Deborah Hicks
Biographic Data
| ID | 3638745 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah Hicks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah |
| FAMILY NAME | Hicks |
| SIGNATURE | HICKS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cincinnati |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Labor Histories
Class Readings
Cultural Hauntings
This narrative study chronicles the history of an ethnographic and pedagogical project focused on fourth-grade girls growing up in a working-poor, predominately White community. Central to the project were questions about how language practices are situated in the textures of girls' lives and become refracted dimensions of voice and identity. The article focuses on the layered meanings of horror fictions. It explores links between girls' fascinat…
Back to Oz? Rethinking the Literary in a Critical Study of Reading1
Drawing on data gathered during a fourteen-month study of reading practices among poor and working-class girls, this essay explores the challenges of creating a responsive and critical reading pedagogy across boundaries of class. Set largely in a summer and after-school reading program for pre-teen girls, the study addressed the question of how a pedagogy centered around literature might accord the possibility for girls to read, speak, and value …
Growing Up Girl in Working-Poor America
This article explores the psychosocial histories of three girls growing up in an urban neighborhood with historical ties to rural Appalachia. The article adopts a discursive lens for understanding class-specific identities in the life histories of these young subjects. Central to the analyses that shape the paper are close studies of language. At the same time, it situates the study of discourse and subjectivity within the textures of landscape a…
Haunted Landscapes and Girlhood Imaginations
(2003). Haunted Landscapes and Girlhood Imaginations: The power of horror fictions for marginalised readers 1. Changing English: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 45-57
Self and Other in Bakhtin's Early Philosophical Essays
(2000). Self and Other in Bakhtin's Early Philosophical Essays: Prelude to a Theory of Prose Consciousness. Mind, Culture, and Activity: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 227-242
Working through Discourse Genres in School
Explores possible benefits of placing considerations of genre as more central to dialogs and debates about language arts education. Aims for a theoretical framework emphasizing the responsive and agentive engagement of students working through disciplinary literacies. Considers ways in which one first-grade teacher helped a non-middle-class learner to engage more deeply with science discourse genres
Learning as a Prosaic Act
The role of discourse as a social semiotic mediator of knowledge construction has in recent years become an important topic in the fields of psychology and education. Along with the writings of L.S. Vygotsky on relations between thinking and speech, the work of Mikhail Bakhtin has become critical to current theorizing about the mediational role of social discourses. Bakhtin's writings on the discourse of the novel have become particularly importa…
Individual and Social Meanings in the Classroom
This article explores narrative discourse in the classroom as individual and social meaning construction. Drawing largely on the work of Bakhtin—in particular, his theory of consciousness as a dialogic "boundary phenomenon"—the article positions classroom narrative discourses as co-constructions of meaning. The primary goal of the article is methodological in that it articulates how one might go about studying narratives as neither "inside" the i…
The voices within narratives
In recent years we've come to understand how fully even young speakers acquire more than grammar, learning, in addition, how language is used variously across different registers and genres. However, young speakers are learning more than the rules of baby talk or story telling. They are discovering that naturally occurring speech is a rich mix of voices and forms, where the moves between perspectives and kinds of text convey meaning as certainly …
On the need for a coordinated response
Class Readings
Growing Up Girl in Working-Poor America
This article explores the psychosocial histories of three girls growing up in an urban neighborhood with historical ties to rural Appalachia. The article adopts a discursive lens for understanding class-specific identities in the life histories of these young subjects. Central to the analyses that shape the paper are close studies of language. At the same time, it situates the study of discourse and subjectivity within the textures of landscape a…
The voices within narratives
In recent years we've come to understand how fully even young speakers acquire more than grammar, learning, in addition, how language is used variously across different registers and genres. However, young speakers are learning more than the rules of baby talk or story telling. They are discovering that naturally occurring speech is a rich mix of voices and forms, where the moves between perspectives and kinds of text convey meaning as certainly …
Cultural Hauntings
This narrative study chronicles the history of an ethnographic and pedagogical project focused on fourth-grade girls growing up in a working-poor, predominately White community. Central to the project were questions about how language practices are situated in the textures of girls' lives and become refracted dimensions of voice and identity. The article focuses on the layered meanings of horror fictions. It explores links between girls' fascinat…
On the need for a coordinated response
The voices within narratives
In recent years we've come to understand how fully even young speakers acquire more than grammar, learning, in addition, how language is used variously across different registers and genres. However, young speakers are learning more than the rules of baby talk or story telling. They are discovering that naturally occurring speech is a rich mix of voices and forms, where the moves between perspectives and kinds of text convey meaning as certainly …
Individual and Social Meanings in the Classroom
This article explores narrative discourse in the classroom as individual and social meaning construction. Drawing largely on the work of Bakhtin—in particular, his theory of consciousness as a dialogic "boundary phenomenon"—the article positions classroom narrative discourses as co-constructions of meaning. The primary goal of the article is methodological in that it articulates how one might go about studying narratives as neither "inside" the i…
Learning as a Prosaic Act
The role of discourse as a social semiotic mediator of knowledge construction has in recent years become an important topic in the fields of psychology and education. Along with the writings of L.S. Vygotsky on relations between thinking and speech, the work of Mikhail Bakhtin has become critical to current theorizing about the mediational role of social discourses. Bakhtin's writings on the discourse of the novel have become particularly importa…
Working through Discourse Genres in School
Explores possible benefits of placing considerations of genre as more central to dialogs and debates about language arts education. Aims for a theoretical framework emphasizing the responsive and agentive engagement of students working through disciplinary literacies. Considers ways in which one first-grade teacher helped a non-middle-class learner to engage more deeply with science discourse genres
Self and Other in Bakhtin's Early Philosophical Essays
(2000). Self and Other in Bakhtin's Early Philosophical Essays: Prelude to a Theory of Prose Consciousness. Mind, Culture, and Activity: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 227-242
Haunted Landscapes and Girlhood Imaginations
(2003). Haunted Landscapes and Girlhood Imaginations: The power of horror fictions for marginalised readers 1. Changing English: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 45-57
Back to Oz? Rethinking the Literary in a Critical Study of Reading1
Drawing on data gathered during a fourteen-month study of reading practices among poor and working-class girls, this essay explores the challenges of creating a responsive and critical reading pedagogy across boundaries of class. Set largely in a summer and after-school reading program for pre-teen girls, the study addressed the question of how a pedagogy centered around literature might accord the possibility for girls to read, speak, and value …
Growing Up Girl in Working-Poor America
This article explores the psychosocial histories of three girls growing up in an urban neighborhood with historical ties to rural Appalachia. The article adopts a discursive lens for understanding class-specific identities in the life histories of these young subjects. Central to the analyses that shape the paper are close studies of language. At the same time, it situates the study of discourse and subjectivity within the textures of landscape a…
Labor Histories
Class Readings
Cultural Hauntings
This narrative study chronicles the history of an ethnographic and pedagogical project focused on fourth-grade girls growing up in a working-poor, predominately White community. Central to the project were questions about how language practices are situated in the textures of girls' lives and become refracted dimensions of voice and identity. The article focuses on the layered meanings of horror fictions. It explores links between girls' fascinat…
Sociology (9 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)