Papers by Sarah J . Donovan
Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teaching/Writing, 2024
Writing groups in teacher education typically focus on providing faculty, usually junior faculty,... more Writing groups in teacher education typically focus on providing faculty, usually junior faculty, with a supportive environment to share their work and to help one another create publishable manuscripts and/or improve teaching practices. Writing groups, however, are also about engaging in the act of writing in both personal and professional ways alongside others. In this collaborative autoethnography, we explored how we, three ELA teacher educators, made sense of ourselves the world around us through a writing group focused on writing as self-service and witness. We portray this exploration in the form of a collage that pieces together our writing, transcripts from the group conversations, and discussion notes. Across those collages, we found value in the opportunity to write in ways that served us at the time, even if that meant the writing was not in service to our students or institution. We also found value in having others witness our writing because it provided support, validation, and motivation. Implications provide permission and guidance for creating faculty writing groups focused on self-service and witness and recommendations for engaging in collaborative autoethnographic research within these groups to better understand how and why they work.
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Literacy Research and Practice, 2024
This phenomenological study explored five literacy academics' experiences with utilizing social m... more This phenomenological study explored five literacy academics' experiences with utilizing social media as scholarly practices and the factors that influenced their experiences over time through a participatory culture lens. The research questions investigated the experiences that contributed to their decisions to participate, in what ways, and on what platforms. Our interpretive phenomenological analysis surfaced six themes that have implications for digital scholarship and contextualized scholarly identities.
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Research in the teaching of English, Feb 1, 2024
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Action in teacher education, Mar 4, 2024
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The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado eBooks, Jun 10, 2024
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Writing and Pedagogy
In this reflective article, we draw upon Richardson’s (2002) advice for configuring words to view... more In this reflective article, we draw upon Richardson’s (2002) advice for configuring words to view the world through poetry, through an analysis of our own social and digital selves into and through the early days of COVID-19. Verselove is a month-long digital poetry challenge, a space to welcome teacher-writers from around the world to create, learn, and share. Through the common passion for poetry, Verselove is a space of new creative professional growth and inquiry through a poetic lens. Since we did not come to Verselove as a research project or with this framework in place, we share what Verselove is and then offer our theorizing about how we are coming to understand this poetic professional development project
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THE BEST LESSON SERIES: WRITING, 2018
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The Oklahoma English Journal, 2024
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English Journal
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Voices from the Middle
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English Journal
A former elementary teacher and a former high school teacher collaborated to envision a comprehen... more A former elementary teacher and a former high school teacher collaborated to envision a comprehensive approach to inclusive ELA instruction.
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English Education
In this qualitative study, the authors explore how preservice teachers select, read, and imagine ... more In this qualitative study, the authors explore how preservice teachers select, read, and imagine teaching representations of disability in young adult literature. Adding disability to the list of diversity categories can be problematic in that thinking about disability as a singular identity group ignores abling or disabling contexts and diversity within disability (Davis, 2011; Watson, 2002). However, findings indicate that preservice teachers may only see disability in the context of special education if representations of disability are not explicitly applied in English coursework using a disability studies lens (Dunn, 2014).
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English Education
To understand trends in what seems to be an explosion of books written about young adult literatu... more To understand trends in what seems to be an explosion of books written about young adult literature (YAL), the authors conducted a content analysis of scholarly books published between 2000 and 2020. The question What trends in YAL research and pedagogy do the books published in this span of time reflect? guided this inquiry to support English teacher educators in their engagement with YAL scholarship within and beyond teacher preparation. After examining 191 books, with the majority of them focusing on research and theory in YAL, findings emerged in five areas: critical events in society, shifts in public education, literacy movements, publishing trends, and scholarly community influence.
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Voices from the Middle
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English Journal
Sarah J. Donovan drew inspiration from an article published in English Journal in the early 2000s... more Sarah J. Donovan drew inspiration from an article published in English Journal in the early 2000s to teach middle schoolers to facilitate whole-group discussions.
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Voices from the Middle
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English Education, 2023
To understand trends in what seems to be an explosion of books written about young adult literatu... more To understand trends in what seems to be an explosion of books written about young adult literature (YAL), the authors conducted a content analysis of scholarly books published between 2000 and 2020. The question "What trends in YAL research and pedagogy do the books published in this span of time reflect?" guided this inquiry to support English teacher educators in their engagement with YAL scholarship within and beyond teacher preparation. After examining 191 books, with the
majority of them focusing on research and theory in YAL, findings emerged in five areas: critical events in society, shifts in public education, literacy movements, publishing trends, and scholarly community influence.
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Illinois Reading Council Journal
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Papers by Sarah J . Donovan
majority of them focusing on research and theory in YAL, findings emerged in five areas: critical events in society, shifts in public education, literacy movements, publishing trends, and scholarly community influence.
majority of them focusing on research and theory in YAL, findings emerged in five areas: critical events in society, shifts in public education, literacy movements, publishing trends, and scholarly community influence.