Esther Prins
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 279118 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Esther Prins |
| PRENOMES | Esther |
| SOBRENOME | Prins |
| ASSINATURA | PRINS E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9630-6105 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 131 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Literacy Before It Counts
Within dominant policy discourses, adults who score poorly on standardized assessments are often positioned as deficient or lacking because they do not conform to institutionally valued forms of reading and writing. Although these adults often use literacy in complex ways in their daily lives, these vernacular (everyday, out-of-school) literacies do not count. Drawing on New Literacy Studies, recognition theory, and scholarship examining literacy…
Education for Social Change or the Status Quo? Gender, Curriculum, and the State in Soviet and Post-Soviet Belarus
Curriculum is a key mechanism through which states construct and normalize dominant gender ideologies and power relations (Paechter 2000; Apple 2004). Using critical discourse analysis, this article compares gender education curricula in Soviet- and post-Soviet-era Belarus by examining the gender norms, roles, and identities they articulate and the shifting role of education in shaping gender relations in each political era. The comparison reveal…
White Christian Nationalism, Biblical Proof Texting, and Literacy Curriculum and Instruction
If the White Christian nationalist movement has significantly galvanized parent, community, and larger‐scale political groups whose guiding ethos challenges teacher professional roles in shaping literacy curriculum and instruction, then how can literacy teachers and teacher educators better understand this movement, its interpretive orientation to biblical proof texting, and implications for literacy scholarship and education? We focus on the loc…
United for what and for whom? An analysis of White Christian nationalism in a 2023 school board election campaign
Public school board elections have become cultural battlegrounds as groups with opposing views on education, politics, religion, and social and cultural issues vie to shape public education, their communities, and the nation. To date, little research has examined White Christian nationalism as a political force shaping these elections. This paper analyzes the November 2023 State College Area School District (SCASD) school board election in a pola…
‘Daddy made a mistake and needed a time out’
Although incarcerated individuals have committed potentially ‘immoral’ crimes, many are also parents, and need to foster their children’s moral development. As such, incarcerated parents occupy a paradoxical position: they are labelled as morally deviant yet simultaneously expected to provide moral guidance for their children. This study explores the concurrent rifts and junctures between incarceration, parenting, and morality by revealing how in…
White Christian Nationalism
The ascendance of White Christian nationalism has profound implications for democracy and public institutions in the United States, including public education. This article explains the core beliefs and features of White Christian nationalism as a contemporary religiopolitical movement that seeks to fuse Christianity with civic life; delineates how and why it matters for educational research; and identifies how education scholars might begin to a…
North Korean women entrepreneurs learning from failure
“You Can’t Win a Cold War with Hot Weapons”
During the early Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union used adult literacy education to wield influence in “Third World” countries. Frank C. Laubach, the “Apostle of Literacy,” wrote prolifically about adult literacy and conducted and advised literacy campaigns in more than 100 countries, yet his work is understudied in comparative and international education. Drawing on archival analysis of Laubach’s speeches and writings (1945–61), t…
‘The video is an upgrade from them all’
In response to rising parental incarceration rates, some correctional facilities now offer family literacy and read-aloud programmes to strengthen parent–child bonds. However, the technologies used in these programmes – including older technologies such as audio and video recordings – have received little attention. Parents in the Read to Your Child/Grandchild (RYCG) programme at Pennsylvania state prisons are video recorded reading a book for th…
On the fly
Participation in adult education for community development
Participation has become so central to adult education for community development that even the World Bank supports participatory programming. This article analyses how participation is conceptualised in Training for Transformation (TfT), a Freirean-inspired curriculum used in international community development settings. TfT seeks to equip learners ‘to understand and take action in their world’, partly by shaping the curriculum itself. Using crit…
Taking initiative and constructing identity
Nearly one quarter of international graduate students in the USA and Canada are accompanied by their spouse, typically highly educated, professional women. Because they are not students, accompanying spouses’ distinctive needs and experiences are often invisible. This article focuses on an overlooked population of adult learners: accompanying spouses who enrol in English as a Second Language (ESL) courses. Qualitative data are used to explore the…
Learning and Envisioning under Climatic Uncertainty
Learning about and embracing change and uncertainty are essential for responding to climate change. Creativity, critical reflection, and cogenerative inquiry can enhance adaptive capacity, or the ability to anticipate, prepare for, and respond to adverse future impacts. However, precisely how learning about change and its driving forces occurs and how experiences are combined with envisioned yet indefinite prospects of the future are poorly under…
Receptivity toward Immigrants in Rural Pennsylvania
This article uses interview and questionnaire data to examine how adult English as a second language (ESL) providers in rural Pennsylvania perceive community receptivity toward immigrants and the factors they believe foster or hinder receptivity and immigrants' integration. ESL providers' depictions of local responses to immigrants ranged from welcoming to hostile. They identified four constellations of factors that influenced receptivity: nation…
Participant leadership in adult basic education
This article examines the conflicts and challenges that student leaders in adult basic education and literacy programs experience in balancing their leadership responsibilities with academic endeavours. Based upon a case study of an adult basic education student leadership council in New York City, the article shows that leadership activities can both support and impede academic progress. The mediating factors were time requirements for implement…
Salvadoran campesinos/as’ literacy practices and perceptions of the benefits of literacy
Participatory photography
Based on a case study of a participatory photography project with a Salvadoran adult literacy program, this article explores some of the challenges and risks that arise when people use cameras to document their lives. The article examines the unanticipated problems the author and participants encountered (i.e. suspicion, timidity, and ridicule), and elucidates how historical and sociocultural factors structured learners’ and community residents’ …
Examining interpersonal dynamics among adult learners through the lens of place
The purpose of this article is to analyze interpersonal problems among adult learners in three family literacy programs and to identify how these tensions were connected to place or distinctive community contexts. Drawing on the critical geography literature, the article argues that interpersonal problems must be understood in light of socio‐cultural and spatial factors such as the history of steel‐era industrial capitalism and immigrant settleme…
Unintended Outcomes in Second Life
Since its inception in 2003, the popularity of Second Life (SL), an online 3-D virtual environment, has increased exponentially. The global reach of SL and the opportunities it provides for cross-cultural exchange using multiple modes of communication in real and virtual worlds make it an ideal venue to examine cross-cultural engagement. Drawing on Cultural Historical Activity Theory and Heyward's model of intercultural literacy, this article ana…
Adult literacy education, gender equity and empowerment
Based on ethnographic research in rural El Salvador and drawing on New Literacy Studies (NLS) and gender and development (GAD) literature, this article examines how participation in a Freirean-inspired literacy programme fostered and/or limited women's and men's personal, interpersonal and collective empowerment. The findings reveal that participation planted seeds of agency and generated numerous psychosocial benefits such as enhanced self-estee…
Defining and Measuring Parenting for Educational Success
The Parent Education Profile (PEP) is an instrument used by family literacy programs to rate parents’ support for children’s literacy development. This article uses Critical Discourse Analysis to examine how the PEP constructs the ideal parent, the text’s underlying assumptions about parenting and education, and its ideological effects. The analysis shows how many features of the PEP evaluate parents according to a middle-class, predominantly Whi…
Interdistrict Transfers, Latino/White School Segregation, and Institutional Racism in a Small California Town
This article examines how the interdistrict transfer of White students from a majority-Latino school to a majority-White school increased school segregation in a small California town. The article argues that White parents' decisions to transfer their children, coupled with the sending school district's decision to allow the transfers, constituted institutional racism, as these practices further segregated Latino/a students in a high-poverty scho…
Aquí no somos unidos ’/‘We’re not united here’
Based on ethnographic, participatory research in two Salvadoran villages, this article analyzes how features of the sociocultural setting bred discord and mistrust among the participants in an adult literacy program and other community residents, thereby undermining the program’s goal of equipping campesinos to work together to improve their lives. The theoretical framework incorporates critical theories of adult education emphasizing communal le…
The Challenges of Fostering Community Participation
Community development professionals commonly espouse participatory ideals regarding citizens' involvement in planning and decision-making, hut enacting these ideals is another matter. This case study of a community-based organization (CBO) examines how staff members attempted to involve residents in planning and implementing projects and the challenges they faced in doing so. These challenges included achieving broad participation, especially wit…
Framing a Conflict in a Community-University Partnership
Tension and conflict are inherent in community-university partnerships, yet they can also lead to learning and growth. This article shows how four members of a partnership framed a dispute in rural California and examines how they resolved tacit, divergent expectations about communication, decision making, and authority. The dispute prompted a transition from informal to intentional decision making and helped members clarify their expectations of…
Participatory photography
Based on a case study of a participatory photography project with a Salvadoran adult literacy program, this article explores some of the challenges and risks that arise when people use cameras to document their lives. The article examines the unanticipated problems the author and participants encountered (i.e. suspicion, timidity, and ridicule), and elucidates how historical and sociocultural factors structured learners’ and community residents’ …
White Christian Nationalism
The ascendance of White Christian nationalism has profound implications for democracy and public institutions in the United States, including public education. This article explains the core beliefs and features of White Christian nationalism as a contemporary religiopolitical movement that seeks to fuse Christianity with civic life; delineates how and why it matters for educational research; and identifies how education scholars might begin to a…
Learning and Envisioning under Climatic Uncertainty
Learning about and embracing change and uncertainty are essential for responding to climate change. Creativity, critical reflection, and cogenerative inquiry can enhance adaptive capacity, or the ability to anticipate, prepare for, and respond to adverse future impacts. However, precisely how learning about change and its driving forces occurs and how experiences are combined with envisioned yet indefinite prospects of the future are poorly under…
Unintended Outcomes in Second Life
Since its inception in 2003, the popularity of Second Life (SL), an online 3-D virtual environment, has increased exponentially. The global reach of SL and the opportunities it provides for cross-cultural exchange using multiple modes of communication in real and virtual worlds make it an ideal venue to examine cross-cultural engagement. Drawing on Cultural Historical Activity Theory and Heyward's model of intercultural literacy, this article ana…
Adult literacy education, gender equity and empowerment
Based on ethnographic research in rural El Salvador and drawing on New Literacy Studies (NLS) and gender and development (GAD) literature, this article examines how participation in a Freirean-inspired literacy programme fostered and/or limited women's and men's personal, interpersonal and collective empowerment. The findings reveal that participation planted seeds of agency and generated numerous psychosocial benefits such as enhanced self-estee…
Framing a Conflict in a Community-University Partnership
Tension and conflict are inherent in community-university partnerships, yet they can also lead to learning and growth. This article shows how four members of a partnership framed a dispute in rural California and examines how they resolved tacit, divergent expectations about communication, decision making, and authority. The dispute prompted a transition from informal to intentional decision making and helped members clarify their expectations of…
The Challenges of Fostering Community Participation
Community development professionals commonly espouse participatory ideals regarding citizens' involvement in planning and decision-making, hut enacting these ideals is another matter. This case study of a community-based organization (CBO) examines how staff members attempted to involve residents in planning and implementing projects and the challenges they faced in doing so. These challenges included achieving broad participation, especially wit…
White Christian Nationalism, Biblical Proof Texting, and Literacy Curriculum and Instruction
If the White Christian nationalist movement has significantly galvanized parent, community, and larger‐scale political groups whose guiding ethos challenges teacher professional roles in shaping literacy curriculum and instruction, then how can literacy teachers and teacher educators better understand this movement, its interpretive orientation to biblical proof texting, and implications for literacy scholarship and education? We focus on the loc…
United for what and for whom? An analysis of White Christian nationalism in a 2023 school board election campaign
Public school board elections have become cultural battlegrounds as groups with opposing views on education, politics, religion, and social and cultural issues vie to shape public education, their communities, and the nation. To date, little research has examined White Christian nationalism as a political force shaping these elections. This paper analyzes the November 2023 State College Area School District (SCASD) school board election in a pola…
Receptivity toward Immigrants in Rural Pennsylvania
This article uses interview and questionnaire data to examine how adult English as a second language (ESL) providers in rural Pennsylvania perceive community receptivity toward immigrants and the factors they believe foster or hinder receptivity and immigrants' integration. ESL providers' depictions of local responses to immigrants ranged from welcoming to hostile. They identified four constellations of factors that influenced receptivity: nation…
Defining and Measuring Parenting for Educational Success
The Parent Education Profile (PEP) is an instrument used by family literacy programs to rate parents’ support for children’s literacy development. This article uses Critical Discourse Analysis to examine how the PEP constructs the ideal parent, the text’s underlying assumptions about parenting and education, and its ideological effects. The analysis shows how many features of the PEP evaluate parents according to a middle-class, predominantly Whi…
On the fly
Participation in adult education for community development
Participation has become so central to adult education for community development that even the World Bank supports participatory programming. This article analyses how participation is conceptualised in Training for Transformation (TfT), a Freirean-inspired curriculum used in international community development settings. TfT seeks to equip learners ‘to understand and take action in their world’, partly by shaping the curriculum itself. Using crit…
Interdistrict Transfers, Latino/White School Segregation, and Institutional Racism in a Small California Town
This article examines how the interdistrict transfer of White students from a majority-Latino school to a majority-White school increased school segregation in a small California town. The article argues that White parents' decisions to transfer their children, coupled with the sending school district's decision to allow the transfers, constituted institutional racism, as these practices further segregated Latino/a students in a high-poverty scho…
Aquí no somos unidos ’/‘We’re not united here’
Based on ethnographic, participatory research in two Salvadoran villages, this article analyzes how features of the sociocultural setting bred discord and mistrust among the participants in an adult literacy program and other community residents, thereby undermining the program’s goal of equipping campesinos to work together to improve their lives. The theoretical framework incorporates critical theories of adult education emphasizing communal le…
North Korean women entrepreneurs learning from failure
Taking initiative and constructing identity
Nearly one quarter of international graduate students in the USA and Canada are accompanied by their spouse, typically highly educated, professional women. Because they are not students, accompanying spouses’ distinctive needs and experiences are often invisible. This article focuses on an overlooked population of adult learners: accompanying spouses who enrol in English as a Second Language (ESL) courses. Qualitative data are used to explore the…
Salvadoran campesinos/as’ literacy practices and perceptions of the benefits of literacy
Cooperative Extension and Faith-Based Organizations
This article explores the historical relationship between Cooperative Extension and faith-based organizations. Using historical texts, the authors show that since the passage of the Smith-Lever Act in 1914, Cooperative Extension has worked with faith-based organizations, such as congregations, to promote community renewal. Extension and congregations--then and now--share a deep commitment to building community. The authors conclude that by rememb…
The Challenges of Fostering Community Participation
Community development professionals commonly espouse participatory ideals regarding citizens' involvement in planning and decision-making, hut enacting these ideals is another matter. This case study of a community-based organization (CBO) examines how staff members attempted to involve residents in planning and implementing projects and the challenges they faced in doing so. These challenges included achieving broad participation, especially wit…
Framing a Conflict in a Community-University Partnership
Tension and conflict are inherent in community-university partnerships, yet they can also lead to learning and growth. This article shows how four members of a partnership framed a dispute in rural California and examines how they resolved tacit, divergent expectations about communication, decision making, and authority. The dispute prompted a transition from informal to intentional decision making and helped members clarify their expectations of…
Interdistrict Transfers, Latino/White School Segregation, and Institutional Racism in a Small California Town
This article examines how the interdistrict transfer of White students from a majority-Latino school to a majority-White school increased school segregation in a small California town. The article argues that White parents' decisions to transfer their children, coupled with the sending school district's decision to allow the transfers, constituted institutional racism, as these practices further segregated Latino/a students in a high-poverty scho…
Aquí no somos unidos ’/‘We’re not united here’
Based on ethnographic, participatory research in two Salvadoran villages, this article analyzes how features of the sociocultural setting bred discord and mistrust among the participants in an adult literacy program and other community residents, thereby undermining the program’s goal of equipping campesinos to work together to improve their lives. The theoretical framework incorporates critical theories of adult education emphasizing communal le…
Unintended Outcomes in Second Life
Since its inception in 2003, the popularity of Second Life (SL), an online 3-D virtual environment, has increased exponentially. The global reach of SL and the opportunities it provides for cross-cultural exchange using multiple modes of communication in real and virtual worlds make it an ideal venue to examine cross-cultural engagement. Drawing on Cultural Historical Activity Theory and Heyward's model of intercultural literacy, this article ana…
Adult literacy education, gender equity and empowerment
Based on ethnographic research in rural El Salvador and drawing on New Literacy Studies (NLS) and gender and development (GAD) literature, this article examines how participation in a Freirean-inspired literacy programme fostered and/or limited women's and men's personal, interpersonal and collective empowerment. The findings reveal that participation planted seeds of agency and generated numerous psychosocial benefits such as enhanced self-estee…
Defining and Measuring Parenting for Educational Success
The Parent Education Profile (PEP) is an instrument used by family literacy programs to rate parents’ support for children’s literacy development. This article uses Critical Discourse Analysis to examine how the PEP constructs the ideal parent, the text’s underlying assumptions about parenting and education, and its ideological effects. The analysis shows how many features of the PEP evaluate parents according to a middle-class, predominantly Whi…
Examining interpersonal dynamics among adult learners through the lens of place
The purpose of this article is to analyze interpersonal problems among adult learners in three family literacy programs and to identify how these tensions were connected to place or distinctive community contexts. Drawing on the critical geography literature, the article argues that interpersonal problems must be understood in light of socio‐cultural and spatial factors such as the history of steel‐era industrial capitalism and immigrant settleme…
Salvadoran campesinos/as’ literacy practices and perceptions of the benefits of literacy
Participatory photography
Based on a case study of a participatory photography project with a Salvadoran adult literacy program, this article explores some of the challenges and risks that arise when people use cameras to document their lives. The article examines the unanticipated problems the author and participants encountered (i.e. suspicion, timidity, and ridicule), and elucidates how historical and sociocultural factors structured learners’ and community residents’ …
Participant leadership in adult basic education
This article examines the conflicts and challenges that student leaders in adult basic education and literacy programs experience in balancing their leadership responsibilities with academic endeavours. Based upon a case study of an adult basic education student leadership council in New York City, the article shows that leadership activities can both support and impede academic progress. The mediating factors were time requirements for implement…
Receptivity toward Immigrants in Rural Pennsylvania
This article uses interview and questionnaire data to examine how adult English as a second language (ESL) providers in rural Pennsylvania perceive community receptivity toward immigrants and the factors they believe foster or hinder receptivity and immigrants' integration. ESL providers' depictions of local responses to immigrants ranged from welcoming to hostile. They identified four constellations of factors that influenced receptivity: nation…
Learning and Envisioning under Climatic Uncertainty
Learning about and embracing change and uncertainty are essential for responding to climate change. Creativity, critical reflection, and cogenerative inquiry can enhance adaptive capacity, or the ability to anticipate, prepare for, and respond to adverse future impacts. However, precisely how learning about change and its driving forces occurs and how experiences are combined with envisioned yet indefinite prospects of the future are poorly under…
Participation in adult education for community development
Participation has become so central to adult education for community development that even the World Bank supports participatory programming. This article analyses how participation is conceptualised in Training for Transformation (TfT), a Freirean-inspired curriculum used in international community development settings. TfT seeks to equip learners ‘to understand and take action in their world’, partly by shaping the curriculum itself. Using crit…
Taking initiative and constructing identity
Nearly one quarter of international graduate students in the USA and Canada are accompanied by their spouse, typically highly educated, professional women. Because they are not students, accompanying spouses’ distinctive needs and experiences are often invisible. This article focuses on an overlooked population of adult learners: accompanying spouses who enrol in English as a Second Language (ESL) courses. Qualitative data are used to explore the…
On the fly
‘The video is an upgrade from them all’
In response to rising parental incarceration rates, some correctional facilities now offer family literacy and read-aloud programmes to strengthen parent–child bonds. However, the technologies used in these programmes – including older technologies such as audio and video recordings – have received little attention. Parents in the Read to Your Child/Grandchild (RYCG) programme at Pennsylvania state prisons are video recorded reading a book for th…
“You Can’t Win a Cold War with Hot Weapons”
During the early Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union used adult literacy education to wield influence in “Third World” countries. Frank C. Laubach, the “Apostle of Literacy,” wrote prolifically about adult literacy and conducted and advised literacy campaigns in more than 100 countries, yet his work is understudied in comparative and international education. Drawing on archival analysis of Laubach’s speeches and writings (1945–61), t…
‘Daddy made a mistake and needed a time out’
Although incarcerated individuals have committed potentially ‘immoral’ crimes, many are also parents, and need to foster their children’s moral development. As such, incarcerated parents occupy a paradoxical position: they are labelled as morally deviant yet simultaneously expected to provide moral guidance for their children. This study explores the concurrent rifts and junctures between incarceration, parenting, and morality by revealing how in…
White Christian Nationalism
The ascendance of White Christian nationalism has profound implications for democracy and public institutions in the United States, including public education. This article explains the core beliefs and features of White Christian nationalism as a contemporary religiopolitical movement that seeks to fuse Christianity with civic life; delineates how and why it matters for educational research; and identifies how education scholars might begin to a…
North Korean women entrepreneurs learning from failure
United for what and for whom? An analysis of White Christian nationalism in a 2023 school board election campaign
Public school board elections have become cultural battlegrounds as groups with opposing views on education, politics, religion, and social and cultural issues vie to shape public education, their communities, and the nation. To date, little research has examined White Christian nationalism as a political force shaping these elections. This paper analyzes the November 2023 State College Area School District (SCASD) school board election in a pola…
White Christian Nationalism, Biblical Proof Texting, and Literacy Curriculum and Instruction
If the White Christian nationalist movement has significantly galvanized parent, community, and larger‐scale political groups whose guiding ethos challenges teacher professional roles in shaping literacy curriculum and instruction, then how can literacy teachers and teacher educators better understand this movement, its interpretive orientation to biblical proof texting, and implications for literacy scholarship and education? We focus on the loc…
Literacy Before It Counts
Within dominant policy discourses, adults who score poorly on standardized assessments are often positioned as deficient or lacking because they do not conform to institutionally valued forms of reading and writing. Although these adults often use literacy in complex ways in their daily lives, these vernacular (everyday, out-of-school) literacies do not count. Drawing on New Literacy Studies, recognition theory, and scholarship examining literacy…
Political science (22 obras) · Sociology (19 obras) · Pedagogy (13 obras) · Literacy (12 obras) · Psychology (11 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Gender Studies (8 obras) · Politics (8 obras) · Public relations (8 obras) · Gender Studies (7 obras)