Professor
Department of Language and Literacy Education (LLED)
Dr. Tierney’s scholarship has focused upon literacy education, teacher education, cross-national education, educational assessment and equity. His engagements include issues related to the nature of meaning-making especially tied to literacy research and development and extended to technology and media. His recent projects have ranged from teacher development and assessment projects in China schools to addressing matters of equity and indigenous developments in Australia to studies of scholarly tradition.
Contributions:
Past volumes of the Handbook of Reading Research, the Handbook of Research on Teaching the Language Arts, Theoretical Issues and Models in Reading, the Handbook of Research in Reading Comprehension have included chapters.
Some significant scholarly contributions in selected areas: the nature and teaching of reading comprehension, how reading and writing work together to enhance thinking, literacy assessment principles and practices, global developments in education and research, educational reform and equity.
Keywords:
Literacy; Global developments; Research; Evaluation; Societies and cultures.
rob.tierney@ubc.ca
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