Bronwyn T Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 5624627 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bronwyn T Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bronwyn T |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS B T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Louisville |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-9928-8959 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Creating a virtual space for collaborative project planning using the future creating workshop process
This article describes our use of an online Future Creating Workshop (FCW) as a planning strategy to support our Global Climate Change Education Initiative (GCCEI). The GCCEI is an Educational Action Research project designed to provide the opportunity for students to discover how climate change acts to affect weather, health, economy, politics, and culture in their own communities and around the world by bringing young people aged eleven to four…
Embodiment, place, and stance
In this article, we reflect on and examine the experiences of three doctoral students, and their thesis advisor, in discussing how we adjusted our research methods and assumptions to the new conditions of life and society that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic. We discuss how our understandings of the embodied presence of the researcher, the location of research and writing, and the affordances of digital technologies are becoming more prominen…
Ethics and Representation
Tactical globalization
Tactical globalization: learning from the Singapore experiment, by Aaron Koh, Bern, Peter Lang Publishers, 2010, 222 pp., £35.40 (paperback), ISBN 978-3-03910-591-5 As so often happens during times
Around the Block and Around the World
As the use of English spreads around the world, it is important to remember that there is not now just one English but multiple “world englishes.” Many scholars and teachers have argued that language changes to adapt to different cultural contexts. This world of rapid cross‐cultural communication is the world in which our students read and write. In fact, many students, through e‐mail, instant messaging, or online games, are already engaged in re…
Tomorrow Will Not be Like Today”
The speed with which the technologies of literacy are changing is dazzling and unsettling. Almost every year, it seems a new way of combining words, images, and video emerges and becomes a phenomenon among students. Meanwhile, teachers are left wondering how to respond to these new ways of writing and reading and the identities that students create through them. How should we teach in an age of electronic and global multiliteracies? What concepts…
Popular Culture and Representations of Literacy
Movies are filled with scenes of people of all ages, sexes, races, and social classes reading and writing in widely varied contexts and purposes. Yet these scenes go largely unnoticed, despite the fact that these images recreate and reinforce pervasive concepts and perceptions of literacy. This book addresses how everyday literacy practices are represented in popular culture, specifically in mainstream, widely-distributed contemporary movies. If …
Why Johnny Can Never, Ever Read
Alarms about a “literacy crisis” among young people have been sounded on a regular basis for more than a century. Yet as each generation of students matures, it is able to accomplish the reading and writing tasks necessary for society to continue. Perhaps then, rather than sounding more alarms, it is time to consider what anxieties, particularly economic anxieties, drive the perpetual literacy crisis. We should consider how these anxieties influe…
Trust, Betrayal, and Authorship
Emotional responses to plagiarism are rarely addressed in professional literature that focuses on ethics and good teaching practices. Yet, the emotions that are unleashed by cases of plagiarism, or suspicions of plagiarism, influence how we perceive our students and how we approach teaching them. Such responses have been complicated by online plagiarism‐detection services that emphasize surveillance and detection. My opposition to such plagiarism…
I'm Ready for My Close‐up Now
Electronic portfolios allow students to include video, images, hyperlinks, and audio, along with written texts, to create varied and comprehensive representations of what they have accomplished. Such collections of information also change the ways that teachers and students choose to present themselves and the ways that we read these presentations of self. As we learn more about how we read and respond to identities created by combinations of wor…
Action Heroes and Literate Sidekicks
The question is not whether literacy practices are present in contemporary popular culture—it is hard not to find a movie or program without some representation of literacy in it. The more important and useful question is, How do we in the audience interpret the literacy practices we find in popular culture? What do such representations tell us about how we think of the ways that reading and writing construct our public identities? In the classro…
Pay Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain
It is often believed that objective, rationalist, academic literacy leaves no room for issues of identity, and that anything remotely personal has, at best, a limited role to play in school. This belief reflects a clear and often widely accepted binary set of definitions: There is personal writing; there is academic writing. The two forms exist on their own, separate and identifiable. Issues of identity belong with personal writing but have no in…
Metamorphosis Hurts
In labeling students who seem unengaged or defiant in class as “resistant,” teachers may not always be imaginative or thorough enough in thinking about the reasons for this student stance. Though resistance may be a useful concept for such students because teachers see it as something that can be both active and passive, one problem with the label of “resistant student” is that it often implies a binary relationship with the teacher. Yet the root…
Girl Power in a Digital World
The power of culture to shape gender identities becomes particularly crucial for adolescents as they make the transition from child to adult. Yet as adults we offer little coherent, direct instruction in such matters. The author advocates supporting girls as they explore complex and empowering literacy practices, particularly online
Another Opening, Another Show
Teachers are constantly performing different identities at different moments, with different students, and for different ends. In turn, the roles students perform are in constant negotiation with their teacher's role. This column explores how literacy teachers consciously or unconsciously construct their identities and how students read these identities. What happens when teachers' identities shift in the classroom, in conference, or in commentin…
Standardized Students
The author questions whether literacy assessment is best undertaken in the form of standardized tests given to huge groups of students in high-stakes situations. There is a growing sense that the point of literacy education—of all education—is to administer standardized assessments and provide rankings rather than learning. However, concerns about increasing reliance on standardized testing in literacy education are about more than questionable m…
Taken on Faith
In exploring her uneasiness in dealing with issues of religion in her classroom, the author asks, “Should I guide students away from writing about issues that explicitly dealt with their faith? Should I impose an outright prohibition on such writing? Or should I find ways to engage with the issues and the perspectives that were so clearly important to these students?” This insightful and reflective essay highlights the connections between faith a…
Home and Away
For many students there are differences between the discourses they have learned in their families and communities and the discourses that dominate literacy education. Shaped by cultural forces such as class or ethnicity, some of these differences are significant while others may be subtler. If literacy is more than just decoding marks on a page, if it is shaped by culture and context, then the cultures and contexts we inhabit in our lives outsid…
Leading Double Lives
The author acknowledges that there is often a gap in how and for what ends technology is used—a gap between some students and their teachers and a gap among different groups of students. What is less obvious is the nature of these gaps in terms of literacy practices. He then asks, “Could we be missing ways to connect with our students and help reinforce and enlarge their literate identities?”
The Truth in the Tale
Are We Having Fun Yet? Students, Social Class, and the Pleasures of Literacy
Games People Play
Casina is one of Plautus' most metatheatrical comedies. Self-reflexive role-play, plays within plays, explicit references to theatrical context or convention are usual in Plautine drama. In Casina they constitute much or most of the dramatic action. During the prologue the audience is encouraged to sit back and enjoy the games (23ff.); whereas by Act 5 it is the play's women who have come out ‘to watch the wedding games out here on the street’ ( …
Reading Tacitus' Tiberian Annals
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. Henry James, Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne History is not what you thought. It is what you can remember . W.C. Sellar & R.G. Yeatman, 1066 And All That As history Tacitus' Annals pose problems. On the one hand meticulously researched — on the other obfuscatory; self-avowedly unprejudiced and conspicuously prejudicial; evocative more than discursive; necessarily reliant upon the flawed…
Reading Tacitus' Tiberian Annals
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. Henry James, Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne History is not what you thought. It is what you can remember . W.C. Sellar & R.G. Yeatman, 1066 And All That As history Tacitus' Annals pose problems. On the one hand meticulously researched — on the other obfuscatory; self-avowedly unprejudiced and conspicuously prejudicial; evocative more than discursive; necessarily reliant upon the flawed…
Reading Tacitus' Tiberian Annals
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. Henry James, Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne History is not what you thought. It is what you can remember . W.C. Sellar & R.G. Yeatman, 1066 And All That As history Tacitus' Annals pose problems. On the one hand meticulously researched — on the other obfuscatory; self-avowedly unprejudiced and conspicuously prejudicial; evocative more than discursive; necessarily reliant upon the flawed…
Games People Play
Casina is one of Plautus' most metatheatrical comedies. Self-reflexive role-play, plays within plays, explicit references to theatrical context or convention are usual in Plautine drama. In Casina they constitute much or most of the dramatic action. During the prologue the audience is encouraged to sit back and enjoy the games (23ff.); whereas by Act 5 it is the play's women who have come out ‘to watch the wedding games out here on the street’ ( …
The Truth in the Tale
Are We Having Fun Yet? Students, Social Class, and the Pleasures of Literacy
Standardized Students
The author questions whether literacy assessment is best undertaken in the form of standardized tests given to huge groups of students in high-stakes situations. There is a growing sense that the point of literacy education—of all education—is to administer standardized assessments and provide rankings rather than learning. However, concerns about increasing reliance on standardized testing in literacy education are about more than questionable m…
Taken on Faith
In exploring her uneasiness in dealing with issues of religion in her classroom, the author asks, “Should I guide students away from writing about issues that explicitly dealt with their faith? Should I impose an outright prohibition on such writing? Or should I find ways to engage with the issues and the perspectives that were so clearly important to these students?” This insightful and reflective essay highlights the connections between faith a…
Home and Away
For many students there are differences between the discourses they have learned in their families and communities and the discourses that dominate literacy education. Shaped by cultural forces such as class or ethnicity, some of these differences are significant while others may be subtler. If literacy is more than just decoding marks on a page, if it is shaped by culture and context, then the cultures and contexts we inhabit in our lives outsid…
Leading Double Lives
The author acknowledges that there is often a gap in how and for what ends technology is used—a gap between some students and their teachers and a gap among different groups of students. What is less obvious is the nature of these gaps in terms of literacy practices. He then asks, “Could we be missing ways to connect with our students and help reinforce and enlarge their literate identities?”
Pay Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain
It is often believed that objective, rationalist, academic literacy leaves no room for issues of identity, and that anything remotely personal has, at best, a limited role to play in school. This belief reflects a clear and often widely accepted binary set of definitions: There is personal writing; there is academic writing. The two forms exist on their own, separate and identifiable. Issues of identity belong with personal writing but have no in…
Metamorphosis Hurts
In labeling students who seem unengaged or defiant in class as “resistant,” teachers may not always be imaginative or thorough enough in thinking about the reasons for this student stance. Though resistance may be a useful concept for such students because teachers see it as something that can be both active and passive, one problem with the label of “resistant student” is that it often implies a binary relationship with the teacher. Yet the root…
Girl Power in a Digital World
The power of culture to shape gender identities becomes particularly crucial for adolescents as they make the transition from child to adult. Yet as adults we offer little coherent, direct instruction in such matters. The author advocates supporting girls as they explore complex and empowering literacy practices, particularly online
Another Opening, Another Show
Teachers are constantly performing different identities at different moments, with different students, and for different ends. In turn, the roles students perform are in constant negotiation with their teacher's role. This column explores how literacy teachers consciously or unconsciously construct their identities and how students read these identities. What happens when teachers' identities shift in the classroom, in conference, or in commentin…
Popular Culture and Representations of Literacy
Movies are filled with scenes of people of all ages, sexes, races, and social classes reading and writing in widely varied contexts and purposes. Yet these scenes go largely unnoticed, despite the fact that these images recreate and reinforce pervasive concepts and perceptions of literacy. This book addresses how everyday literacy practices are represented in popular culture, specifically in mainstream, widely-distributed contemporary movies. If …
Why Johnny Can Never, Ever Read
Alarms about a “literacy crisis” among young people have been sounded on a regular basis for more than a century. Yet as each generation of students matures, it is able to accomplish the reading and writing tasks necessary for society to continue. Perhaps then, rather than sounding more alarms, it is time to consider what anxieties, particularly economic anxieties, drive the perpetual literacy crisis. We should consider how these anxieties influe…
Trust, Betrayal, and Authorship
Emotional responses to plagiarism are rarely addressed in professional literature that focuses on ethics and good teaching practices. Yet, the emotions that are unleashed by cases of plagiarism, or suspicions of plagiarism, influence how we perceive our students and how we approach teaching them. Such responses have been complicated by online plagiarism‐detection services that emphasize surveillance and detection. My opposition to such plagiarism…
I'm Ready for My Close‐up Now
Electronic portfolios allow students to include video, images, hyperlinks, and audio, along with written texts, to create varied and comprehensive representations of what they have accomplished. Such collections of information also change the ways that teachers and students choose to present themselves and the ways that we read these presentations of self. As we learn more about how we read and respond to identities created by combinations of wor…
Action Heroes and Literate Sidekicks
The question is not whether literacy practices are present in contemporary popular culture—it is hard not to find a movie or program without some representation of literacy in it. The more important and useful question is, How do we in the audience interpret the literacy practices we find in popular culture? What do such representations tell us about how we think of the ways that reading and writing construct our public identities? In the classro…
Around the Block and Around the World
As the use of English spreads around the world, it is important to remember that there is not now just one English but multiple “world englishes.” Many scholars and teachers have argued that language changes to adapt to different cultural contexts. This world of rapid cross‐cultural communication is the world in which our students read and write. In fact, many students, through e‐mail, instant messaging, or online games, are already engaged in re…
Tomorrow Will Not be Like Today”
The speed with which the technologies of literacy are changing is dazzling and unsettling. Almost every year, it seems a new way of combining words, images, and video emerges and becomes a phenomenon among students. Meanwhile, teachers are left wondering how to respond to these new ways of writing and reading and the identities that students create through them. How should we teach in an age of electronic and global multiliteracies? What concepts…
Tactical globalization
Tactical globalization: learning from the Singapore experiment, by Aaron Koh, Bern, Peter Lang Publishers, 2010, 222 pp., £35.40 (paperback), ISBN 978-3-03910-591-5 As so often happens during times
Ethics and Representation
Embodiment, place, and stance
In this article, we reflect on and examine the experiences of three doctoral students, and their thesis advisor, in discussing how we adjusted our research methods and assumptions to the new conditions of life and society that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic. We discuss how our understandings of the embodied presence of the researcher, the location of research and writing, and the affordances of digital technologies are becoming more prominen…
Creating a virtual space for collaborative project planning using the future creating workshop process
This article describes our use of an online Future Creating Workshop (FCW) as a planning strategy to support our Global Climate Change Education Initiative (GCCEI). The GCCEI is an Educational Action Research project designed to provide the opportunity for students to discover how climate change acts to affect weather, health, economy, politics, and culture in their own communities and around the world by bringing young people aged eleven to four…
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