Defying Convention, Inventing the Future in Literary Research and Practice: Essays in Tribute to Ken and Yetta Goodman

Ken and Yetta Goodman are renowned and revered worldwide for their pioneering, influential work in the field of reading/literacy education. In this volume major literacy scholars from around the world pay tribute to their work and offer glimpses of what the future of literacy research and practice might be. The book is structured around several themes related to research, practice, and theories of reading and literacy processes that characterize the Goodmans’ scholarship. Each chapter reveals how the author’s scholarship connects to one or both of the Goodmans’ work and projects that connection to the future – what are the implications for future research, theory, practice, and/or assessment? This milestone volume marking the hugely significant work of the Goodmans will be welcomed across the field of literacy education. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Foreword......Page 8 Preface: The Landscape of Invention and Convention......Page 11 Acknowledgments......Page 17 1 The Goodman Legacy: Forty Years of Literacy Research, Pedagogy and Profundity......Page 20 2 Towards a Sociopsychoneuro-linguistic Model of Reading......Page 36 3 All Language Understanding is a Psycholinguistic Guessing Game......Page 56 4 The Goodman/Smith Hypothesis, the Input Hypothesis, the Comprehension Hypothesis, and the (Even Stronger) Case for Free Voluntary Reading......Page 65 5 23 Notes in Search of Growing Up An Author—Or Not......Page 80 6 Reading and Reigning: Theories of Learning to Read as Political Objects......Page 95 7 Coffee Cups, Frogs, and Lived Experience......Page 115 8 From Learning as Habit-Formation to Learning as Meaning-Making: How Harry Pope Changed My (Professional) Life......Page 135 9 Creating Curriculum......Page 145 10 Is “Coaching” a Dangerous Metaphor for Teaching and Reading Teacher Education?......Page 155 11 Learning from Young Bilingual Children’s Explorations of Language and Literacy at Home......Page 163 12 The Sociopsychogenesis of Literacy and Biliteracy: How Goodman’s Transactional Theory of Reading Proficiency Impacts Biliteracy Development and Pedagogy......Page 179 13 Knowing and Doing Well in the Creation and Interpretation of Reading Assessments: Towards Epistemic Responsibility......Page 192 14 Miscue Analysis as a Tool for Advancing Literacy Policy and Practice......Page 207 15 Perspectives on Assessment: Reflections on and Directions from Goodman......Page 223 16 We’ve Always Considered Our Work Political......Page 233 17 An Endangered Species Act for Literacy Education......Page 247 18 Essay Review......Page 264 Contributors......Page 278 Index......Page 283 In this volume, major literacy scholars from around the world pay tribute to Ken and Yetta Goodman ' renowned and revered worldwide for their pioneering, influential work in the field of reading/literacy education ' and offer glimpses of what the future of literacy research and practice might be