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Literacy; sponsors; sponsors of literacy; high school English; classroom research
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Sponsorshaping: How A Teacher Used Sponsors Of Literacy For Pedagogical Purposes, Ryan Dippre
Sponsorshaping: How A Teacher Used Sponsors Of Literacy For Pedagogical Purposes, Ryan Dippre
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
Historically, the actions of classroom teachers have had a massive impact on the implementation of top-down reform efforts. However, a pedagogically-friendly construct for considering this impact has been lacking in studies of teacher practice. In this article, I draw on Deborah Brandt’s concept of sponsors of literacy to build a construct for thinking about teacher actions with, against, and through the social and historical forces that work their way into the classroom: sponsorshaping. Through a grounded theory analysis of six different types of documents used in an Advanced English 11 writing classroom, I show how sponsors of literacy were “shaped” …