Navigating the Politics of the Science of Reading Mandates: U.S. and Australian Case Studies

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The symposium offers grounded, case-based descriptions of agency from responses to mandates stemming from the Science of Reading (SoR). The cases detail leading educators’ responses to the SoR in US states (South Carolina and California) and Australia. In hopes of spurring more informed engagements with these developments, the cases are discussed in relationship to agency and what can be learned from these first-hand accounts of the developments witnessed, experiences incurred, actions pursued, and lessons learned.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Research in Reading and Literacy

Chair

• Robert J. Tierney, University of British Columbia

Papers

• Becoming political - Diane Stephens, University of South Carolina

• Resisting Science of Reading (SoR)Legislative Policy in California. - Barbara M. Flores, California State University - San Bernardino

• Literacy curricula, teaching and teacher education in Science of Reading times: An Australian perspective - Katina Zammit, Western Sydney University

Discussant

• P. David Pearson, University of California - Berkeley