BOOKS
Ávila, J. & Zacher Pandya, J. (forthcoming, 2012). Critical Digital Literacies as Social Praxis: Intersections and challenges. Edited book under contract July, 2011 with Peter Lang’s New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies Series (M. Knobel & C. Lankshear, Eds.)
Zacher Pandya, J. (2011). Overtested: How high-stakes accountability fails English language learners. Teachers College Press.
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES:
Zacher Pandya, J. (2012). A Scale Analysis of the Effects of US Federal Policy. Pedagogies: An International Journal, 7(2), 115-131.
Zacher Pandya, J. (2012). Mandating and standardizing the teaching of critical literacy skills: A cautionary tale. Theory Into Practice, 51(1), 20-26.
Ávila, J. & Zacher Pandya, J. (2012). This Issue (The Future of Critical Literacies in US Schools: An Introduction). Theory Into Practice, 51(1), 1-3.
Ávila, J., Zacher Pandya, J. Benson, V.B. & P.D. Pearson. (2011). Conducting instructional intervention research in the midst of a state takeover. Pedagogies: An International Journal, 6(1), 30-45. DOI: 10.1080/1554480X.2011.532085.
Zacher, J. (2009). Christina’s Worlds: Negotiating childhood in the city. Educational Studies, 45, 1-18.
Zacher, J. (2009). The over-testing of English language learners and their teachers. Teachers College Record, Date Published: April 02, 2009. http://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 15605.
Hull, G., Zacher, J. & L. Hibbert. (2009). Youth, Risk, and Equity in a Global World. Review of Research in Education (33), 1, 117-159.
Zacher, J. (2008). Analyzing Children’s Social Positioning and Struggles for Recognition in a Classroom Literacy Event. Research in the Teaching of English (43), 1, 12-41.
Zacher, J. (2007). Talking About Difference and Defining Social Relations With Labels. Language Arts, (85), 2, 115-124.
Hull, G. & J. Zacher (2007). Enacting Identities: An ethnography of a job training program. Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research (7), 1, 71-102.
Zacher, J. (2006). White girls constructing abstract and embodied racial identities in an urban elementary school. Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research Journal, 2, pp. 19-30.
Zacher, J. (2006). “I know about the holocaust!”: Reading and identity work in a diverse urban classroom. The California Reader, (40), 1, 26-32.
Zacher, J. (2003). “So is it a noun or a verb?”: Examining Discourses of Classroom Language Teaching and Development. Educational Practice and Theory (25), 2, pp. 35-52.
EDITOR-REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS:
Ávila, J. & Zacher Pandya, J. (forthcoming). Critical Digital Literacies: Traveling, Textual Authority, and Transformation. In J. Ávila & J. Zacher Pandya, (Eds). Critical digital literacies as social praxis: Intersections and challenges (Ch. 1). New York: Peter Lang.
Zacher, J. (2008). Social Hierarchies and Identity Politics: What a Bourdieuian analysis adds to our understanding of literacy practices and multicultural curricula. In A. Luke & J. Albright (Eds.), Bourdieu and Literacy Education, (pp. 477-528). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Leander, K. & Zacher, J. (2007). Literacy, identity, and the changing social spaces of learning. In A. Berger, L. Rush, & J. Eakle (Eds.) Secondary School Reading and Writing: What Research Reveals for Classroom Practices. National Council of Teachers of English.
Hull, G., & Zacher, J. (2007). Identity formation and literacy development within vocational education and work. In Lesley Farrell & Tara Fenwick (Eds.), Educating the global workforce: Knowledge, knowledge work, and knowledge workers. World Yearbook of Education 2007 (pp. 212-222). London: Kogan Page.
Hull, G., Jury, M. & J. Zacher. (2007). Possible Selves: Literacy, Identity, and Development in Work, School, and Community. In A. Belzer, (Ed.), Quality in Adult Basic Education: Issues and Challenges (pp. 299-318). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Zacher, J. (2005). Effects of a Multicultural Curriculum in a Racially and Socioeconomically Diverse 5th-Grade Classroom. In D. McInerney & S. Van Etten (Eds.), Council on Anthropology & Education’s Research on Sociocultural Influences on Motivation and Learning: Focus on Curriculum (Vol. 5).
INVITED ARTICLES:
Zacher, J. & J. Ávila. (forthcoming). Review of Literacy With an Attitude: Educating Working-Class Children in Their Own Self-Interest. Second Edition. By Patrick Finn. In Urban Education.
Zacher, J. (2008). From Theory to Practice: Vygotsky, sociocultural research, and classroom assessment. Language Arts (86), 1, 66-69.
Zacher, J. (2007). Professional Resources for Expanding Spaces of Learning. Book review for Language Arts, (85), 1, 78-83.
Zacher, J. (2006). A review of Travel Notes from the New Literacy Studies, K. Pahl & J. Roswell, Eds. Teachers College Press, 2006. Editor-reviewed.
Hull, G., & Zacher, J. (2004). What is After-School Worth? Developing Literacies and Identities Out-of-School. Voices in Urban Education, 3(Winter/Spring), 36-44.
Zacher Pandya, J. (2012). Uncertainty and ambivalence in children’s digital narratives of immigration. Paper proposed for presentation at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. November.
Zacher Pandya, J. (2012). Specific and schematic narratives of immigration in elementary students’ digital stories. Paper proposed for presentation at the Literacy Research Association Conference, San Diego, CA. November.
Zacher Pandya, J. (2012). Writing losses and design gains?: Findings from an in-school critical digital literacies project. Paper proposed for presentation at the Literacy Research Association Conference, San Diego, CA. November.
Zacher Pandya, J. & Ávila, J. (2012). Critical digital literacies as social praxis: Intersections and challenges (Co-Chairs). Symposium presented at the American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, Canada. April.
Zacher Pandya, J. (2012). Testing for Testing’s Sake: Effects of High-Stakes Assessment and Structured Language Arts Curricula on English Language Learners. Paper presented at the National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention, Chicago, IL. November.
Zacher Pandya, J. (2011). Mandating and standardizing the teaching of critical literacy skills: A cautionary tale. Paper presented as part of a symposium on critical literacy at the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA. April.
Zacher Pandya, J. (2011). Time to Test: A Spatio-temporal Reading of Literacy Practices in High-stakes Testing Settings. Paper presented at the National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research, Madison, WI. February.
Zacher, J. (2010). Standardizing the teaching of critical thinking skills to create critically literate children: A cautionary tale. Paper presented as part of a panel on critical literacy at the National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention, Orlando, FL. November.
Zacher, J. (2010). Using Scale to Analyze the Effects of No Child Left Behind in and out of Language Arts Classrooms. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, Denver, CO. April.
Zacher, J. (2009). From the Body to the Global: Using geographical scale to understand the effects of No Child Left Behind in and out of language arts classrooms. Paper presented at the Literacy Research Association (formerly the National Reading Conference), Albuquerque NM. December.
Zacher, J. (2009). The Multiple Consequences of Over-testing English Language Learners: Results from a classroom literacy ethnography. Paper presented at the National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research, Los Angeles, CA. February 2009.
Zacher, J. (2008). Oral and literate participation opportunities for English language learners in a highly structured fourth-grade American classroom. Paper accepted for presentation at the 15th International Conference on Learning, Chicago, IL. June 2008.
Zacher, J. (2008). The denial of racism and the racialization of urban spaces in children’s worlds: Influences of Pred on an urban educational ethnography. Paper presented, as part of a panel on Allan Pred, at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. April 2008.
Zacher, J. (2007). Case studies of 3 English Language Learners in a highly structured language arts classroom: Achievement measures and ethnographic observational data. Paper presented as part of a symposium titled “Literacy Policy Implementation in Urban Elementary Classrooms: What’s at stake for children?” for presentation at the National Reading Conference, Austin, TX, November 2007.
Zacher, J. (2007). Surface and Hidden Functions of Thinking Technologies in Scripted Language Arts Classrooms. National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention, New York, NY.
Zacher, J. (2007). “That’s not ‘the same,’ that’s ‘different’ ”: Thinking maps, reading comprehension, and the denial of multimodality in Open Court classrooms. National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research, Nashville, TN.
Zacher, J., & C. Lewis-Ida (2007). Expanding Beyond the Anthology: Strategies for classroom teachers. Whittier College Children’s Literature Conference. Whittier, CA, April, 2007.
Zacher, J. & S. Stanton. (2007). Discussing Race & Identity in Mixed Company. Whittier College Symposium “Beyond Valuing Diversity: Promoting equity and social justice for children and youth in multicultural societies” (invited talk). Whittier, CA. February 2007.
Zacher, J. (2006). Identity and Literacy: An analysis of struggles for representation, subjectivity, and legitimacy. National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention, Nashville, TN. November 2006.
Zacher, J. (2006). Identity and Literacy: Struggles for representation, subjectivity, and legitimacy. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA. April 2006.
Benson, V.B., Pearson, P.D., Avila, J. & J. Zacher (2005). Conducting instructional intervention research in the midst of a state takeover? Paper presented at the National Reading Conference, Miami, FL. December, 2005.
Zacher, J. (2005). Analyzing children’s social positioning and struggles for recognition in a classroom literacy event. Paper accepted for presentation at the National Reading Conference, Miami, FL. December, 2005.
Zacher, J. (2005). Analyzing male students’ use of written texts in their struggles for recognition and power in an urban fifth grade classroom. Paper presentated at the California Educational Research Association, Long Beach, CA. November 2005.
Zacher, J. (2005). Constructing Racial Identities Across Everyday School Spaces: A Tale of Three White Girls. Paper presented at the Annual American Educational Research Association meeting, Montreal. April, 2005.
Zacher, J. (2005). Stories From the Elementary Classroom: Interracial Friendships in an Integrated School. Paper presented at the Annual American Educational Research Association meeting, Montreal. April, 2005.
Zacher, J. & Ware, P. (2005). Multimedia Narratives and Social Science Writing: Undergraduates and Youth Developing Voice in Multimodal Literacies. Paper accepted for presentation at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, CA. March, 2005.
Zacher, J. (2005). Spatializing the Study of Literacies and Identities in Practice. Paper accepted for presentation at the National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research, Columbus, OH. February, 2005.
Zacher, J. (2005). Questions of Intimacy and Matters of Scale in Ethnographic Work with Former Students. Paper accepted for presentation at the Ethnography in Education Forum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. February, 2005.
Zacher, J. (2004). Social Hierarchies and Identity Politics: A Bourdieuian Analysis of Literacy Practices and Multicultural Curricula in a Fifth-Grade Classroom. Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA. November, 2004.
Zacher, J. (2004). “If there was still slavery…”: Reading Sojourner Truth in a Diverse Fifth-Grade Classroom. Paper presented at the National Reading Conference, San Antonio, TX. December, 2004.
Zacher, J. & Menard-Warwick, J. (2004). “That’s the way it is for us too”: Reading to Construct Identities. Paper presented at the National Reading Conference, San Antonio, TX. December, 2004.
Zacher, J. & Ware, P. (2004). The Affordances of Multimedia Storytelling and Social Science Writing: Undergraduates and Youth Creating Reciprocal Relationships. Paper presented at the National Reading Conference, San Antonio, TX. December, 2004.
Zacher, J. (2004). Reading Sojourner Truth: Literacy events, practices, and performances in a diverse urban fifth-grade classroom. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. San Diego, CA. April , 2004.
Zacher, J. (2004). “I’m a test you all on how much you all know 50 Cent”: Urban Fifth-Grade Goys’ Engagement With the Work and Lives of Hip-Hop and Rap Artists. Paper presented at the National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research. Berkeley, CA. February, 2004.
Ware, P. & Zacher, J. (2004). The Affordances of Multimedia Storytelling for Undergraduates and Youth. Paper presented at the National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research. Berkeley, CA. February, 2004.
Zacher, J. (2003). Reading and Writing with Christina and DeAndre: Tracing Children’s Identity work in Literacy Events in an Urban Fifth-Grade Classroom. Paper presented at the National Reading Conference. Scottsdale, AZ. December, 2003.
Zacher, J. (2003). Gender, Race, and Friendship: Salient Identity Categories in an Urban Fifth-Grade Classroom. Paper accepted for presentation at the American Anthropological Association. Chicago, IL. November, 2003.
Zacher, J. (2003). Maintaining the Social Order with Stolen Shoes: Literacy Performances of Fifth-Grade Boys. Paper presented at the International Literacy and Education Research Network (LERN) Conference on Learning. London, England. July, 2003.
Zacher, J. (2003). Gender and Identity in Literacy Events: Girls and Boys Reading and Writing in the Fifth Grade. Data Analysis Consultation session, Ethnography in Education Forum, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA. February, 2003.
Zacher, J. (2003). Gender and Identity in Literacy Events: A Spatial Perspective; OR, Christina (Re)Creates a Latina Identity: Reworking Middle-Class Whiteness in a Diverse Urban School. Poster at the 2nd Annual Educational Conference: Converging Realities: Embracing Diverse Disciplinary Perspectives. UC, Santa Barbara, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education. Santa Barbara, CA. February, 2003.
Hull, G., & Zacher, J. (2002). New Literacies, New Selves, Second Chances: Exploring Possibilities for Self-Representation Through Writing and Multi-Media in a Community Technology Center. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. New Orleans, LA. April, 2002.
Hull, G., & Zacher, J. (2002). Literate Identities, Life Paths, and the Knowledge Economy. Paper presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL. March, 2002.