Taking Up the Challenges and Opportunities of Public Scholarship: Literacy Scholars Engaging With Communities

Session Type: Working Group Roundtable

Abstract

Six scholars, committed to public engagement’s guiding principles, will convene the working group. These scholars define their scholarly and pedagogical investments as public scholarship. Working group members will explore opportunities/barriers to public scholarship while they describe how their approaches of engaging with communities reveal innovation and complication. These scholars work within broadly defined literacy areas with cross-cutting themes that reflect learning and teaching in school and community classrooms, teachers who are students and students who enact teaching, in settings both local and global. Binding these presentations together is a shared critical examination of the challenges and opportunities of public scholarship.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 5: Social Context of Research on Schools and Communities

Chair

• Carolyn A. Colvin, University of Iowa

Papers

• Challenges of Public Scholarship With Teacher Candidates - Meghan E. Barnes, University of Georgia - Athens

• Community Engagement Through Argument Writing in Rural Schools - Keri R Franklin, Missouri State University

• The Reciprocity Dilemma in Publicly Engaged Fieldwork - Kate E Kedley, University of Iowa

• Literacy Teaching and Publicly Engaged Scholarship in Urban Communities - Valerie Kinloch, The Ohio State University

• Listening to Urban Middle Schoolers as Public Scholarship: Literacy Mentorships, Tensions, and Values - Abigail Rombalski, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

• Challenges and Opportunities in Envisioning Civic Imaginaries as Public Scholarship - Vaughn W.M. Watson, Teachers College, Columbia University