Abstract of

Situated Identities: Power and Positioning in the Work of a Literacy Coach

Kristin N. Rainville

Stephanie Jones

A literacy coach's work is about far more than a knowledge base in how teaching and learning works in literacy classrooms. It is also about deep understandings of situational enactments and how one's position will impact what happens in a particular context. This article has significant implications for the preparation and ongoing professional development opportunities for literacy coaches that includes work around issues of power and positioning and begins to support coaches in learning to “read” situations to help them to be responsive in the way they position themselves.

Abstract from Rainville, K.N., & Jones, S. (2008, March). Situated Identities: Power and Positioning in the Work of a Literacy Coach. The Reading Teacher, 61(6), 440–448. doi: 10.1598/RT.61.6.1