Positioning and Identity

As an educational researcher, I consider myself more as a “poet” than a novelist. By that I indicate that I am attracted to the small happening, to the minor key, to the significance of the things said (and unsaid) in a particular moment as a way of opening up the world. Like good poems, these recorded moments are places of return and reinterpretation. Additionally, I have attempted in my work around interaction to consider how the movements and positions of bodies and materials relate to words spoken and displayed. How do our current means of semiotics assist us in these interpretations, and how do they come up short?

Boldt, G. M., & Leander, K. (2017) PDF. Becoming through ‘the break’: A post-human account of a child’s play. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 17(3), 409–425. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468798417712104

Prinsen, F., Haan, M. de, & Leander, K. M. (2015) PDF. Networked Identity. YOUNG, 23(1), 19–38. https://doi.org/10.1177/1103308814557396

Leander, K., & Boldt, G. (2013) PDF. Rereading “A pedagogy of multiliteracies.” Journal of Literacy Research, 45(1), 22–46. https://doi.org/10.1177/1086296x12468587

de Haan, M., & Leander, K. M. (2011) PDF. The construction of ethnic boundaries in classroom interaction through social space. Culture & Psychology, 17(3), 319–338. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354067x11408136

Leander, K. M., & Osborne, M. D. (2008) PDF. Complex positioning: teachers as agents of curricular and pedagogical reform. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 40(1), 23–46. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220270601089199

Leander, K., & Frank, A. (2006) PDF. The aesthetic production and distribution of image/Subjects among online youth. E-Learning and Digital Media, 3(2), 185–206. https://doi.org/10.2304/elea.2006.3.2.185

Leander, K. M. (2004) PDF. “They took out the wrong context”: Uses of time‐Space in the practice of positioning. Ethos, 32(2), 188–213. https://doi.org/10.1525/eth.2004.32.2.188

Holland, D., & Leander, K. (2004) PDF. Ethnographic studies of positioning and subjectivity: An introduction. Ethos, 32(2), 127–139. https://doi.org/10.1525/eth.2004.32.2.127

Leander, K. M. (2002) PDF. Locating Latanya: The situated production of identity artifacts in classroom interaction. Research in the Teaching of English, 37(2), 198–250. https://doi.org/10.58680/rte20021770

Leander, K. M. (2002) PDF. Polycontextual construction zones: Mapping the expansion of schooled space and identity. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 9(3), 211–237. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327884mca0903_04

Leander, K. M. (2002) PDF. Silencing in classroom interaction: Producing and relating social spaces. Discourse Processes, 34(2), 193–235. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15326950dp3402_4

Leander, K. M. (2001) PDF. “This is our freedom bus going home right now”: Producing and hybridizing space-Time contexts in pedagogical discourse. Journal of Literacy Research, 33(4), 637–679. https://doi.org/10.1080/10862960109548128

Leander, K. M., & Brown, D. E. (1999) PDF. “You understand, but you don’t believe it”: Tracing the stabilities and instabilities of interaction in a physics classroom through a multidimensional framework. Cognition and Instruction, 17(1), 93–135. https://doi.org/10.1207/s1532690xci1701_4