Article
Situated Identities: Power and Positioning in the Work of a Literacy Coach
The Reading Teacher
(2008)
Abstract
A literacy coach's work is about far more than a knowledge base in how teaching and learning works in literacy classrooms. It is also about deep understandings of situational enactments and how one's position will impact what happens in a particular context. This article has significant implications for the preparation and ongoing professional development opportunities for literacy coaches that includes work around issues of power and positioning and begins to support coaches in learning to “read” situations to help them to be responsive in the way they position themselves.
Keywords
- Literacy,
- Literacy coach
Publication Date
March, 2008
DOI
10.1598/RT.61.6.1
Citation Information
Kristin N. Rainville and Stephanie Jones. "Situated Identities: Power and Positioning in the Work of a Literacy Coach" The Reading Teacher Vol. 61 Iss. 6 (2008) p. 440 - 448 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kristin-rainville/5/