Dennis S Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3983474 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dennis S Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dennis S |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Carolina State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2114-2860 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Making thinking visible: Metacognitive teacher talk in small-group reading instruction for upper elementary multilingual learners
This study examined how elementary teachers’ metacognitive scaffolding during small-group reading instruction varied across literacy domains and students’ initial proficiency. Drawing on the multidimensional Metacognitive Support Framework, we analyzed 33 lessons from nine teachers implementing the same structured reading comprehension intervention for Grades 3 to 5 multilingual learners. Teacher talk was coded across metacognitive knowledge, met…
International Literacy Association's Timothy and Cynthia Shanahan Outstanding Dissertation Award
My dissertation started with a question from practice that almost any adult who works with a young writer will hear– “I'm done!” I wanted to understand which students stop writing early and what might help them persist through a challenging task like writing. I examined this within the context of a 15-min writing assessment of 4th and 5th grade students. I focused on informational writing, in which students first read an article about a scientifi…
Feasibility of the Knowledge, Language, and Inquiry (K.L.I.) intervention for multilingual English learners
This study evaluated the feasibility of the Knowledge, Language, and Inquiry (K.L.I.) intervention, designed to support Grades 3–5 multilingual students classified as English learners (ML-ELs) in building content knowledge, language skills, and reading comprehension through inquiry-based small-group instruction. Feasibility was examined across five dimensions—acceptability, practicality, integration, implementation fidelity, and effectiveness—usi…
Toward an equitable implementation of the science of reading: K-5 teachers' sensemaking and support needs
This study investigates how elementary teachers conceptualize and navigate equitable implementation of the Science of Reading (SoR) amid U.S. state-mandated reforms. Drawing on open-ended survey responses ( n = 275) and interviews ( n = 14), we examine teachers' understanding of equity, multilevel barriers and enablers across individual, school, and system contexts, and support needs for responsive instruction. Findings reveal equitable SoR imple…
Elementary School Teachers’ Enactment of a Content Literacy Curriculum in a Virtual Tutoring Program for Multilingual Students
This study evaluated the usability of a content literacy curriculum designed for graduate students’ practicum experience in a virtual after-school tutoring program for U.S. third-grade multilingual students during the COVID-19 pandemic. We explored teacher perceptions of the successes and challenges encountered while implementing the curriculum. This study involved 12 elementary school teachers enrolled in a graduate school professional developme…
Getting KnErdi with Language: Examining Teachers’ Knowledge for Enhancing Reading Development in Code‐Based and Meaning‐Based Domains
Much of the early research on teachers’ knowledge for reading instruction used instruments that primarily emphasized code‐based aspects of reading, unintentionally signaling that meaning‐focused knowledge is not essential for teaching foundational reading to elementary‐age children. In this study, we developed the Knowledge for Enhancing Reading Development Inventory (KnERDI; pronounced 'nerdy'), an instrument that measures teachers’ knowledge in…
What Future for Constitutional Democracy in South Africa
South Africa embraced constitutional democracy in 1994 following the collapse of the Apartheid regime. The constitution that was finally passed in 1996 promised the development of a social democratic society. Within two decades, much of the promise contained in its constitutional instrument had been hollowed out. This paper considers the manner in which the ruling party, the African National Congress, embraced a project termed State Capture in wh…
Rents, Power and Governance in Global Value Chains
This paper addresses the generation of rents and the distribution of gains in the global operations of governed Global Value Chains (GVCs) and seeks to provide an architecture for analyzing the governance of GVCs. It distinguishes between four sets of rent—gifts of nature; innovation rents; exogenously defined rents; and market power—and three spheres of governance—setting the rules -“legislative governance”; implementing the rules -“executive go…
Keeping up and forging ahead: English language outcomes of proficient bilingual adolescents in the United States
Making Sense of Science Texts: A Mixed‐Methods Examination of Predictors and Processes of Multiple‐Text Comprehension
Previous research has identified various factors that contribute to readers’ comprehension of expository texts, including strategy expertise, language proficiency, prior knowledge, and more recently, readers’ beliefs about knowledge. This study addresses the need to understand the relative contributions of these predictors to readers’ comprehension of multiple texts and the processes used by readers to make sense of texts. Eighty‐three students (…
Practices and Commitments of Test-centric Literacy Instruction: Lessons From a Testing Transition
enThis link goes to a English sectionzhThis link goes to a Chinese sectionesThis link goes to a Spanish sectionarThis link goes to a Arabic sectionruThis link goes to a Russian sectionfrThis link goes to a French section
Internalization and Participation as Metaphors of Strategic Reading Development
Many studies of comprehension strategies instruction rely on an internalization metaphor of strategy learning. In this view, strategies eventually enter students' heads after repeated interactions with teachers who introduce strategies and control how they are used. In this article, the author discusses the limitations of the internalization view and proposes an alternative model of strategy learning. It is argued that learning to read strategica…
Transformation: The Constitutional Promise and Reality
The Constitution promised a form of social democracy built upon a transformed legal system. While transformation cannot be equated with revolution and hence the complete eradication of existing legal norms and concepts, the constitutional text promised the development of the existing legal system into a body of law which would, as coherently as possible, reflect the core values of the Constitution. This article examines the law of contract, socio…
Legal Realism, Transformation and the Legacy of Dugard
John Dugard's courageous inaugural lecture drew on American realism, modern natural law and South Africa's liberal tradition to argue that judges might better serve the ends of justice if they recognised their creative role, and replaced their subconscious prejudices and preferences with liberal values of the common law. This turn to legal realism to understand South Africa law was a significant intellectual development. However, its implications…
John Dugard’s Legacy to Human Rights Activism and Litigation
The first day of the conference was dedicated to John Dugard's work and legacy in human rights law in South Africa. This day addressed John's extensive academic contributions, as well as his more practical and strategic interventions in relation to human rights advocacy and litigation. One of the highlights of the day was a panel of past and present human rights lawyers and advocates, all of whom had had been influenced and inspired by John both …
Private Law After 1994: Progressive Development or Schizoid Confusion
The Constitution sets out to answer that question in the negative. It conferred significant powers and responsibilities upon courts to interrogate and, if necessary, alter both common and customary law in order to promote the foundational values contained in the Bill of Rights. That power or obligation to develop the common law is to be found in ss 8 and 39(2) of the Constitution, clauses which can be termed the development clauses of the Constit…
Le citoyen, le pouvoir et le droit administratif
Citizen, Power and Administrative Law. The traditional distinction between public and private spheres is now less certain and more debatable than ever before. Globalisation and the development of private bodies with greater resources than many national governments require that we undertake the search for a better balance. This development is being taken into account in the new Constitutional era which has dawned in South Africa following the 1994…
Democracy and Integrity: Making Sense of the Constitution
(1998). Democracy and Integrity: Making Sense of the Constitution. South African Journal on Human Rights: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 127-145
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Cases and Comments
The Application of the 1996 Constitution in the Private Sphere
‘Lawyers have pictured law as reason encoded in the doings and dreams of power just as economists have seen actual market economies and their law as approximations to a pure system of rationality and reciprocity. They have sung for their supper by singing in their chains. Hope and insight may nevertheless succeed where indignation and history worship failed, and draw the lawyers and economists into the work of giving eyes and wings to the institu…
The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1993, Act 108 of 1996
"The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1993, Act 108 of 1996." South African Journal on Human Rights, 13(1), pp. 1–2
Cases and Comments
The Twist of Language and the Two Fagans: Please Sir May I have Some More Literalism
(1996). The Twist of Language and the Two Fagans: Please Sir May I have Some More Literalism! South African Journal on Human Rights: Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 504-512
The Last Laugh: Du Plessis v De Klerk, Classical Liberalism, Creole Liberalism and the Application of Fundamental Rights under the Interim and the Final Constitutions
(1996). The Last Laugh: Du Plessis v De Klerk, Classical Liberalism, Creole Liberalism and the Application of Fundamental Rights under the Interim and the Final Constitutions. South African Journal on Human Rights: Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 361-404
Rents, Power and Governance in Global Value Chains
This paper addresses the generation of rents and the distribution of gains in the global operations of governed Global Value Chains (GVCs) and seeks to provide an architecture for analyzing the governance of GVCs. It distinguishes between four sets of rent—gifts of nature; innovation rents; exogenously defined rents; and market power—and three spheres of governance—setting the rules -“legislative governance”; implementing the rules -“executive go…
Making Sense of Science Texts: A Mixed‐Methods Examination of Predictors and Processes of Multiple‐Text Comprehension
Previous research has identified various factors that contribute to readers’ comprehension of expository texts, including strategy expertise, language proficiency, prior knowledge, and more recently, readers’ beliefs about knowledge. This study addresses the need to understand the relative contributions of these predictors to readers’ comprehension of multiple texts and the processes used by readers to make sense of texts. Eighty‐three students (…
Keeping up and forging ahead: English language outcomes of proficient bilingual adolescents in the United States
Practices and Commitments of Test-centric Literacy Instruction: Lessons From a Testing Transition
enThis link goes to a English sectionzhThis link goes to a Chinese sectionesThis link goes to a Spanish sectionarThis link goes to a Arabic sectionruThis link goes to a Russian sectionfrThis link goes to a French section
Cases and Comments
The Application of the 1996 Constitution in the Private Sphere
‘Lawyers have pictured law as reason encoded in the doings and dreams of power just as economists have seen actual market economies and their law as approximations to a pure system of rationality and reciprocity. They have sung for their supper by singing in their chains. Hope and insight may nevertheless succeed where indignation and history worship failed, and draw the lawyers and economists into the work of giving eyes and wings to the institu…
The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1993, Act 108 of 1996
"The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1993, Act 108 of 1996." South African Journal on Human Rights, 13(1), pp. 1–2
The Twist of Language and the Two Fagans: Please Sir May I have Some More Literalism
(1996). The Twist of Language and the Two Fagans: Please Sir May I have Some More Literalism! South African Journal on Human Rights: Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 504-512
The Last Laugh: Du Plessis v De Klerk, Classical Liberalism, Creole Liberalism and the Application of Fundamental Rights under the Interim and the Final Constitutions
(1996). The Last Laugh: Du Plessis v De Klerk, Classical Liberalism, Creole Liberalism and the Application of Fundamental Rights under the Interim and the Final Constitutions. South African Journal on Human Rights: Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 361-404
Political strategies and the state: Some Historical Observations
In the study of social movements of the oppressed, there often exists for the Left historian and political actor an inclination to avoid thorny questions of strategy and tactics. Definite strategic decisions may be naturalised as the only possible response to a particular situation or set of 'structural predeterminations'. They may be idealised as rational modes of action which make sense in the context of their application. They may be ignored i…
Culture, Society and the Media
Examines the power of the media and the divisions between the liberal pluralist and the Marxist approaches to the analysis of the nature of the media
Political strategies and the state: Some Historical Observations
In the study of social movements of the oppressed, there often exists for the Left historian and political actor an inclination to avoid thorny questions of strategy and tactics. Definite strategic decisions may be naturalised as the only possible response to a particular situation or set of 'structural predeterminations'. They may be idealised as rational modes of action which make sense in the context of their application. They may be ignored i…
Cases and Comments
A Long March: Administrative Law in the Appellate Division
(1988). A Long March: Administrative Law in the Appellate Division. South African Journal on Human Rights: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 281-302
Cases and Comments
Democracy — Its Influence upon the Process of Constitutional Interpretation
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Cases and Comments
The Twist of Language and the Two Fagans: Please Sir May I have Some More Literalism
(1996). The Twist of Language and the Two Fagans: Please Sir May I have Some More Literalism! South African Journal on Human Rights: Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 504-512
The Last Laugh: Du Plessis v De Klerk, Classical Liberalism, Creole Liberalism and the Application of Fundamental Rights under the Interim and the Final Constitutions
(1996). The Last Laugh: Du Plessis v De Klerk, Classical Liberalism, Creole Liberalism and the Application of Fundamental Rights under the Interim and the Final Constitutions. South African Journal on Human Rights: Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 361-404
Replies
Cases and Comments
The Application of the 1996 Constitution in the Private Sphere
‘Lawyers have pictured law as reason encoded in the doings and dreams of power just as economists have seen actual market economies and their law as approximations to a pure system of rationality and reciprocity. They have sung for their supper by singing in their chains. Hope and insight may nevertheless succeed where indignation and history worship failed, and draw the lawyers and economists into the work of giving eyes and wings to the institu…
The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1993, Act 108 of 1996
"The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1993, Act 108 of 1996." South African Journal on Human Rights, 13(1), pp. 1–2
Le citoyen, le pouvoir et le droit administratif
Citizen, Power and Administrative Law. The traditional distinction between public and private spheres is now less certain and more debatable than ever before. Globalisation and the development of private bodies with greater resources than many national governments require that we undertake the search for a better balance. This development is being taken into account in the new Constitutional era which has dawned in South Africa following the 1994…
Democracy and Integrity: Making Sense of the Constitution
(1998). Democracy and Integrity: Making Sense of the Constitution. South African Journal on Human Rights: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 127-145
Private Law After 1994: Progressive Development or Schizoid Confusion
The Constitution sets out to answer that question in the negative. It conferred significant powers and responsibilities upon courts to interrogate and, if necessary, alter both common and customary law in order to promote the foundational values contained in the Bill of Rights. That power or obligation to develop the common law is to be found in ss 8 and 39(2) of the Constitution, clauses which can be termed the development clauses of the Constit…
Transformation: The Constitutional Promise and Reality
The Constitution promised a form of social democracy built upon a transformed legal system. While transformation cannot be equated with revolution and hence the complete eradication of existing legal norms and concepts, the constitutional text promised the development of the existing legal system into a body of law which would, as coherently as possible, reflect the core values of the Constitution. This article examines the law of contract, socio…
Legal Realism, Transformation and the Legacy of Dugard
John Dugard's courageous inaugural lecture drew on American realism, modern natural law and South Africa's liberal tradition to argue that judges might better serve the ends of justice if they recognised their creative role, and replaced their subconscious prejudices and preferences with liberal values of the common law. This turn to legal realism to understand South Africa law was a significant intellectual development. However, its implications…
John Dugard’s Legacy to Human Rights Activism and Litigation
The first day of the conference was dedicated to John Dugard's work and legacy in human rights law in South Africa. This day addressed John's extensive academic contributions, as well as his more practical and strategic interventions in relation to human rights advocacy and litigation. One of the highlights of the day was a panel of past and present human rights lawyers and advocates, all of whom had had been influenced and inspired by John both …
Internalization and Participation as Metaphors of Strategic Reading Development
Many studies of comprehension strategies instruction rely on an internalization metaphor of strategy learning. In this view, strategies eventually enter students' heads after repeated interactions with teachers who introduce strategies and control how they are used. In this article, the author discusses the limitations of the internalization view and proposes an alternative model of strategy learning. It is argued that learning to read strategica…
Practices and Commitments of Test-centric Literacy Instruction: Lessons From a Testing Transition
enThis link goes to a English sectionzhThis link goes to a Chinese sectionesThis link goes to a Spanish sectionarThis link goes to a Arabic sectionruThis link goes to a Russian sectionfrThis link goes to a French section
Keeping up and forging ahead: English language outcomes of proficient bilingual adolescents in the United States
Making Sense of Science Texts: A Mixed‐Methods Examination of Predictors and Processes of Multiple‐Text Comprehension
Previous research has identified various factors that contribute to readers’ comprehension of expository texts, including strategy expertise, language proficiency, prior knowledge, and more recently, readers’ beliefs about knowledge. This study addresses the need to understand the relative contributions of these predictors to readers’ comprehension of multiple texts and the processes used by readers to make sense of texts. Eighty‐three students (…
Rents, Power and Governance in Global Value Chains
This paper addresses the generation of rents and the distribution of gains in the global operations of governed Global Value Chains (GVCs) and seeks to provide an architecture for analyzing the governance of GVCs. It distinguishes between four sets of rent—gifts of nature; innovation rents; exogenously defined rents; and market power—and three spheres of governance—setting the rules -“legislative governance”; implementing the rules -“executive go…
Political science (22 works) · Law (19 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Legal Issues in South Africa (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (7 works)