Stephanie Abraham
Biographic Data
| ID | 3701246 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephanie Abraham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Abraham |
| SIGNATURE | ABRAHAM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rowan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5096-4148 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Playful Translingual Assemblages in a Community Language Mapping Workshop
Background: Situated in urban Philadelphia, Autores Fuertes was part of a network of nonprofit community writing centers that provided a free afterschool writing academy for children ages 7 to 17. With a full-time lead educator and assistant educator, alongside several volunteer community educators, this center promoted itself as a “bilingual” site. Most of the enrolled children had family connections to Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvad…
Relocating the linguistic repertoire
This inquiry into the location of the linguistic repertoire was driven by a pedagogical encounter with mounting putty, the white adhesive used to attach materials to another surface. This encounter began at a community writing center during a writing workshop I was teaching on poesía bilingüe when children took up the putty, creating objects that became poetry. I wondered whose linguistic repertoire these words and things had come from and to who…
Paradigmatic fronteras
In this article, I explore the paradigmatic boundaries between New Literacy Studies, translanguaging, and posthuman thought around language and literacy. This enquiry began with a recent encounter with emergent bilingual children in a community-based writing programme which caused me to ‘rethink’ some of my humanistic groundings and assumptions about literacy(ies) and turn to posthuman thinking to address its affective workings. Notably, I wanted…
Creating a translanguaging space in a bilingual community-based writing program
We, as multilingual teacher-scholars, had lingering questions about what community programs were doing, operating outside of school contexts, to maintain the bilingualism of racialized, Latinx children in Philadelphia and to resist the monolingual ideologies circulating in US society. To answer those questions, we partnered with a bilingual, community-based writing center serving the Latinx community in Philadelphia to offer a set of workshops in…
What Counting Words Has Really Taught Us
For the past two decades, a claim of a word gap between the vocabulary sizes of poor children and their wealthier peers has inundated educational policy. In this article, I use critical discourse analysis to show how the word gap theory is a dangerous, but useful, discourse that continues to be produced as a scientific explanation for the cause of poverty and that closing the word gap will be the ultimate remedy for poor people. The word gap is a…
Crafting a pedagogical third space in a transnational teacher education project
Counter engagement
This study is a critical discourse analysis of the New Jersey Opt-Out Movement. In 2015, and in response to the increasing standardization of US public school instruction, and over-use of high-stakes testing, NJ parents began to refuse to allow their children to take a key end-of-the year exam, the PARCC. We employ the concepts of master and counter narratives to exam the qualitative data that was collected in an online-questionnaire, a focus gro…
A critical discourse analysis of Gisela's family story
In this paper, I use critical discourse analysis to analyze a student's narrative about the arrest, incarceration, and deportation of her mother to Mexico. The student, Gisela, was a fifth grader in my classroom during the 2008/2009 school year, and I encouraged the students to collect family stories from their relatives. Gisela created this story, and she wrote and illustrated this with the help of her father, student peers, and me. I draw on Gl…
Crafting a pedagogical third space in a transnational teacher education project
Counter engagement
This study is a critical discourse analysis of the New Jersey Opt-Out Movement. In 2015, and in response to the increasing standardization of US public school instruction, and over-use of high-stakes testing, NJ parents began to refuse to allow their children to take a key end-of-the year exam, the PARCC. We employ the concepts of master and counter narratives to exam the qualitative data that was collected in an online-questionnaire, a focus gro…
A critical discourse analysis of Gisela's family story
In this paper, I use critical discourse analysis to analyze a student's narrative about the arrest, incarceration, and deportation of her mother to Mexico. The student, Gisela, was a fifth grader in my classroom during the 2008/2009 school year, and I encouraged the students to collect family stories from their relatives. Gisela created this story, and she wrote and illustrated this with the help of her father, student peers, and me. I draw on Gl…
Counter engagement
This study is a critical discourse analysis of the New Jersey Opt-Out Movement. In 2015, and in response to the increasing standardization of US public school instruction, and over-use of high-stakes testing, NJ parents began to refuse to allow their children to take a key end-of-the year exam, the PARCC. We employ the concepts of master and counter narratives to exam the qualitative data that was collected in an online-questionnaire, a focus gro…
What Counting Words Has Really Taught Us
For the past two decades, a claim of a word gap between the vocabulary sizes of poor children and their wealthier peers has inundated educational policy. In this article, I use critical discourse analysis to show how the word gap theory is a dangerous, but useful, discourse that continues to be produced as a scientific explanation for the cause of poverty and that closing the word gap will be the ultimate remedy for poor people. The word gap is a…
Crafting a pedagogical third space in a transnational teacher education project
Creating a translanguaging space in a bilingual community-based writing program
We, as multilingual teacher-scholars, had lingering questions about what community programs were doing, operating outside of school contexts, to maintain the bilingualism of racialized, Latinx children in Philadelphia and to resist the monolingual ideologies circulating in US society. To answer those questions, we partnered with a bilingual, community-based writing center serving the Latinx community in Philadelphia to offer a set of workshops in…
Paradigmatic fronteras
In this article, I explore the paradigmatic boundaries between New Literacy Studies, translanguaging, and posthuman thought around language and literacy. This enquiry began with a recent encounter with emergent bilingual children in a community-based writing programme which caused me to ‘rethink’ some of my humanistic groundings and assumptions about literacy(ies) and turn to posthuman thinking to address its affective workings. Notably, I wanted…
Playful Translingual Assemblages in a Community Language Mapping Workshop
Background: Situated in urban Philadelphia, Autores Fuertes was part of a network of nonprofit community writing centers that provided a free afterschool writing academy for children ages 7 to 17. With a full-time lead educator and assistant educator, alongside several volunteer community educators, this center promoted itself as a “bilingual” site. Most of the enrolled children had family connections to Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvad…
Relocating the linguistic repertoire
This inquiry into the location of the linguistic repertoire was driven by a pedagogical encounter with mounting putty, the white adhesive used to attach materials to another surface. This encounter began at a community writing center during a writing workshop I was teaching on poesía bilingüe when children took up the putty, creating objects that became poetry. I wondered whose linguistic repertoire these words and things had come from and to who…
Sociology (8 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (7 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literacy (3 works) · Critical literacy (2 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (2 works)