Area 6: Adolescent, College, and Adult Literacy Processes

Emily Sauls Pendergrass, Vanderbilt University

Adolescents' Diverse Meaning Making and the Limitations of "Comprehension" - Gay Ivey, UW Madison; Peter Johnston, University at Albany

Personal Transformations within a Knowledge Building Community of Eighth Grade Readers - Julie Smit, Texas Tech University

Reconceptualizing literacy engagement through Roland Barthes’ Jouissance: A microethnographic discourse analysis of Jouissance in a middle school language arts classroom - Robert Heggestad, The Ohio State University

Spoken Word Poetry and the Power of “I Am” in the Teacher Education Classoom - Shuaib James Meacham, University of Northern IowA; Susan Harden, University of North Carolina Charlotte