Leah A Zuidema
Biographic Data
| ID | 1605908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leah A Zuidema |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leah A |
| FAMILY NAME | Zuidema |
| SIGNATURE | ZUIDEMA L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dordt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5716-3351 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Resources Preservice Teachers Use to Think about Student Writing
This article identifies five categories of resources that preservice teachers drew on as they considered student writing and planned their own approaches to assessing and teaching writing. Identifying these resources helps us better understand how beginning writing teachers think about student writing—and better understand mismatches that commonly occur between what teacher educators teach and what new teachers actually do. Our study builds on li…
Forum
In this article, we reflect upon “the teacher as writer” and describe how we see this concept and movement developing. We articulate a view of the teacher-writer as empowered advocate. Using examples from our scholarship, we illustrate how this powerful idea can transform research conducted about and with teachers. Finally, we draw attention to the potential of the teacher-writer stance as a means of resistance to current reform efforts that dise…
Making Space for Informal Inquiry
This study brings the concept of inquiry as stance to bear on current understandings of how inquiry occurs within online networks for teacher induction. The author presents a case study of an online network that allowed 36 new teachers to participate in informal, spontaneous conversations. Genre research is used to examine the on-network, off-network relationship of teachers' inquiry activity. Using integrated analysis of the online messages and …
Myth Education
People frequently make assumptions about others because of their spoken or written use of a particular dialect or language. The varieties of English that people use are often regarded as indicators of corresponding intelligence, competence, motives, and morality. Such assumptions—frequently based on myths and misconceptions about the nature of language—can lead to discriminatory practices. Literacy educators should work to combat prejudice by dis…
Making Space for Informal Inquiry
This study brings the concept of inquiry as stance to bear on current understandings of how inquiry occurs within online networks for teacher induction. The author presents a case study of an online network that allowed 36 new teachers to participate in informal, spontaneous conversations. Genre research is used to examine the on-network, off-network relationship of teachers' inquiry activity. Using integrated analysis of the online messages and …
Myth Education
People frequently make assumptions about others because of their spoken or written use of a particular dialect or language. The varieties of English that people use are often regarded as indicators of corresponding intelligence, competence, motives, and morality. Such assumptions—frequently based on myths and misconceptions about the nature of language—can lead to discriminatory practices. Literacy educators should work to combat prejudice by dis…
Making Space for Informal Inquiry
This study brings the concept of inquiry as stance to bear on current understandings of how inquiry occurs within online networks for teacher induction. The author presents a case study of an online network that allowed 36 new teachers to participate in informal, spontaneous conversations. Genre research is used to examine the on-network, off-network relationship of teachers' inquiry activity. Using integrated analysis of the online messages and …
Forum
In this article, we reflect upon “the teacher as writer” and describe how we see this concept and movement developing. We articulate a view of the teacher-writer as empowered advocate. Using examples from our scholarship, we illustrate how this powerful idea can transform research conducted about and with teachers. Finally, we draw attention to the potential of the teacher-writer stance as a means of resistance to current reform efforts that dise…
Resources Preservice Teachers Use to Think about Student Writing
This article identifies five categories of resources that preservice teachers drew on as they considered student writing and planned their own approaches to assessing and teaching writing. Identifying these resources helps us better understand how beginning writing teachers think about student writing—and better understand mismatches that commonly occur between what teacher educators teach and what new teachers actually do. Our study builds on li…
Pedagogy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (2 works) · Competence (human resources (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Context (archaeology (1 work) · Gender Studies in Language (1 work)