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Leslie David Burns
Researcher at University of Kentucky
Publications - 15
Citations - 451
Leslie David Burns is an academic researcher from University of Kentucky. The author has contributed to research in topics: Literacy & Language arts. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 15 publications receiving 419 citations.
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Identity development and mentoring in doctoral education.
Leigh A. Hall,Leslie David Burns +1 more
TL;DR: Leigh Hall and Leslie Burns as discussed by the authors use theories of identity to understand mentoring relationships between faculty members and doctoral students who are being prepared as educational researchers, and they argue that faculty mentors must learn about and consider identity formation in order to successfully socialize more diverse groups of researchers.
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Middle- and High-School Content Area Teachers' Perceptions about Literacy Teaching and Learning.
TL;DR: For example, this article found that most content area teachers believed that literacy was integral to their content area and they viewed themselves as literacy teachers as well as content teachers, and teachers reported that content literacy professional development with coaching and collaboration supported teachers' efficacy with literacy teaching and their implementation of content literacy practices.
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The Metatheoretical Assumptions of Literacy Engagement: A Preliminary Centennial History
George G. Hruby,Leslie David Burns,Stergios Botzakis,Susan L. Groenke,Leigh A. Hall,Judson Laughter,Richard L. Allington +6 more
TL;DR: This article examined the historical succession of theoretical frameworks on students' active participation in their own literacy learning, and in particular the metatheoretical assumptions that justify those frameworks, and used motivation and engagement as focal topics by which to trace this history because of their conceptual proximity to active literacy participation.
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Literacy Reform and Common Core State Standards: Recycling the Autonomous Model
TL;DR: The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) as mentioned in this paper is a set of state standards for reading, writing, speaking/listening, and language that are based on an extremely limited range of scientific research.