Professor, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, UC Santa Barbara
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Judith Green’s research interests include ethnography, discourse processes in reading in educational settings, constructing literate communities within classrooms, and language interaction and social organization (LISO). How do children gain access to school knowledge, for example? What counts as literacy and learning in school settings? How is knowledge socially constructed? What opportunities for learning are constructed in classrooms, and who has access to these opportunities? How does the theory you select shape your research questions, the methods you use, and the claims that you can make about a phenomenon? As a member of the Santa Barbara Classroom Discourse Group, a collaborative community of teacher ethnographers, student ethnographers and university-based ethnographers, Green has been engaged in exploring such questions guided by theories on the social construction of knowledge construction to help make visible how teachers write theory with students and how theory informs practice.

Green, who received her M.A. in Educational Psychology from California State University, Northridge, and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, has taught for more than 3 decades across levels of schooling (K-6, higher education). With colleagues, she has published articles on ethnographic research in research handbooks for the National Council of Teachers of English, the American Educational Research Association, and the International Reading Association. She has also published research based books and articles on classroom discourse and on the social construction of literate practices. Her most recent research focuses on how classroom practices support access to students across academic disciplines.

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