Co-Hosts for Voice of Literacy: Drs. Candace Kuby & Sarah Vander
Zanden Drs. Kuby and Vander Zanden began as co-hosts for Voice of
Literacy in the fall of 2014. They both share a passion for
literacy research and began their collaboration as graduate students.
Disseminating current literacy research to teachers, parents,
administrators, and policy makers as well as researchers will open up
dialogue and generate understanding from many perspectives. Dr.
Candace Kuby is an Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education at
the University of Missouri. Her scholarship focuses on: 1) critical,
inventive, hybrid, and multimodal literacies and 2) innovative
qualitative research methodologies. Candace is the author of Critical
literacy in the early childhood classroom: Unpacking histories,
unlearning privilege (2013) with Teachers College Press and co-editor
of Disrupting Qualitative Inquiry: Possibilities and Tensions in
Educational Research (2014) with Peter Lang. Journals in which her
scholarship appear include: International Journal for Qualitative
Studies in Education; Young Children; Journal of Early Childhood
Literacy; and Education, Citizenship, and Social Justice. Dr. Sarah
Vander Zanden is an Assistant Professor of Literacy Education at the
University of Northern Iowa. Her scholarship focuses on critical
literacy, multimodal discourse analysis, literacy teacher education,
and formative assessment. Sarah is the Director of the Reading Clinic
at UNI and has published articles in Language Arts, Journal of Early
Childhood Literacy, and Critical Literacies among others. Voice of
Literacy began in 2008 by Dr. Betsy Baker at the University of
Missouri. Watch the video to learn of her vision for starting Voice of
Literacy. Listen to bi-weekly podcasts of interviews with literacy
researchers as they discuss the implications of their research. Join
the online discussions of the podcasts. Create a dialog between
researchers, teachers, parents, principals, and policymakers. New
podcasts are posted on 1st and 3rd Mondays from September - April. In
collaboration with the editors of Reading Research Quarterly and the
Journal of Literacy Research, Drs. Kuby and Vander Zanden, asks
researchers to explain the following: - How did you get
interested in your topic? - How does your research help teachers?
- How does your research help parents? - How does your
research inform policymakers? You are invited to listen to the
podcasts and join online discussions in the following ways: -
Teachers can use them for professional "reading" and discussion groups
- Teachers can pass along pertinent podcasts to parents and
principals - Parents can use them to learn what research says
about supporting children's reading and writing development -
Policymakers can use them to find out policy implications from the
most current research - Journalists can use them to understand a
topic and report current research findings - Professors can use
them to introduce to students a topic and assigned readings -
Professors can play the podcasts during class or assign them for
homework - Professors can engage students in face-to-face
discussions, online discussions for their course (e.g., Blackboard),
or let students participate in the online discussions available on the
podcast web site - College students can use them to "get up to
speed" on current research in reading, writing, and literacy We
welcome your feedback. Email Dr. Kuby (kubyc@missouri.edu) or Dr.
Vander Zanden (sarah.vanderz@uni.edu) or leave a voice mail
(573-882-4831).