Joan Parker Webster
Biographic Data
| ID | 189424 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan Parker Webster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan Parker |
| FAMILY NAME | Webster |
| SIGNATURE | WEBSTER J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alaska Fairbanks |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2824-9284 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
It isn’t sloppy language
In Alaska, as elsewhere in the United States, standardized American English is privileged over both local varieties of English and Indigenous languages. This privileged position is maintained, in part, through a deficit model of language acquisition and a model of school success which locates the source of underachievement among K-12 students within the child rather than within the broader sociopolitical context of school and schooling. Using a c…
Multiliteracies Pedagogy and Language Teaching
Critical intercultural conversations
This paper explores the tensions that exist between the recognition of the importance of ethnicity and culture for individual and group identities without essentilisation, by reframing conceptualisations of multi- and interculturalism. Drawing from our ongoing ethnography conducted with a research community of Alaska Native PhD candidates involved in participatory action research, we examine how situated and multiple positionalities enacted throu…
Ethnography and multicultural/intercultural education
Ethnography and multicultural/intercultural education: uncovering the unforseen complexities, practices and unintended outcomes
Doing educational ethnography in an online world
On any given day, most of us find ourselves using technology and the Internet in a variety of ways. From communicating with a colleague on Skype or sending a message to a student via email to teach
Preserving a space for cross-cultural collaborations
This paper focuses on the notions of insider and outsider and these positions as they are situated in and out of the established western academic tradition, and the associated ethical, epistemological and methodological concerns, specifically as relates to both our independent and collaborative research with(in) Alaska Native Yup'ik communities. The paper begins with a brief discussion of traditional views of the dualistic notion of insider/outsi…
Math in a Cultural Context
Retracing Rosenblatt
In this archaeological investigation of the work of Louise Rosenblatt, we read and highlighted all text-level differences between the 1st (1938) and 5th (1995) editions of Literature as Exploration. We categorized each type of revision, traced a sample of each to the edition in which the change was made, and then extended our analysis to 70 passages
Math in a Cultural Context
Doing educational ethnography in an online world
On any given day, most of us find ourselves using technology and the Internet in a variety of ways. From communicating with a colleague on Skype or sending a message to a student via email to teach
Preserving a space for cross-cultural collaborations
This paper focuses on the notions of insider and outsider and these positions as they are situated in and out of the established western academic tradition, and the associated ethical, epistemological and methodological concerns, specifically as relates to both our independent and collaborative research with(in) Alaska Native Yup'ik communities. The paper begins with a brief discussion of traditional views of the dualistic notion of insider/outsi…
Ethnography and multicultural/intercultural education
Ethnography and multicultural/intercultural education: uncovering the unforseen complexities, practices and unintended outcomes
Retracing Rosenblatt
In this archaeological investigation of the work of Louise Rosenblatt, we read and highlighted all text-level differences between the 1st (1938) and 5th (1995) editions of Literature as Exploration. We categorized each type of revision, traced a sample of each to the edition in which the change was made, and then extended our analysis to 70 passages
Math in a Cultural Context
Preserving a space for cross-cultural collaborations
This paper focuses on the notions of insider and outsider and these positions as they are situated in and out of the established western academic tradition, and the associated ethical, epistemological and methodological concerns, specifically as relates to both our independent and collaborative research with(in) Alaska Native Yup'ik communities. The paper begins with a brief discussion of traditional views of the dualistic notion of insider/outsi…
Doing educational ethnography in an online world
On any given day, most of us find ourselves using technology and the Internet in a variety of ways. From communicating with a colleague on Skype or sending a message to a student via email to teach
Critical intercultural conversations
This paper explores the tensions that exist between the recognition of the importance of ethnicity and culture for individual and group identities without essentilisation, by reframing conceptualisations of multi- and interculturalism. Drawing from our ongoing ethnography conducted with a research community of Alaska Native PhD candidates involved in participatory action research, we examine how situated and multiple positionalities enacted throu…
Ethnography and multicultural/intercultural education
Ethnography and multicultural/intercultural education: uncovering the unforseen complexities, practices and unintended outcomes
It isn’t sloppy language
In Alaska, as elsewhere in the United States, standardized American English is privileged over both local varieties of English and Indigenous languages. This privileged position is maintained, in part, through a deficit model of language acquisition and a model of school success which locates the source of underachievement among K-12 students within the child rather than within the broader sociopolitical context of school and schooling. Using a c…
Multiliteracies Pedagogy and Language Teaching
Pedagogy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works)