Restrictive Circulations: Global Flows of Narrow Literacy Discourses and Instructional Practices

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Abstract

As scholars working in England, Australia, Canada, and the United States, our goal is to name, describe, and analyze a recent wave of reading reform. We draw on a transliteracies framework (Stornaiuolo, Smith, & Phillips, 2017) to make sense of how mobilities are managed within and across transglobal systems and how power/privilege operate through transglobal flows of information and activity. Drawing on parallel analyses of reading reforms in four countries, we problematize the circulation of Science of Reading discourses that have grained international traction despite heavy critique from international reading scholars and claims that a single solution – increased attention to phonics and phonemic awareness - is the universal solution to reading difficulties.

Authors

• Catherine F. Compton-Lilly, University of South Carolina

• Carolyn Clarke, St. Francis Xavier University

• Kerryn Dixon, University of Nottingham

• Annette Woods, Queensland University of Technology