Faculty and Staff

Mindy Legard Larson - Assistant Professor, Elementary Education Coordinator

Potter 220
503-883-503 883 2203
milarson@linfield.edu

Education: Ph.D. Oregon State University, M.S. Western Oregon University, B.S. Linfield College

Academic Interests:
Literacy pedagogy and assessment
Literacy teacher identity development
Feminist poststructural theory and research

Presentations
Phillips, D.K , Larson, M.L., Harris, G., & Higgins, K (2009, April). Embodied journeys in feminist poststructural theory. American Education Research Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.

Larson, M.L. (2009, February). Literacy teacher education at a crossroad: Promoting critical thinking and authentic instruction in an NCLB environment panel, M.L. Larson (Chair), Altering teacher manuals: literacy theory and practice. Paper presented at the 21st Annual Oregon Reading Association conference. Portland, OR.

Larson, M.L. (2008, November). A scaffold for critically examining literacy curriculum with preservice teachers. 98th Annual National Council of Teachers of English Convention. San Antonio, TX.

Harris, G., Higgins, K , Phillips, D.K & Larson, M.L. &. (2008, May). Trying on—being in—becoming : Four women’s “intergenerational” journal in feminist poststructural theory. Fourth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, IL.

Larson, M.L. (2007, July). Preservice teachers’ critical analyses of literacy programs. Whole Language Umbrella of the National Council of Teachers of English Summer Institute, Louisville, KY.

Larson, M.L. (2007, May). Crisis of learning: An autoethnography of becoming a poststructural feminist. Third International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, IL.

Phillips, D.K. & Larson, M.L. (2007, May). Preservice teacher education from and with the posts. Third International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, IL.

Larson, M.L. & Phillips, D.K. (2007, February). Teacher-driven action research: Taking back literacy instruction. 19th Annual Oregon Reading Association conference. Portland, OR.

Larson, M.L. & Phillips, D.K. (2006, May). Research as transitional space. Second International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, IL.

Phillips, D.K. & Larson, M.L. (2006, April). Who are we becoming as teacher educators of literacy? American Association of Educational Researchers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Larson, M.L. & Phillips, D.K. (2005, February). Reclaiming reading in a scientifically proven landscape. 17th Annual Oregon Reading Association conference. Portland, OR.

Larson, M.L. (2004, January). Becoming a teacher of literacy through collaborative mentorship and district partnership. 7th Annual Oregon Association of Teacher Educators conference. Tualatin, OR.

Publications:
Phillips, D.K , Harris, G., Larson, M.L. & Higgins, K. (2009, in press). Trying on—being in—becoming : Four women’s “intergenerational” journal in feminist poststructural theory. Qualitative Inquiry, 15(9).

Phillips, D.K. & Larson, M.L. (2009). Embodied discourses of literacy in the lives of two preservice teachers. Teacher Development: An international journal of teacher’s professional development, 13(2), 135-146.

Larson, M.L. (2008). Preservice literacy teachers in transition: Identity as subjectivity. The International Journal of Learning, 15(6), 203-210.

Larson, M.L. (2008). Preservice literacy teacher identity development: Discourses, subjectivity and agency. Saarbrucken, Germany: VDM.

Larson, M.L. & Phillips, D.K (2005). Becoming a teacher of literacy: The struggle between authoritative discourses. Teaching Education, 16(4), 311-323.

Favorite Quotes

When you choose curriculum, it is a political act. When you make a decision about who will learn what and how, you are taking political action. And even if you choose not to act, your passivity is also a political action. Joan Wink

Learning to teach-like teaching itself-is always the process of becoming; a time of formation and transformation, a scrutiny into what one is doing, and who one can become. Deborah Britzman