James R King
Biographic Data
| ID | 116394 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James R King |
| GIVEN NAMES | James R |
| FAMILY NAME | King |
| SIGNATURE | KING J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wittenberg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0324-2059 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Popular Stories About Reading: Selling Simple Ideas in the Public Sphere
The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study
Synthesizing Professional Knowledge and Racial Literacy Content Through Explicit Composing Instruction: A Discourse Synthesis Study
This design-based study occurred within a writing methods course in an urban teacher education program. We designed an intervention to develop student teachers’ meta-composing strategies, critical thinking, and justice-oriented reflexivity by revising a teacher-as-writer course assignment to achieve two pedagogical goals: (1) synthesizing antiracist and pedagogical content from curated source texts, and (2) explicating racial literacy as future w…
Innovation in Qualitative Research: Insights From Terminological Research on the Reading Wars
This article presents a case for terminological research, a form of qualitative inquiry that systematically studies terminology within professional domains. Terminological research is a research method used to clarify the meanings of terms and concepts and to enhance professional communication, however, it is a method that has been underused. This paper offers examples and insights of such inquiry from literacy studies, a field already interested…
Towards implementation of robust monitoring technologies alongside freshwater improvement policy in Aotearoa New Zealand
International studies point out that some freshwater policy objectives are not achieved. This study describes that this is in part caused by shortcomings that include: the lack of targeted monitoring schemes to measure impact; a too small range of specific technologies rather than a wider suite of integrated multiple technologies; a too tight focus on sub-sets of stakeholders instead of the involvement of the wider range of end users; and poor tr…
Scalable modEls of Community rehAbilitation for Individuals Recovering From Covid: 19 ReLated illnEss: A Longitudinal Service Evaluation Protocol—“SeaCole Cohort Evaluation”
Introduction: High levels of physical, cognitive, and psychosocial impairments are anticipated for those recovering from the COVID-19. In the UK, ~50% of survivors will require additional rehabilitation. Despite this, there is currently no evidence-based guideline available in England and Wales that addresses the identification, timing and nature of effective interventions to manage the morbidity associated following COVID-19. It is now timely to…
Between word and text in life narratives: Using discourse synthesis to model processes
The purpose of this essay is to examine the relationships between “the oral” and “the written” in a particular application of narrative research (life rendering research). First, we examine a functional and valuing contrast between oral and written language within oral history methods. Second, we present a critical examination of the use of these linguistic predispositions as they impact life history narratives. Next, we examine a particularly cl…
Revisiting Ethics: Updating Earlier Beliefs With a Queer Exemplar
In this article, the authors update key constructs in the area of ethics within qualitative research in literacy. Issues such as newer interpretive theory, media incursion into data security, and newer expectations for privacy problematize what were once "taken-for-granted" assumptions about the ethical conduct of qualitative inquiry as it is now practiced in the fields of literacy education and queered ethics
Accelerating reflexivity? An ethno-theater interpretation of a pre-service teacher literacy methods field experience
During a teaching methods field experience, we initiated several processes to facilitate pre-service teachers’ reflection, empowerment, and performance as they learned to teach students. Through an ethno-theater presentation and subsequent revisions to an ethno-theater script, we turned the reflective lens on ourselves as we discovered instances of our teaching within this field experience that required us to look at our data and ourselves as con…
Service learning and literacy tutoring: Academic impact on pre-service teachers
The (Im)possibility of Gay Teachers for Young Children
Those who teach, or intend to teach, young children undergo careful scrutiny as to their suitability for the role of teacher. In general, professional monitoring of teaching standards and teacher qualities are reasonable expectations. However, a set of related cultural practices embedded in such monitoring purposefully and unjustly impact men who wish to teach young children. The underlying issues of this injustice are: (a) social expectations fo…
Inconsistencies in Education and Ethnography Offer Rays of Hope
Presentation et commentaire de deux ouvrages qui traitent des contextes educationnels a partir d'une demarche ethnographique : Cooperative learning in context: An educational innovation in everyday classrooms (Evelyn Jacob, 1999) ; et Particularities: Collected essays on ethnography and education (George W. Noblit, 1999). Mettant en perspective la problematique de la recherche qualitative en recherche educationnelle, l'A. met en evidence les cont…
Am not! Are too! Using queer standpoint in postmodern critical ethnography
In this essay, I examine the act of identity assumption by researchers for the effects on their interpretations of data. This examination is itself made more complex by the inclusion of a researcher agenda necessary for critical ethnography and by the insertion of a queer standpoint that renders that researcher agenda queer. After presenting an example of queer identity in my own research, I examine several frameworks that help explain the necess…
The Parables of Jesus: A Social Psychological Approach
This article examines certain parables of Jesus as psychosocial documents, describing the reactions of various individuals to social situations. The justification for such an approach lies in Jesus’ intense concern over the commitments people make and the similarity between his teaching stories and the stories of other itinerant Middle-Eastern teachers—from Old Testament times to the present. Many such stories can be seen as reports on negotiatio…
Models as Metaphors
This article examines human interest in model building (ships, boats, trains, etc.) and draws parallels between models and (poetic) metaphors that, it is hoped, illumine both phenomena. Both models and metaphors involve important alterations of original realities in size and material. Both make available experiences otherwise beyond the reach of most people (entry into other worlds). Both facilitate the communication of ideas and feelings that li…
Collaborative life history narratives: Heroes in reading teachers’ tales
Interesting perspectives emerge when teachers interview other teachers about their shared profession. The narratives reveal common themes. Interviewed subjects are cast as heroes born to the task, subjected to trials, and strengthened through their tolerance and balance. In this study, a model is offered for a student centered workshop approach to oral history and for narrative accounts of teachers. Several paradigms are presented which may accou…
George Eliot's troubled souls: A neglected chapter in the history of pastoral counseling
Jesus and Joseph in Rūm?'s Mathnaw
Bleak House as Metaphor
This article seeks to uncover the basic structure of Charles Dickens's novel Bleak House in the essential pattern of the English sentence- subject, copula, predicate-and in one specific type of sentence, the metaphor. All the central figures in the novel are attempting to complete certain life-patterns (predication) and are involved in moving or being moved about from one context to another, on the basis of some observed similarity. These moves a…
Readers as Writers Composing From Sources
IN discourse synthesis readers become writers, creating new texts by selecting, organizing, and connecting content from source texts. In this study of discourse synthesis, accomplished and less accomplished readers in the 6th, 8th, and 10th grades in U.S. schools were given a report-writing task. Over a 3-day period in their English/language arts classes, the 60 students in the study wrote informational reports composed of content they selected f…
Religious and therapeutic elements in Sufi teaching stories
The Deconstruction of the Self in Nagib Mahfuz's Mirrors
The moment as a factor in emotional well-being
The Theme of Alienation in Contemporary Middle Eastern Literature
The (Im)possibility of Gay Teachers for Young Children
Those who teach, or intend to teach, young children undergo careful scrutiny as to their suitability for the role of teacher. In general, professional monitoring of teaching standards and teacher qualities are reasonable expectations. However, a set of related cultural practices embedded in such monitoring purposefully and unjustly impact men who wish to teach young children. The underlying issues of this injustice are: (a) social expectations fo…
Readers as Writers Composing From Sources
IN discourse synthesis readers become writers, creating new texts by selecting, organizing, and connecting content from source texts. In this study of discourse synthesis, accomplished and less accomplished readers in the 6th, 8th, and 10th grades in U.S. schools were given a report-writing task. Over a 3-day period in their English/language arts classes, the 60 students in the study wrote informational reports composed of content they selected f…
Am not! Are too! Using queer standpoint in postmodern critical ethnography
In this essay, I examine the act of identity assumption by researchers for the effects on their interpretations of data. This examination is itself made more complex by the inclusion of a researcher agenda necessary for critical ethnography and by the insertion of a queer standpoint that renders that researcher agenda queer. After presenting an example of queer identity in my own research, I examine several frameworks that help explain the necess…
Service learning and literacy tutoring: Academic impact on pre-service teachers
Collaborative life history narratives: Heroes in reading teachers’ tales
Interesting perspectives emerge when teachers interview other teachers about their shared profession. The narratives reveal common themes. Interviewed subjects are cast as heroes born to the task, subjected to trials, and strengthened through their tolerance and balance. In this study, a model is offered for a student centered workshop approach to oral history and for narrative accounts of teachers. Several paradigms are presented which may accou…
Jesus and Joseph in Rūm?'s Mathnaw
Between word and text in life narratives: Using discourse synthesis to model processes
The purpose of this essay is to examine the relationships between “the oral” and “the written” in a particular application of narrative research (life rendering research). First, we examine a functional and valuing contrast between oral and written language within oral history methods. Second, we present a critical examination of the use of these linguistic predispositions as they impact life history narratives. Next, we examine a particularly cl…
Accelerating reflexivity? An ethno-theater interpretation of a pre-service teacher literacy methods field experience
During a teaching methods field experience, we initiated several processes to facilitate pre-service teachers’ reflection, empowerment, and performance as they learned to teach students. Through an ethno-theater presentation and subsequent revisions to an ethno-theater script, we turned the reflective lens on ourselves as we discovered instances of our teaching within this field experience that required us to look at our data and ourselves as con…
Inconsistencies in Education and Ethnography Offer Rays of Hope
Presentation et commentaire de deux ouvrages qui traitent des contextes educationnels a partir d'une demarche ethnographique : Cooperative learning in context: An educational innovation in everyday classrooms (Evelyn Jacob, 1999) ; et Particularities: Collected essays on ethnography and education (George W. Noblit, 1999). Mettant en perspective la problematique de la recherche qualitative en recherche educationnelle, l'A. met en evidence les cont…
The Theme of Alienation in Contemporary Middle Eastern Literature
The moment as a factor in emotional well-being
Religious and therapeutic elements in Sufi teaching stories
The Deconstruction of the Self in Nagib Mahfuz's Mirrors
Bleak House as Metaphor
This article seeks to uncover the basic structure of Charles Dickens's novel Bleak House in the essential pattern of the English sentence- subject, copula, predicate-and in one specific type of sentence, the metaphor. All the central figures in the novel are attempting to complete certain life-patterns (predication) and are involved in moving or being moved about from one context to another, on the basis of some observed similarity. These moves a…
Readers as Writers Composing From Sources
IN discourse synthesis readers become writers, creating new texts by selecting, organizing, and connecting content from source texts. In this study of discourse synthesis, accomplished and less accomplished readers in the 6th, 8th, and 10th grades in U.S. schools were given a report-writing task. Over a 3-day period in their English/language arts classes, the 60 students in the study wrote informational reports composed of content they selected f…
George Eliot's troubled souls: A neglected chapter in the history of pastoral counseling
Jesus and Joseph in Rūm?'s Mathnaw
The Parables of Jesus: A Social Psychological Approach
This article examines certain parables of Jesus as psychosocial documents, describing the reactions of various individuals to social situations. The justification for such an approach lies in Jesus’ intense concern over the commitments people make and the similarity between his teaching stories and the stories of other itinerant Middle-Eastern teachers—from Old Testament times to the present. Many such stories can be seen as reports on negotiatio…
Models as Metaphors
This article examines human interest in model building (ships, boats, trains, etc.) and draws parallels between models and (poetic) metaphors that, it is hoped, illumine both phenomena. Both models and metaphors involve important alterations of original realities in size and material. Both make available experiences otherwise beyond the reach of most people (entry into other worlds). Both facilitate the communication of ideas and feelings that li…
Collaborative life history narratives: Heroes in reading teachers’ tales
Interesting perspectives emerge when teachers interview other teachers about their shared profession. The narratives reveal common themes. Interviewed subjects are cast as heroes born to the task, subjected to trials, and strengthened through their tolerance and balance. In this study, a model is offered for a student centered workshop approach to oral history and for narrative accounts of teachers. Several paradigms are presented which may accou…
Am not! Are too! Using queer standpoint in postmodern critical ethnography
In this essay, I examine the act of identity assumption by researchers for the effects on their interpretations of data. This examination is itself made more complex by the inclusion of a researcher agenda necessary for critical ethnography and by the insertion of a queer standpoint that renders that researcher agenda queer. After presenting an example of queer identity in my own research, I examine several frameworks that help explain the necess…
Inconsistencies in Education and Ethnography Offer Rays of Hope
Presentation et commentaire de deux ouvrages qui traitent des contextes educationnels a partir d'une demarche ethnographique : Cooperative learning in context: An educational innovation in everyday classrooms (Evelyn Jacob, 1999) ; et Particularities: Collected essays on ethnography and education (George W. Noblit, 1999). Mettant en perspective la problematique de la recherche qualitative en recherche educationnelle, l'A. met en evidence les cont…
The (Im)possibility of Gay Teachers for Young Children
Those who teach, or intend to teach, young children undergo careful scrutiny as to their suitability for the role of teacher. In general, professional monitoring of teaching standards and teacher qualities are reasonable expectations. However, a set of related cultural practices embedded in such monitoring purposefully and unjustly impact men who wish to teach young children. The underlying issues of this injustice are: (a) social expectations fo…
Service learning and literacy tutoring: Academic impact on pre-service teachers
Accelerating reflexivity? An ethno-theater interpretation of a pre-service teacher literacy methods field experience
During a teaching methods field experience, we initiated several processes to facilitate pre-service teachers’ reflection, empowerment, and performance as they learned to teach students. Through an ethno-theater presentation and subsequent revisions to an ethno-theater script, we turned the reflective lens on ourselves as we discovered instances of our teaching within this field experience that required us to look at our data and ourselves as con…
Between word and text in life narratives: Using discourse synthesis to model processes
The purpose of this essay is to examine the relationships between “the oral” and “the written” in a particular application of narrative research (life rendering research). First, we examine a functional and valuing contrast between oral and written language within oral history methods. Second, we present a critical examination of the use of these linguistic predispositions as they impact life history narratives. Next, we examine a particularly cl…
Revisiting Ethics: Updating Earlier Beliefs With a Queer Exemplar
In this article, the authors update key constructs in the area of ethics within qualitative research in literacy. Issues such as newer interpretive theory, media incursion into data security, and newer expectations for privacy problematize what were once "taken-for-granted" assumptions about the ethical conduct of qualitative inquiry as it is now practiced in the fields of literacy education and queered ethics
Scalable modEls of Community rehAbilitation for Individuals Recovering From Covid: 19 ReLated illnEss: A Longitudinal Service Evaluation Protocol—“SeaCole Cohort Evaluation”
Introduction: High levels of physical, cognitive, and psychosocial impairments are anticipated for those recovering from the COVID-19. In the UK, ~50% of survivors will require additional rehabilitation. Despite this, there is currently no evidence-based guideline available in England and Wales that addresses the identification, timing and nature of effective interventions to manage the morbidity associated following COVID-19. It is now timely to…
Towards implementation of robust monitoring technologies alongside freshwater improvement policy in Aotearoa New Zealand
International studies point out that some freshwater policy objectives are not achieved. This study describes that this is in part caused by shortcomings that include: the lack of targeted monitoring schemes to measure impact; a too small range of specific technologies rather than a wider suite of integrated multiple technologies; a too tight focus on sub-sets of stakeholders instead of the involvement of the wider range of end users; and poor tr…
Synthesizing Professional Knowledge and Racial Literacy Content Through Explicit Composing Instruction: A Discourse Synthesis Study
This design-based study occurred within a writing methods course in an urban teacher education program. We designed an intervention to develop student teachers’ meta-composing strategies, critical thinking, and justice-oriented reflexivity by revising a teacher-as-writer course assignment to achieve two pedagogical goals: (1) synthesizing antiracist and pedagogical content from curated source texts, and (2) explicating racial literacy as future w…
Innovation in Qualitative Research: Insights From Terminological Research on the Reading Wars
This article presents a case for terminological research, a form of qualitative inquiry that systematically studies terminology within professional domains. Terminological research is a research method used to clarify the meanings of terms and concepts and to enhance professional communication, however, it is a method that has been underused. This paper offers examples and insights of such inquiry from literacy studies, a field already interested…
Popular Stories About Reading: Selling Simple Ideas in the Public Sphere
The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study
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