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Peter Smagorinsky

Researcher at University of Georgia

Publications -  153
Citations -  6690

Peter Smagorinsky is an academic researcher from University of Georgia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Teaching method & Teacher education. The author has an hindex of 41, co-authored 147 publications receiving 6334 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter Smagorinsky include University of Chicago & University of Oklahoma.

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Appropriating Tools for Teaching English: A Theoretical Framework for Research on Learning to Teach

TL;DR: In this article, activity theory provides a useful framework for studying teachers' professional development, emphasizing the importance of settings in learning to teach, focusing on the social and cultural factors that mediate development in particular contexts.
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Vygotskian Perspectives on Literacy Research: Constructing Meaning through Collaborative Inquiry

TL;DR: Lee and Smagorinsky as mentioned in this paper explored collective-individual development in a bilingual classroom and linked writing and community development through the children's forum Anne Haas Dyson and Beth Yeager.
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The method section as conceptual epicenter in constructing social science research reports

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that Method sections in social science research reports, particularly those that employ qualitative methods, often lack sufficient detail to make any results that follow from the analytic method trustworthy.
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Tensions in Learning to Teach Accommodation and the Development of a Teaching Identity

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze how a student teacher negotiated the different conceptions of teaching that provided the expectations for good instruction in her university and the site of her student teaching and how her effort to reconcile the different belief systems affected her identity as a teacher.
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If Meaning Is Constructed, What Is It Made From? Toward a Cultural Theory of Reading

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that meaning comes through a reader's generation of new texts in response to the text being read, and they focus on the ways in which reading takes place among readers and texts in a culturally mediated, codified experience characterized here as the transactional zone.