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The Daybook Defense: How Reflection Fosters the Identity Work of Readers and Writers
Author(s) -
Vetter Amy,
Myers Joy,
Reynolds Jeanie,
Stumb Adrienne,
Barrier Coley
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of adolescent and adult literacy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.73
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1936-2706
pISSN - 1081-3004
DOI - 10.1002/jaal.643
Subject(s) - reading (process) , identity (music) , literacy , set (abstract data type) , reflection (computer programming) , pedagogy , psychology , reflective writing , language arts , the arts , mathematics education , sociology , linguistics , visual arts , aesthetics , computer science , art , philosophy , programming language
Classrooms play a large part in shaping youths’ identities as readers and writers. Due to the pressures of high‐stakes exams, for example, reading and writing identities are often defined by a set of academic skills that students can or cannot perform. Such rigid concepts of readers and writers often cause secondary students to believe that their literacy abilities are fixed (i.e., as struggling readers). This study explores how reflective conversations through a daybook defense (an oral reflective assessment for a writer's notebook) opened opportunities for students to redefine what it meant to read and write in two English language arts classrooms. Findings suggest that reflections opened opportunities for students to articulate behaviors of reader/writer identities and express beliefs about reader/writer identities. Implications suggest that such reflective opportunities can provide spaces for students to rewrite reader/writer identities in the classroom.