1. Jane Braddock RDG 692 Spring 2013—Dr. Brown
Courtney Cazden
Jane Braddock
RDG 692
Spring 2013—Dr. Brown

2. A primary school teacher, she has also taught non-fiction writing for more than fifteen summers at the Bread Loaf School of English of Middlebury College in Vermont
Charles William Eliot Professor of Education Emerita at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, retired
She was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study at Stanford, and a Fulbright fellow in New Zealand. She is a Past President of the Council on Anthropology and Education and the American Society of Applied Linguistics.
A visiting professor in New Zealand (University of Waikato), visiting researcher in Singapore and in Australia
Courtney Cazden

3. An international specialist in child language and education, she is known professionally as a psychologist, educational anthropologist, and applied linguist.
In her teaching and research, she integrates these scholarly perspectives with her experience as a former primary school teacher.
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4. Her work has focused on the forms and functions of language(s) in classrooms and communities.
She moved the focus to drill and teacher lead “teaching” to realizing the importance of talk and peer discussion in the classroom.
Later in her career she continued her focus of classroom talking and listening to recognize whose voice is being heard and whose is not- equality.
Contributions

5. Classroom Discourse: The Language of Teaching and Learning
importance of student-teacher talk: the importance of oral as well as written communication skills examples of talk in K-12 classrooms - math as well as language arts
findings from teacher researchers as well as university researchers
factors to achieve greater equity in what students learn
Classroom Discourse: The Language of Teaching and Learning

6. Classroom Discourse: The Language of Teaching and Learning
More than Circle Time
Classroom Discourse: The Language of Teaching and Learning

7. How has Courtney Cazden contributed to the study of literacy?
Brought the importance of listening and talking to students in the classroom to the forefront of educational research.
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8. Questions con’t How did she engage in inquiry?
She studied teachers and students in the classrooms over a long period of time to prove her theory of the importance of discourse among students and teachers. She further took these ideas into the home to help parents and other important adults understand how important it is to talk and listen to children.
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9. How is their work applied in classroom practice and policy development?
She brought the classroom discourse idea to children everywhere. She gave students a voice, while showing it is as important to listen to them as to talk to them.
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10. Questions con’t What will her legacy be? Classroom Discourse
Bilingual proponent for Indigenous people of Australia and New Zealand.
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