Hello WinkWorld Readers,

If you follow WinkWorld, you know that I have been featuring blog posts on language acquisition, until I broke that pattern to share photos and memories from our Yankton College reunion and my Mobridge High School reunion. 

In this issue of WinkWorld, I share a book talk which Deb Harrison, a teacher in WY, created for her colleagues in her school district. Thank you, Deb.

The Power of Story by Joan Wink

Deb began with the following slide:

The Power of Reading by Steve Krashen

Next, Deb shared this animated review of The Power of Reading which she had created several years ago for one of my  grad classes at Black Hills State University.  At that time, she did not add the audio, but she added it here. Please note that she posted this also on YouTube.

Then, Deb and the teacher/participants at the book talk discussed the content of the chapters in The Power of Story.  Previously, Missy Urbaniak had created the following visual Table of Contents as a surprise gift for me, and Deb used these to guide the discussion.  If you click on each of the chapter images, they will become large enough for you to read.

Thank you Deb and Missy!

Dear WinkWorld Readers, the past few posts have focused directly on language acquisition/literacy development.  I do this so that others can use any of my resources.  It is clear to me that my readership is highly diverse:  language/literacy professionals; family and friends of many decades; and prairie people.  I try to share thoughts which might relate to one of these groups.  I confess to a strong bias towards books and kids, which hopefully is our connecting thread.

However, I am creating this present issue of WinkWorld for me.  I want to maintain the treasured memories of the two school reunions we attended in July of 2022.  First, I will share some photos from my 60th high school reunion, and this will be followed by  our undergrad college, Yankton College, reunion.  If I use any incorrect names, it is totally my fault. 

Mobridge High School Reunion Class of 1962

Most of the people in these photos have been friends for longer than 60 years, as most of us ran the streets of Mobridge throughout K-12.  It was a classic small town middle America experience.  As I remember our class, we were never very cliquish; we all just kind of were friends with everyone. Most days.  One of my fondest memories of this reunion is that pattern continued:  Everyone just kept moving so they could visit with everyone.  Diane Wessel Kindt and Bingo Kindt are the glue which holds us all together.  They hosted a picnic for all of us. 

L to R: Bev Nelson, Wayne Lott, Diane Kindt, Donna Brown, JoAnn Rundlett, me, Bertha Daniels, Don Hamann, Jim Steinwand, Larry Lekness, Penny Nesrud, Don Brown, Bingo Kindt, &  Darrel Smith.

Here we are at the dinner, after Wink finally corralled us into one place.

Friends: Penny, me, Tiny, Diane, and Runny.  Missed you, Toots and Caroline.

Class of 1961

The Class of 1961 joined us for most of the celebration.  I remember when we were kids, I used to stare at these older students with awe and wonder.  They were so cool!  We were not.  At least that was my perspective.

Here they are.

We had friends from other classes join us, too.  I was so happy to reconnect with Tiny, PJ, Bill, Jerry of the famed Brown family.

Human Connections Between The Two Reunions

I was reminded of all of the human connections between the Yankton College alums and the Mobridge high school alums.  Isn’t that right: Mel/Tammy, Fay Loll, Louise and Angie Borman, MJ, Grows/Mains, Nancy, Carol Sheehan, and others? It makes me muse on the impact of the Reverend Roger Grow, who was one of my mighy anchors when I was a teenager. Here are Louise and  Angie Bormann, who certainly represent the connections between Mobridge and Yankton.

Yankton College Reunion

For those who do not know, Wink and I met at a “mixer” at our first night at Yankton College, fall of 1962.  We “went together” for four years and married the day before graduation, as all of the family would be there anyway, and we didn’t want Grammie/Grampy to have to make a second trip.  We had a terrific classical humanities education  with excellent professors back  in the days when Yankton College was a beloved college–it is now a minimum security federal prison.

Here is Kingsbury Hall, “girls’ dorm,” where we met at that mixer, and where I lived for the first 3 years of undergrad.

Below see Wink’s two friends from our wedding: John Hughes, Best.Man.Ever, and Rod Schellpeper, groomsman and “roomie” before me.

Below, Joe Ward, the living legacy of YC, and Wink.

Mary Albrecht Fesenmaier, my MN Nordic friend, then and now.

Jan Bertsch and I have been friends through many chapters of life.

I even connected with our dear sweet Lori Youngberg, who babysat Dawn and Bo in the early 70s.

How many people are lucky enough to take their very own 96-year-old  “AngelMama”  to their 60th high school reunion?*

These reunions reminded me a lot of the book I am presently reading, A Life in Light: Meditations of Impermanence by an author I love, Mary Pipher.  Our reunions had me musing a lot on impermanence….

* a story which needs to be told

Dear WinkWorld Readers,

We continue with our series on “the big picture” of language acquisition.  In this series, we are attempting to connect language acquisition–whether it be in a French class, a bilingual education class, an ESL class, a sign language class, or literacy development, etc.  I am attempting to get a lot of materials posted in one place for colleagues’ ease of use.   As I am retired, I do not want my treasured materials in  some dirty ol’ box out in the barn.  I prefer you take what you need and adapt it to fit the needs of your own context. A citation is always appreciated it.

I may have to eventually interrupt this series, as life goes on, and I have other thoughts to share.  For example this month we have been to my 60th high school class reunion and  also our undergraduate college reunion.  I must capture those memories and  try to share the magic.

In what follows, the 4th post in this series, I am sharing the work of Richard Ruíz.  Sadly, he left us way too early, but his ideas continue to inform language acquisition.  Do you think of language as a problem, a right, or a resource?  In addition, you can always count on Lev Vygotsky, a voice from the past, to lead us into the future.

Happy Reading, Writing, and Thinking!

Here it is in a  previous WinkWorld.

Teaching As  Mentoring

Teaching as Mentoring.

And, here it is in the original publication.

https://www.joanwink.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Teaching-as-Mentoring.pdf

Dear WinkWorld Readers,

This is the 3rd post in a series of language acquisition posts.  Feel free to use, if it serves a need for you.  In the first post of this series, we listened to Dr. Stephen Krashen with a  holistic look at the connections from language acquisition to ESL to foreign languages to bilingual classes to literacy, etc.  He even talked about a parrot’s language acquisition.  Next, we looked at Deb Harrison’s, a teacher in WYO, as she shared an animated video of her own learning when she read “The Power of Reading.”

In this 3rd blog of this series, I am sharing a holistic look at language acquisition as it  relates to bilingual learning.  I created  this video while I was still a full-time faculty in CA. The enclosed link was created with assistance of IT personnel from California State University, Stanislaus and Black Hills State University. Thank you.  The content has stood the test of time–me, I am not so sure. . .

Principles of Bilingual Education, 11 minutes – Please remember that these same principles apply to literacy development, foreign language classes, ESL classes, etc.

http://youtu.be/8Blua4pTeXU

Below here, I summarize in 50 seconds.

Turns out that making meaning and feeling safe matter a lot when acquiring another language or developing literacy.  There are many ways to do this.

Thank you, Katie Knox, for this image of you making meaning with your Dad in a safe context.  And, thank you for allowing me to use your wonderful images in “The Power of Story” from Libraries Unlimited.

The Power of Story

Hi WinkWorld Readers,

As you know, I started a series on language acquisition and literacy development in the previous WinkWorld. We began with a 25-minute video by Steve Krashen, who paints a broad picture of  language acquisition, literacy development, foreign language instruction, ESL/EAL, bilingual education, etc.  It is all about communication.

The video is like the story of my professional life–I started as a high school Spanish teacher (Philadelphia), moved to junior high language arts and then more high school Spanish to kids  who were already bilingual (Benson AZ), eventually  to pre-K Spanish immersion and bilingual programs (Davis, CA), and then teacher preparation and bilingual teacher preparation (TX A&M and CSUS), and I finally landed in literacy, the connecting thread throughout my entire career.

The Power of Reading by Steve Krashen is one of the books which really helped me understand all of this.  Deb Harrison, who was a student in one my classes at Black Hills State University, once turned in this Powtoons which captured some of these ideas.  Deb is now a high school teacher in Wyoming.  We hope you enjoy.  Thank you, Deb, for sharing.

There is no audio–just follow the writing with your own power of reading.

Somehow all of my treasured books  end up being redecorated.  Below, you will see an earlier edition of The Power of Reading.

Yes, that darling little boy in an Eagles football shirt really is Dean Austin Wink of the Wisconsin Winks.  He is now a geology student at the University of Wisconsin,White Water. I am thrilled to have another “rock hound” in our family.  I know my Grampy Dave would be happy, as he was our very own “pebble puppy.”

Dear WinkWorld Readers,

My plan is to share a  series of posts on language acquisition and literacy materials, so that others, who might need them, can access them easily.  I begin with a large holistic view.  In later posts, I will share individual pieces, but we begin with the big picture.

Dear WinkWorld Readers,

Sometimes it feels like I live in two different worlds: My town friends and my country friends.  Sometimes these two groups like different stories, but I just try to share whatever might have value for someone, somewhere.  In this WinkWorld, I share two different stories.  Below please meet my Storyteller mama and babies, which was a surprise gift to me a few years ago.   Thanks, Marje Kaiser!

The storyteller brings you the following two stories.

First, look what just came in the mail, unexpectedly.

As many of my former adult students could tell you, one of my great joys in being a professor is that I love to share my books, er,… and I hate to share my books.  I share when I see that a student might connect with a particular book, and I mostly  get the books returned in a timely fashion. But, sometimes one of my books ends up forgotten on an obscure bookshelf, under a couch, or with a stack of children’s book somewhere.  This seems to happen, when I need that book for a specific reason or person. Of course, I do not know where the book is. Years pass.

However, a couple of times a year, I get a surprise package in the mail, when a former student (now teacher) finds one of my books and mails it to me.  All of the happy memories of that student and that class come flooding back to me.  This is exactly what happened yesterday, when a book mailed from Wyoming showed up in our mail.  Thank you, Mandy  White.   I remember you so well: a quiet, engaged, active student.  You were such a curious, wonderful learner. And, thank you for your work as a teacher!  We appreciate you.

Mandy, I no longer need this book; do you want it back?  If not,  someone else want it?  I will mail it to you.  It’s good to keep books moving. What good do they do on my bookshelf? 

On to the second story. . . and, this story is specifically for another former student, now teacher, Deb Harrison. I hope you like the story, too.  The original story was in my first book, published in 1997.  I no longer have the page proofs of that book, so it is not readily available for online reading.  Here is a copy of what my first book looks like today.

I remember that day when the UPS guy delivered a copy of my first book to the ranch.  Of course, I was thrilled.  Standing outside in the wind, he looked at me and asked: “Is it a cookbook?”   Nope, Critical  Pedagogy: Notes from the Real World is not a cookbook. However, I did add a fudge recipe, to a later book,  The Power of Story, and it amazes me how many positive critiques, I have had about that recipe. . ..

Oh Fudge

Back To The Little Red Book about Critical Pedagogy

I prefer some of the original stories in the first edition better than those same stories in later editions, when various  editors asked me to cut back here and there, and add other stories.  I sort of felt that some of the stories lost their pizzazz with too much edit work. 

However, in the 3rd edition, pictured below, I did find a fairly good copy of an original story.

Deb, be sure to read until you come to the part of “Hooked on Books” by Fader and McNeil.

Critical Pedagogy 3rd Ed – The Benson Kids

Dear WinkWorld Readers,

This post is for 7th and 8th graders who might like to attend a FREE camp for kids to explore and learn about various career options which await them after high school. 

Check it out – click HERE.

Dear WinkWorld Readers,

It is not lost on me that my WinkWorld on snakes in the house had way more active, engaged readers with funny responses that my last WinkWorld on the research of three brand-new researchers, armed with their brand-new doctorates: Ana York, Jade Herman, and Dawn Wink.  My blog is eclectic, and my readership often seems to represent two different worlds–my two different worlds. 

In this post, I will share some of the links we created for the CARE (Conference on Academic Research in Education) and EQRC (Ethnographic and Qualitative Research Conference).

Click HERE to see a little video, which I created, to introduce our 3 new researchers. 

Below I am posting our group poster presentation, in which we share their combined research.

CLICK HERE FOR FULL SIZE VERSION.

Ana York’s poster presentation of her own research.

VIEW LARGER VERSION

Ana  York’s audio link:

https://youtu.be/2_VMAGvU7yw

Jade Herman’s poster of her research.

CLICK HERE FOR LARGER VERSION

Jade Herman’s YouTube of her Dissertation Defense

Dawn Wink

Below is a  YouTube link, which Dawn created to share the audio of her research.

Dr. York, Dr. Herman, and Dr. Wink, it is great fun working with you three.  Good luck with your research projects and the next ones to follow.

Photo  credit: dbd

3-10-2022

Dear WinkWorld Readers,

OK, I admit: My blog, WinkWorld, is quite eclectic.  Last time I wrote about blue racer snakes on the ranch…er, hanging from the ceiling, and this time I am writing about a professional educational conference, CARE, which has been sponsored by UNLV and Clark County School District of Las Vegas. 

CARE, Conference on Academic Research in Education

Click HERE to visit the CARE website.

This year the conference will be virtual, and I have the pleasure of introducing  three new docs and their research: Dr. York, Dr. Herman, and Dr. Wink.   The presentation was initiated last year, when I served on two of these committees (no, not on Dawn’s).  I noticed that these three young doc students were having totally different experiences – based on their program, their chair, their university, and who each of them were as researchers.  It was fascinating.

This blog post will be longer than my normal, but I need a place to save our CARE materials for the virtual conference….hence, my post today.

Click HERE to watch a little video of my introduction of our poster presentation and the three new doctors.

CARE Conference March 21/22, 2022

TITLE: Theory to Methods: Three Case Studies

Joan Wink, Ana York, Jade Herman, Dawn Wink

3.10.2022

INTRODUCTION

The purpose of this study, as represented in the poster, is twofold: First, it is to demonstrate distinct research methodologies, as used in three 2021 dissertations; and second, it is to demonstrate how theoretical foundations ground methodologies and inform their distinct research inquiries.

The Introduction of the poster will lay out a broad spectrum of theoretical foundations from multiple points of view, as understood by a senior scholar, Dr. Joan Wink, Professor Emerita of California State University, Stanislaus. All will be available via links in the RESOURCES.

Next, the poster will compare and contrast three very distinct doctoral dissertation methodologies (qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods) representing the broad continuum of research.

Dr. Ana York, Assistant Professor, California State University, Stanislaus, will begin by sharing her research, in which she used quantitative methods.

Dr. Jade Herman, Chief of Staff at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, will follow as she shares her research, in which she used qualitative and a quantitative method.

Dr. Dawn Wink, Associate Professor at Santa Fé Community College will then share her research, in which she used qualitative (Scholarly Personal Narrative) methods.

The participants who view this poster will learn the how-to of each method of the dissertations as the three doctoral scholars paint a portrait of their inquiry, sample size, theoretical foundation, methods, and findings. The Conclusion of the poster will emphasize the why of each of the processes as Dr. Joan Wink makes connections between theory and methodology.

What initiated this poster presentation?

Joan continues:

During 2020-2022, I was on several doctoral committees, and I observed how the experiences of three specific doctoral candidates were vastly different—depending on the program, the university, the chair of each committee, and the candidate herself.  As a veteran professor of languages, cultures, and philosophies, I appreciate how important it is for each graduate student or educational professional to understand the broad spectrum of philosophies, be able to articulate each, and to see how these various theories, perspectives, philosophies, turn from theory to practice in schools at all levels.

Meet Ana. Ana’s quantitative dissertation used a quasi-experimental, single-group, pretest-posttest design in her study of meditation.

Meet Jade. Jade’s mixed methods dissertation used intrinsic case study and transcendental phenomenology, plus a chi square test for contextual information in her study of an educational leadership program.

Meet Dawn. Dawn’s qualitative methods used Scholarly Personal Narrative (SPN), as she followed the Pre-search, Me-search, Re-search, and We-search methodology in her study of ecolinguistic.

CONCLUSION

In this presentation, we shared three different philosophies of education and how each affected the experiences of these three doctoral candidates and their research.  Our over-arching goal is that each viewer of this poster presentation will come away with a deeper understanding of, not only a broad view of the various educational philosophies, but also the ability to name and understand each to a greater degree.  Ultimately, we want each of viewers to understand their own philosophical grounding.

RESOURCES, plus a short abstract of each link.

These short stories explaining the theories/philosophies/points-of-view/perspectives will be holistically referred to as the “big ideas” which guide teaching and learning.

There are many ways to think about schools, and there are many philosophies guiding our beliefs about schools.  However, for our purpose, we are emphasizing the language which describes two, three, four, and five points-of-view. Different academic areas sometimes use other terms, synonyms, and descriptors for the basic “big ideas” or philosophies. (Joan Wink, 3.10.2022)

100 Years In A 1000 Words

First, A Little History.  I have tried to write 100 years of history in a 1000 words.  My goal is to tell a story about history.

https://www.joanwink.com/a-little-history/

Two Big Ideas: A Short Narrative by Joan Wink

https://www.joanwink.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/two-big-ideas-narrative.pdf

Two Big Ideas on Teaching and Learning: A Visual by Jenny Thompson, 2007, CSUS.  Of course, there are not just two big ideas. In addition, a binary often limits our thinking.  However, qualitative and quantitative are often two methods we have all experienced in one way or another.  Frank Smith (1992) used, Classical and Official, to represent these two big ideas.  The ‘5 ism’s’ are often used by many foundational texts.

https://joanwink.com/newsletter/2007/perspective1.pdf

A Visual of 2 and 5 Big Ideas created by Natalie den Dulk Merrill while she was in my class in my graduate class, 2007.

https://www.joanwink.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/5isms-visual.pdf

The 5 ISM’s Maaria Thompson had fun summarizing these big ideas.

https://www.joanwink.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/5isms-summary.pdf

Elliot W. Eisner captures the notion of captures the notion of “Two Visions of Education” by using the terms:  Formalistic and Romantic. Teachers College Record, Date Published: November 07, 2005.

http://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 12234, Date Accessed: 1/18/2006 10:56:19 AM

In Critical Pedagogy: Notes from The Real World, I referred to the three big ideas as transmission, generative, and transformative.  Others use the words, constructivist, constructionist, and/or social constructivist when they refer to 4 or even 5 big ideas.

https://www.joanwink.com/critical-pedagogy-4th-ed-the-lesson-of-dayna/

ADDITIONAL LINKS FOR CARE CONFERENCE:

Resources

Joan’s Sharing (Narrative)

Video Introduction by Joan Wink