Lisa Patel Stevens
Biographic Data
| ID | 2367508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Patel Stevens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa Patel |
| FAMILY NAME | Stevens |
| SIGNATURE | STEVENS L P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Perceptions of inclusive education: A mixed methods investigation of parental attitudes in three Australian primary schools
Growing numbers of families now enrol their children in inclusive schools. The purpose of this research was to investigate the perceptions of 44 Australian parents, eight parents had children with disabilities and 36 had children who are typically developing. Data were collected using a questionnaire incorporating the Attitudes Towards Inclusion/Mainstreaming scale and a focus group for parents of children with disabilities. Parents all agreed th…
Policy Analysis and Document‐Based Literacy Research
In Lisa Patel Stevens's undergraduate training as a print journalist, a professor handed her the journalistic charge succinctly: A newspaper should convey what it was like to be alive on that day in that place. Fairly straightforward, right? However, even a cursory scratch of the surface of that statement agitates and enlivens the complexity that spills over the capacity of texts to capture lived realities neutrally. For example, depending upon t…
Literacy, Capital, and Education: A View From Immigrant Youth
From conservative estimates, as many as 1 in every 5 schoolchildren is an immigrant. Through both sheer numbers and qualitatively different migration practices, these populations have productively created an opportunity and imperative for educational practice to redefine its assumptions, practices, and relevancy. In this article, the author present snapshots of young immigrants navigating schooling and society, and more specifically, elucidate ho…
Dear President Obama and Secretary Duncan: You Are Looking Through the Wrong Window
In this policy analysis column, we use the analytic tools of frame analysis to explore the ideologies, implicit and explicit, in the Obama administration's educational policies. In particular, we explore the ways that the initiatives are being framed through an oversimplified view of the “problem” in education and a capitalist‐based approach to fixing that problem. For a point of conjecture, we offer an alternative framing of the challenges facin…
Critical Literacy for Xenophobia: A Wake‐Up Call
Critical literacy has been on the map of literacy pedagogy internationally since the time of Freire, and more commonplace in the United States in the last few decades. However, in this column the authors argue that the common practices of critical literacy are insufficient for critical engagement with texts. The tools of critical literacy are employed to explore ways in which recent legislation about immigration and ethnicity in Arizona is connec…
Maps to Interrupt a Pathology: Immigrant Populations and Education
From a critical language perspective, the main issues facing education of immigrant populations are the ways in which these populations are segregated as the Other and how educational practices often work to perpetuate a fringe status. In this paper, I draw upon both discursive perspectives on policymaking and pedagogical practices to address the ways in which immigrant multilingual populations are conflated as deficient English Language Learners…
Professional Resources
(Re)Framing Policy Analysis
In recent years, there has been a flurry of media and public policy attention paid to adolescent literacy. The attention has taken shape in the form of federal policies, research, recommendations from private entities, and position statements from professional organizations. The work pressing upon educators now is to engage substantively with these various incarnations and positions on adolescent literacy; to understand where and how issues about…
Early Literacy Policy: National and Local Instantiations
This paper explores the political, social, and cultural contexts of current early literacy federal policies in the United States. Building upon existing critiques of the policy and its epistemological stances, this paper first analyses the planning and discussion surrounding the introduction of the policy to state leaders and also how it is first discussed and planned for in one local context. The paper poses questions of how language and literac…
Perceptions of inclusive education: A mixed methods investigation of parental attitudes in three Australian primary schools
Growing numbers of families now enrol their children in inclusive schools. The purpose of this research was to investigate the perceptions of 44 Australian parents, eight parents had children with disabilities and 36 had children who are typically developing. Data were collected using a questionnaire incorporating the Attitudes Towards Inclusion/Mainstreaming scale and a focus group for parents of children with disabilities. Parents all agreed th…
Literacy, Capital, and Education: A View From Immigrant Youth
From conservative estimates, as many as 1 in every 5 schoolchildren is an immigrant. Through both sheer numbers and qualitatively different migration practices, these populations have productively created an opportunity and imperative for educational practice to redefine its assumptions, practices, and relevancy. In this article, the author present snapshots of young immigrants navigating schooling and society, and more specifically, elucidate ho…
Early Literacy Policy: National and Local Instantiations
This paper explores the political, social, and cultural contexts of current early literacy federal policies in the United States. Building upon existing critiques of the policy and its epistemological stances, this paper first analyses the planning and discussion surrounding the introduction of the policy to state leaders and also how it is first discussed and planned for in one local context. The paper poses questions of how language and literac…
(Re)Framing Policy Analysis
In recent years, there has been a flurry of media and public policy attention paid to adolescent literacy. The attention has taken shape in the form of federal policies, research, recommendations from private entities, and position statements from professional organizations. The work pressing upon educators now is to engage substantively with these various incarnations and positions on adolescent literacy; to understand where and how issues about…
Maps to Interrupt a Pathology: Immigrant Populations and Education
From a critical language perspective, the main issues facing education of immigrant populations are the ways in which these populations are segregated as the Other and how educational practices often work to perpetuate a fringe status. In this paper, I draw upon both discursive perspectives on policymaking and pedagogical practices to address the ways in which immigrant multilingual populations are conflated as deficient English Language Learners…
Professional Resources
Dear President Obama and Secretary Duncan: You Are Looking Through the Wrong Window
In this policy analysis column, we use the analytic tools of frame analysis to explore the ideologies, implicit and explicit, in the Obama administration's educational policies. In particular, we explore the ways that the initiatives are being framed through an oversimplified view of the “problem” in education and a capitalist‐based approach to fixing that problem. For a point of conjecture, we offer an alternative framing of the challenges facin…
Critical Literacy for Xenophobia: A Wake‐Up Call
Critical literacy has been on the map of literacy pedagogy internationally since the time of Freire, and more commonplace in the United States in the last few decades. However, in this column the authors argue that the common practices of critical literacy are insufficient for critical engagement with texts. The tools of critical literacy are employed to explore ways in which recent legislation about immigration and ethnicity in Arizona is connec…
Literacy, Capital, and Education: A View From Immigrant Youth
From conservative estimates, as many as 1 in every 5 schoolchildren is an immigrant. Through both sheer numbers and qualitatively different migration practices, these populations have productively created an opportunity and imperative for educational practice to redefine its assumptions, practices, and relevancy. In this article, the author present snapshots of young immigrants navigating schooling and society, and more specifically, elucidate ho…
Policy Analysis and Document‐Based Literacy Research
In Lisa Patel Stevens's undergraduate training as a print journalist, a professor handed her the journalistic charge succinctly: A newspaper should convey what it was like to be alive on that day in that place. Fairly straightforward, right? However, even a cursory scratch of the surface of that statement agitates and enlivens the complexity that spills over the capacity of texts to capture lived realities neutrally. For example, depending upon t…
Perceptions of inclusive education: A mixed methods investigation of parental attitudes in three Australian primary schools
Growing numbers of families now enrol their children in inclusive schools. The purpose of this research was to investigate the perceptions of 44 Australian parents, eight parents had children with disabilities and 36 had children who are typically developing. Data were collected using a questionnaire incorporating the Attitudes Towards Inclusion/Mainstreaming scale and a focus group for parents of children with disabilities. Parents all agreed th…
Sociology (9 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Literacy (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Literacy, Media, and Education (4 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (3 works) · Framing (construction (3 works)