the cotinine concentration measured, and the measurement correlated with data provided by the mother. Eight percent of the infant urine cotinine values fell at or above 10 micrograms/L in the 305 households where no smoking was reported. Corresponding…
Cultural Studies and development trends in the “New South Africa”: Some critical perspectives
THIS ARTICLE HAS a three-fold purpose: First, it reviews the key concerns contained in Keyan Tomaselli's Introduction entitled African Cultural Studies and Global Academic Hegemony. Second, as an ancillary to Tomaselli's essay, this paper outlines some related aspects of development that need to be considered to clarify and accent the dialectical nexus between theoretical reflection and human development. (1) Third, Cultural Studies, as an academ…
Stuart Hall's (1997) random thoughts provoked by the conference “Identities, Democracy, Culture and Communication in Southern Africa”, Critical Arts , 11(1/2), 1–16
SOCIAL CHANGE IN South Africa, particularly since the country's first democratic elections in 1994, has triggered various conferences which had been designed to deal with one or other crucial aspect of a society in transition (from oppressive power relations to more democratic and humanizing social practices). It is against this background of dynamic social change that Stuart Hall's (1997) oral presentation, Random Thoughts Provoked by the Confer…
Truth and reconciliation –Beyond the TRC process and findings
This article argues that the truth about colonial‐cum‐apartheid South Africa should inform the planning and development of a new social order, a society that is caring and sharing and where universal human rights are acknowledged, protected and being validated in the everyday life‐experiences of ordinary people. It suggests that the socio‐economic practices of the past, however partly disclosed by the TRC, should be transcended, to eliminate the …
Theory and the Novel: Narrative Reflexivity and the British Tradition
Transformation: Challenges for South Africa
Makgoba, M.W. (1997). MOKOKO: The Makgoba Affair--A reflection on transformation. Johannesburg: Vivlia. * Editors Note: William Makgoba was invited to reply to Williams' review. Magoba's main concern was that readers should be aware that he uses certain biological terms as metaphors. They are not meant to be read in sociobiological vein as appears to be the case in the review. General introduction THE REVIEW OF this text, as its name implies, The…
Transformative sense-making: Development in whose image? Keyan Tomaselli and the semiotics of visual representation
The defining and distinguishing feature of homo sapiens is its ability to make sense of the world, i.e. to use its intellect to understand and change both itself and the world of which it is an integral part. It is against this backdrop that this essay reviews Tomaselli's 1996 text, Appropriating Images: The Semiotics of Visual Representation/ by summarizing his key perspectives, clarifying his major operational concepts and citing particular por…
Human rights and citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa
The South African constitutional discourse is the foundational agency that produces citizenship, centring subjectivity as a relational engagement with the existential reality of the everyday life of ordinary people. In this paper, however, it is pointed out that in terms of the constitutional provisions, the nature of inter-subjectivity, i.e. subject-to-subject relations, orients and indeed frames relations of power undergirding citizenship. It i…
Towards a critical research methodology in journalism: Interrogating methodological assumptions
This paper suggests that research in journalism is quite challenging for several reasons: First, it is not a natural science, but belongs to the realm of social science, hence its research tools are directly influenced by how humans come to understand themselves as subjects within their particular societies. Second, the defining human capacity to think, to question and to respond to prevailing societal problems has a direct impact on the nature, …
Citizenship, Community Participation and Social Change: The Case of Area Coordinating Teams in Cape Town, South Africa
Social change does not roll in under the wheels of inevitability On the contrary; we have to organize for it, mobilize for it, struggle for it and indeed, plan for it. This is especially so in a country such as South Africa, where centuries of colonial-cum-apartheid thought and practices have led planning bureaucracies to create and perpetuate socioeconomic patterns of uneven development and neglect. Amidst the geographies of largely "white" affl…
The Ubiquity of Culture
The Ubiquity of Culture Jeffrey J. Williams (bio) Review essay: Francis Mulhern, Culture/Metaculture (London: Routledge, 2000) and Terry Eagleton, The Idea of Culture (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000). If you are building a house, the first thing you do is probably not to plant flowers. You dig the basement, pour the foundation, frame the building, raise and shingle the roof, put up the siding, and so forth. Then, if you have time and money left, you mig…
Phonological processing and emergent literacy in Spanish-speaking preschool children
Community Participation: Lessons from post-apartheid South Africa
The South African post-apartheid constitution provides for community participation in the construction, implementation and evaluation of integrated development planning at local level. This article reviews and assesses community participation in practice drawing on the findings of a range of research projects conducted in Cape Town since 1994. It is argued that contemporary understanding of community participation in South Africa is informed by t…
Phonological processing and emergent literacy in younger and older preschool children
Changing society by changing the thinking culture about mining hazard: A review essay on 'Safety-culture and the logic of hazard
This review essay discusses Shepperson's article in terms of Peirce's pragmaticism, a logical theory that interprets thought in terms of operation and control. Peirce's central proposition is that there is an inseparable connection between rational cognition and rational purpose. In his view, the function of thinking is to produce habits of action. Most importantly, perhaps, for him the rational meaning of every proposition lies in the future-the…
Science Stories: An Interview with Donna J. Haraway
Oration| November 01 2009 Science Stories: An Interview with Donna J. Haraway Jeffrey J. Williams Jeffrey J. Williams Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google the minnesota review (2009) 2010 (73-74): 133-163. https://doi.org/10.1215/00265667-2010-73-74-133 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jeffrey J. Williams; Science Stories: An Interview with Donna J. Haraway. the minnesota review 1 Nove…
History and Change: An Interview with Ralph Cohen
History and ChangeAn Interview with Ralph Cohen Jeffrey J. Williams When he founded New Literary History, Ralph Cohen was an established scholar of eighteenth-century British literature, with books including The Art of Discrimination: Thomson's "The Seasons" and the Language of Criticism and The Unfolding of "The Seasons."1 Though working in a traditional period, he focused on theoretical issues, notably the permutations of criticism dealing with…
The Rise of the Theory Journal
The Rise of the Theory Journal Jeffrey J. Williams (bio) I. A New Kind of Journal The brief period between 1969 and 1979 saw the founding of a wave of new literary journals in the United States. They included New Literary History (1969), diacritics (1971), SubStance (1971), boundary 2 (1972), Feminist Studies (1972), New German Critique (1973), Critical Inquiry (1974), Semiotexte (1974), Enclitic (1977), Glyph (1977), Structuralist Review (1978),…
The Drag of Masculinity: An Interview with Judith "Jack" Halberstam
The Drag of Masculinity: An Interview with Judith "Jack" Halberstam Jeffrey J. Williams (bio) Attention to gender was a lynchpin of feminist criticism from the 1960s to the 1980s, and it usually criticized the masculine bias of society. After that, attention turned more to sexuality than gender, and to queer than to masculine-feminine dynamics. Judith "Jack" Halberstam represents a new wave of gender studies, analyzing the ways in which women use…
IThe Little Magazine and the Theory Journal: A Response to Evan Kindley's “Big Criticism”
Enhancing early child care quality and learning for toddlers at risk: The responsive early childhood program
Despite reports of positive effects of high-quality child care, few experimental studies have examined the process of improving low-quality center-based care for toddler-age children. In this article, we report intervention effects on child care teachers' behaviors and children's social, emotional, behavioral, early literacy, language, and math outcomes as well as the teacher-child relationship. The intervention targeted the use of a set of respo…
My Baby & Me”: Effects of an early, comprehensive parenting intervention on at-risk mothers and their children
This study examined the efficacy of a multimodule parenting intervention, "My Baby & Me," that began prenatally and continued until children reached 2.5 years of age. The intervention targeted specific parenting skills designed to alter trajectories of maternal and child development. Of 361 high-risk mothers (193 adolescents, 168 adults) enrolled across 4 states, half were randomly assigned to the high-intensity (HI) home visitation coaching prog…
History Unabridged: An Interview with Stefan Collini
Jeffrey Williams interviews the British critic and intellectual historian Stefan Collini about his career as well as his criticism of recent policy shifts in British higher education. Collini discusses the development of his work from more academic histories of British social science to more public criticism on literary critics and intellectuals. The interview also covers his recent book, What Are Universities For?, and the situation of higher ed…
Effects of a responsiveness–focused intervention in family child care homes on children’s executive function
Social Change: Urban Governance and Urbanization in Zimbabwe
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