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Kathleen Collins

kmc40@psu.edu
Assistant Professor of Education
Language and Literacy

Kathleen Collins’ (University of Michigan - Ann Arbor) program of research is designed to build to our understanding of the contextual factors, literacies, and interactional processes that contribute to the construction of school success and school failure. Her work explores what counts as “ability” and “disability” in specific instructional contexts and argues against deficit notions of ability. She has presented this work at national and international conferences, and her work has appeared in Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, Learning Disabilities Quarterly, and English Journal. Her most recent book is Ability Profiling and School Failure: One Child's Struggle to be Seen as Competent. Her current research uses a multiple literacies framework to investigate the role of the arts in supporting children's acquisition of academic and content area literacies.

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