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Grad Students and Faculty in Children's Literacy Panel at Berkeley


Children's Literacy Panel .
Pictured from left to right: Caitlin Ryan, Karin Hooks, Shawn Casey and Harvey J. Graff.
On July 11, Dr. Harvey Graff chaired a roundtable discussion with graduate students from the Department of English and LiteracyStudies@OSU at the Society for the History of Children and Youth Biennial Conference at the University of California, Berkeley. The roundtable addressed the conference theme, Children and Youth at Risk and Taking Risks: Historical Inquiries in International Perspective, by exploring "children at risk for literacy or illiteracy." Karin Hooks and Shawn Casey from the English Department and Caitlin Ryan for Education: Teaching and Learning all presented research-in-progress.

Graff opened the discussion with an overview of how LiteracyStudies@OSU provides a productive environment for interdisciplinary research and education, including children's literacy. Casey addressed the risks and pressures entwining literacy and childhood in 18th-century Scotland; Hooks explored how twentieth-century Appalachian women writers' texts complicate the discussion about childhood and literacy; and Ryan shared data from her year-long, multi-site ethnography of literacy practices of elementary-aged children from lesbian-headed families. The Berkley setting and lively interdisciplinary audience provided for a critical and comparative discussion of literacy's changing and sometimes risky place in the history of children.
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