Sarah Michaels
Biographic Data
| ID | 5245877 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Michaels |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Michaels |
| SIGNATURE | MICHAELS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nebraska–Lincoln |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0281-5003 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 119 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Remembering Courtney Cazden, 1925–2025
Here we remember and honor Courtney B. Cazden (1925–2025), whose scholarship, mentorship, and moral clarity profoundly shaped the study of language, literacy, and learning. Drawing on our shared experiences as colleagues, collaborators, students, and friends, we reflect on Courtney's enduring contributions to classroom discourse analysis, bilingual and Indigenous education, sociocultural theories of learning, and the pedagogy of multiliteracies. …
Design, implementation, and evaluation of dialogic classroom talk in early childhood education
The aims of the present study were to design and implement an intervention focused on dialogic classroom talk in early childhood education and to evaluate what it may contribute to children's oral communicative competence. Together with four teachers we developed and implemented an ecologically valid intervention that supports teachers to use several dialogic talk moves. We evaluated our intervention using a one-group pretest-posttest design. Dis…
The link between student‐perceived teacher talk and student enjoyment, anxiety and discursive engagement in the classroom
This study seeks to understand the emotional connection of teachers' academically productive talk (APT) with student learning from the students' perspective. Using a sample of 2,225 students ( N 7th grade = 1,146 and N 8th grade = 1,079) from 16 middle schools in a city of China, we investigate the relationship between students' perceptions of their teachers’ APT, student emotions (enjoyment and anxiety) and their discursive engagement with other…
Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Vector-Host Contact (VHC) Ratios and Ecological Niche Modeling of the West Nile Virus Mosquito Vector, Culex quinquefasciatus, in the City of New Orleans, LA, USA
The consistent sporadic transmission of West Nile Virus (WNV) in the city of New Orleans justifies the need for distribution risk maps highlighting human risk of mosquito bites. We modeled the influence of biophysical and socioeconomic metrics on the spatio-temporal distributions of presence/vector-host contact (VHC) ratios of WNV vector, Culex quinquefasciatus , within their flight range . Biophysical and socioeconomic data were extracted within…
Conceptualizing Talk Moves as Tools
The Importance of Conversational Discourse Strategies in the Acquisition of Literacy
Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1980), pp. 142-156
Establishing Conversational Cooperation
Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1981), pp. 178-191
Trust and Intention to Comply with a Water Allocation Decision
Hamm, J. A., L. M. PytlikZillig, M. N. Herian, A. J. Tomkins, H. Dietrich, and S. Michaels. 2013. Trust and intention to comply with a water allocation decision: the moderating roles of knowledge and consistency. Ecology and Society 18(4): 49. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05849-180449
The evolution of elite framing following enactment of legislation
Importing Notions of Governance
As stress on water resources increases from growing human demands and a changing climate, recognition of the need to develop effective strategies for water governance is expanding. Consequently, it is timely to consider the legacy of effective instances of water policy innovation that have been highly influential in water resource management in Canada. We present two historical examples of policy transfer – that is, when policy employed in one ju…
Matching knowledge brokering strategies to environmental policy problems and settings
Addressing Water Policy in the New Administration
Deliberative Discourse Idealized and Realized
When Is Dialogue ‘Dialogic’
Commentaries| September 21 2007 When Is Dialogue 'Dialogic'? Subject Area: Psychiatry and Psychology , Women's and Children's Health Catherine O'Connor; Catherine O'Connor aBoston University, Boston, Mass., and Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Sarah Michaels Sarah Michaels bClark University, Worcester, Mass., USA Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Human Development (2…
Considering Knowledge Uptake within a Cycle of Transforming Data, Information, and Knowledge
Knowledge uptake, having decision makers assimilate the ideas of experts, is recognized as an important stimulus to bringing about policy change. This is particularly true in the realm of environmental policymaking, which is characterized by knowledge intensity, complexity, and multifaceted concerns. Using examples from an innovative watershed management organization, this article presents a heuristic for understanding how knowledge uptake occurs…
Can the Intellectual Affordances of Working-Class Storytelling Be Leveraged in School
Participatory Research on Collaborative Environmental Management
In seeking to trace linkages among groups involved with environmental management in New York State's Adirondack Park, we developed a participatory exercise and employed it at a recent Adirondack research conference. Fourteen organizations took part, collectively representing 72 linkages associated with policies and programs, expertise, information dissemination, and physical facilities. The exercise revealed a dense hub-and-spoke pattern of inter…
Exogenous and indigenous influences on sustainable management
The Resource Management Act, the cornerstone of New Zealand's legislated environmental policy, reflects the mediation of internationally debated constructs of sustainable development and profoundly local meanings of living within nature. The outcome is a made-in-New Zealand approach to conceptualizing sustainable management in national environmental policy. This paper demonstrates how and why the contribution of non-New Zealanders and the first p…
Motivations for ecostewardship partnerships
Configuring Who Does What in Watershed Management
The goal of the Massachusetts Watershed Initiative (MWI) is to use a watershed approach to restore and maintain the integrity of state waters. The MWI is presented as an effort to bring about the convergence of the agendas of government, the informed public, and the general public. In the planning phase of the MWI's pilot project in the Neponset River Watershed, government and the informed public successfully struggled to create a joint basin‐wid…
Discovering and Analysing Earthquake Issue Networks in British Columbia and Washington State
Issue Networks and Activism
Using an investigation of a technical policy issue, this paper demonstrates the utility of employing an issue networks approach to understanding the dynamics among those concerned about the threat of earthquakes to the province of British Columbia, Canada and the state of Washington, United States. Such an approach focuses on issue emergence in the early stages of agenda building. This research demonstrates how scientific and technical expertise,…
Text and context
This paper argues for and illustrates an approach to the study of writing that integrates ethnographic analysis of classroom interaction with linguistic analysis of written texts and teacher/student conversational exchanges. Such an approach sheds light both on the writing that gets done in a classroom and on the broader institutional constraints that influence teachers' and students' expectations and behavior. The approach is illustrated through…
Committee Reports
A Study of Sharing Time With First Grade Students
Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1979), pp. 647-660
Matching knowledge brokering strategies to environmental policy problems and settings
Deliberative Discourse Idealized and Realized
The evolution of elite framing following enactment of legislation
Motivations for ecostewardship partnerships
Text and context
This paper argues for and illustrates an approach to the study of writing that integrates ethnographic analysis of classroom interaction with linguistic analysis of written texts and teacher/student conversational exchanges. Such an approach sheds light both on the writing that gets done in a classroom and on the broader institutional constraints that influence teachers' and students' expectations and behavior. The approach is illustrated through…
The link between student‐perceived teacher talk and student enjoyment, anxiety and discursive engagement in the classroom
This study seeks to understand the emotional connection of teachers' academically productive talk (APT) with student learning from the students' perspective. Using a sample of 2,225 students ( N 7th grade = 1,146 and N 8th grade = 1,079) from 16 middle schools in a city of China, we investigate the relationship between students' perceptions of their teachers’ APT, student emotions (enjoyment and anxiety) and their discursive engagement with other…
Issue Networks and Activism
Using an investigation of a technical policy issue, this paper demonstrates the utility of employing an issue networks approach to understanding the dynamics among those concerned about the threat of earthquakes to the province of British Columbia, Canada and the state of Washington, United States. Such an approach focuses on issue emergence in the early stages of agenda building. This research demonstrates how scientific and technical expertise,…
Trust and Intention to Comply with a Water Allocation Decision
Hamm, J. A., L. M. PytlikZillig, M. N. Herian, A. J. Tomkins, H. Dietrich, and S. Michaels. 2013. Trust and intention to comply with a water allocation decision: the moderating roles of knowledge and consistency. Ecology and Society 18(4): 49. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05849-180449
Considering Knowledge Uptake within a Cycle of Transforming Data, Information, and Knowledge
Knowledge uptake, having decision makers assimilate the ideas of experts, is recognized as an important stimulus to bringing about policy change. This is particularly true in the realm of environmental policymaking, which is characterized by knowledge intensity, complexity, and multifaceted concerns. Using examples from an innovative watershed management organization, this article presents a heuristic for understanding how knowledge uptake occurs…
Configuring Who Does What in Watershed Management
The goal of the Massachusetts Watershed Initiative (MWI) is to use a watershed approach to restore and maintain the integrity of state waters. The MWI is presented as an effort to bring about the convergence of the agendas of government, the informed public, and the general public. In the planning phase of the MWI's pilot project in the Neponset River Watershed, government and the informed public successfully struggled to create a joint basin‐wid…
A Study of Sharing Time With First Grade Students
Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1979), pp. 647-660
Committee Reports
Text and context
This paper argues for and illustrates an approach to the study of writing that integrates ethnographic analysis of classroom interaction with linguistic analysis of written texts and teacher/student conversational exchanges. Such an approach sheds light both on the writing that gets done in a classroom and on the broader institutional constraints that influence teachers' and students' expectations and behavior. The approach is illustrated through…
Issue Networks and Activism
Using an investigation of a technical policy issue, this paper demonstrates the utility of employing an issue networks approach to understanding the dynamics among those concerned about the threat of earthquakes to the province of British Columbia, Canada and the state of Washington, United States. Such an approach focuses on issue emergence in the early stages of agenda building. This research demonstrates how scientific and technical expertise,…
Discovering and Analysing Earthquake Issue Networks in British Columbia and Washington State
Exogenous and indigenous influences on sustainable management
The Resource Management Act, the cornerstone of New Zealand's legislated environmental policy, reflects the mediation of internationally debated constructs of sustainable development and profoundly local meanings of living within nature. The outcome is a made-in-New Zealand approach to conceptualizing sustainable management in national environmental policy. This paper demonstrates how and why the contribution of non-New Zealanders and the first p…
Motivations for ecostewardship partnerships
Configuring Who Does What in Watershed Management
The goal of the Massachusetts Watershed Initiative (MWI) is to use a watershed approach to restore and maintain the integrity of state waters. The MWI is presented as an effort to bring about the convergence of the agendas of government, the informed public, and the general public. In the planning phase of the MWI's pilot project in the Neponset River Watershed, government and the informed public successfully struggled to create a joint basin‐wid…
Participatory Research on Collaborative Environmental Management
In seeking to trace linkages among groups involved with environmental management in New York State's Adirondack Park, we developed a participatory exercise and employed it at a recent Adirondack research conference. Fourteen organizations took part, collectively representing 72 linkages associated with policies and programs, expertise, information dissemination, and physical facilities. The exercise revealed a dense hub-and-spoke pattern of inter…
Can the Intellectual Affordances of Working-Class Storytelling Be Leveraged in School
Considering Knowledge Uptake within a Cycle of Transforming Data, Information, and Knowledge
Knowledge uptake, having decision makers assimilate the ideas of experts, is recognized as an important stimulus to bringing about policy change. This is particularly true in the realm of environmental policymaking, which is characterized by knowledge intensity, complexity, and multifaceted concerns. Using examples from an innovative watershed management organization, this article presents a heuristic for understanding how knowledge uptake occurs…
When Is Dialogue ‘Dialogic’
Commentaries| September 21 2007 When Is Dialogue 'Dialogic'? Subject Area: Psychiatry and Psychology , Women's and Children's Health Catherine O'Connor; Catherine O'Connor aBoston University, Boston, Mass., and Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Sarah Michaels Sarah Michaels bClark University, Worcester, Mass., USA Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Human Development (2…
Addressing Water Policy in the New Administration
Deliberative Discourse Idealized and Realized
Matching knowledge brokering strategies to environmental policy problems and settings
Importing Notions of Governance
As stress on water resources increases from growing human demands and a changing climate, recognition of the need to develop effective strategies for water governance is expanding. Consequently, it is timely to consider the legacy of effective instances of water policy innovation that have been highly influential in water resource management in Canada. We present two historical examples of policy transfer – that is, when policy employed in one ju…
The evolution of elite framing following enactment of legislation
Trust and Intention to Comply with a Water Allocation Decision
Hamm, J. A., L. M. PytlikZillig, M. N. Herian, A. J. Tomkins, H. Dietrich, and S. Michaels. 2013. Trust and intention to comply with a water allocation decision: the moderating roles of knowledge and consistency. Ecology and Society 18(4): 49. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05849-180449
The Importance of Conversational Discourse Strategies in the Acquisition of Literacy
Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1980), pp. 142-156
Establishing Conversational Cooperation
Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1981), pp. 178-191
Conceptualizing Talk Moves as Tools
Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Vector-Host Contact (VHC) Ratios and Ecological Niche Modeling of the West Nile Virus Mosquito Vector, Culex quinquefasciatus, in the City of New Orleans, LA, USA
The consistent sporadic transmission of West Nile Virus (WNV) in the city of New Orleans justifies the need for distribution risk maps highlighting human risk of mosquito bites. We modeled the influence of biophysical and socioeconomic metrics on the spatio-temporal distributions of presence/vector-host contact (VHC) ratios of WNV vector, Culex quinquefasciatus , within their flight range . Biophysical and socioeconomic data were extracted within…
The link between student‐perceived teacher talk and student enjoyment, anxiety and discursive engagement in the classroom
This study seeks to understand the emotional connection of teachers' academically productive talk (APT) with student learning from the students' perspective. Using a sample of 2,225 students ( N 7th grade = 1,146 and N 8th grade = 1,079) from 16 middle schools in a city of China, we investigate the relationship between students' perceptions of their teachers’ APT, student emotions (enjoyment and anxiety) and their discursive engagement with other…
Design, implementation, and evaluation of dialogic classroom talk in early childhood education
The aims of the present study were to design and implement an intervention focused on dialogic classroom talk in early childhood education and to evaluate what it may contribute to children's oral communicative competence. Together with four teachers we developed and implemented an ecologically valid intervention that supports teachers to use several dialogic talk moves. We evaluated our intervention using a one-group pretest-posttest design. Dis…
Remembering Courtney Cazden, 1925–2025
Here we remember and honor Courtney B. Cazden (1925–2025), whose scholarship, mentorship, and moral clarity profoundly shaped the study of language, literacy, and learning. Drawing on our shared experiences as colleagues, collaborators, students, and friends, we reflect on Courtney's enduring contributions to classroom discourse analysis, bilingual and Indigenous education, sociocultural theories of learning, and the pedagogy of multiliteracies. …
Sociology (15 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Pedagogy (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Mathematics education (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Environmental resource management (5 works)