Amy Tondreau
Biographic Data
| ID | 1603677 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Tondreau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy |
| FAMILY NAME | Tondreau |
| SIGNATURE | TONDREAU A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4006-9697 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Deconstructing representations of reading disability
Despite renewed attention to dyslexia in the science of reading debate, how teachers discuss representations of reading disabilities in children’s literature is often overlooked. This article shares findings on literacy specialist graduate students’ use of critical literacy in book clubs to analyse texts representing individuals with reading disabilities. Centring reading disability as an identity worthy of study, findings suggested that particip…
Disrupting Niceness in Literacy Teacher Education
Many teacher educators seek to implement culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) in their courses. However, enactment is often mediated by our socialization into whiteness and niceness. This study investigates how our self-study community of practice (SSCoP) of eight White female literacy teacher educators at different institutions collaborated to narrow the gap between our aspirations for implementing CRP and enacted practice. Through analysis of col…
Nice Girls like Us
Niceness includes behaviors such as avoiding conflict or controversial topics, being submissive and people-pleasing, performing teaching as “love” in uncritical ways, accepting deficit perspectives, and upholding patriarchal structures. In the spirit of Niceness, white female teachers often avoid the work of challenging inequitable systems because doing so leaves them vulnerable to being seen as “not nice” or troublemakers. In this article, we in…
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Nice Girls like Us
Niceness includes behaviors such as avoiding conflict or controversial topics, being submissive and people-pleasing, performing teaching as “love” in uncritical ways, accepting deficit perspectives, and upholding patriarchal structures. In the spirit of Niceness, white female teachers often avoid the work of challenging inequitable systems because doing so leaves them vulnerable to being seen as “not nice” or troublemakers. In this article, we in…
Deconstructing representations of reading disability
Despite renewed attention to dyslexia in the science of reading debate, how teachers discuss representations of reading disabilities in children’s literature is often overlooked. This article shares findings on literacy specialist graduate students’ use of critical literacy in book clubs to analyse texts representing individuals with reading disabilities. Centring reading disability as an identity worthy of study, findings suggested that particip…
Disrupting Niceness in Literacy Teacher Education
Many teacher educators seek to implement culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) in their courses. However, enactment is often mediated by our socialization into whiteness and niceness. This study investigates how our self-study community of practice (SSCoP) of eight White female literacy teacher educators at different institutions collaborated to narrow the gap between our aspirations for implementing CRP and enacted practice. Through analysis of col…
Critical Race Theory in Education (2 works) · Literacy (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Context (archaeology) (1 work) · Critical literacy (1 work) · Critical reading (1 work) · Disability studies (1 work)