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James R. King, Ed.D.

James R. King’s, Ed.D., research interests include early and emergent literacies, digital and media literacies, text analysis, history of literacy, historical approaches to research, qualitative inquiry, queer theory in educational contexts.

His current projects include an examination of early literacy policy in post-apartheid South Africa; the impact of visual literacies on instruction in composing processes; and the effects of online conversion in a reading master's program.

Selected Publications

King, Schneider, & Burger (in press). Second-order discourse synthesis: How learners comprehend and reconstruct information from digital, multimodal texts. Handbook of Digital Literacies.

King, Stahl, Armstrong, & Dyer. (in press). Reading on the other side of campus: Introducing the entext in career technical education. Community College Review.

Burger, Schneider, & King (in press). Polysyncretic composing in play: 
Youth gaming for critical computational literacies in STEM. English Teaching: Practice and Critique.

Knight, Robinson, & King (in press). Teacher quality in transition: The dialectics of teacher certification and pedagogical competence. Teachers and Teaching (UK)

 

Contact Info

Professor Emeritus
jking9@usf.edu