Autor: Tamara Collins-Parks Lasisi Ajayi

Dr Lasisi Ajayi is the Coordinator of the Graduate Reading/Language Arts program in the Department Teacher Education and Foundations at California State University, San Bernardino. Dr Ajayi has written extensively in the areas of English language arts instruction, multimodal/new media literacies, literacy teacher preparation, and innovative approaches in literacy instruction. His work has been published in prestigious professional and academic journals, including such as Journal of Literacy Research, Teacher Education Quarterly, Asia Pacific Journal of Education, The Teacher Educator, TESOL Quarterly, and Journal of Research on Technology in Education, among others. Dr Tamara Collins-Parks teaches literacy, language acquisition, and multicultural education in the Department of Dual Language and English Learner Education at San Diego State University. She has taught English Language Development, and now coordinates the Master“s program in Critical Literacy and Social Justice. Dr Collins-Parks spent the last seven years supporting candidates in the Teacher Performance Assessment. Her previous publications include a chapter in the anthology Literacy Ideology, Teachers“ Beliefs, Language Policy and Parent Voice.