Research

I have focused my research in several related areas of language and literacy education. My professional activities are an attempt to conceptualize research, teaching, and community service as connected endeavors. First, I have investigated the everyday forms of broader educational knowledge that adult community members practice in the context of teaching young children and mentoring preservice teachers in an urban after-school literacy program. Second, I have continued to examine the influence of corporate technologies and discourses on social and educational life in America. This work has lead me to examine the commodification of reading practices among the general reading public (i.e., book clubs), as well as the corporate production and authorization of school literacy curricula through a range of technology-based venues. My most recent work examines the influence of state-based curriculum standards on the teaching of literature in public high schools.