Dawnene D. Hassett

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999
Curriculum & Instruction
Teacher Education Rm: 456E
225 N. Mills Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Phone: (608) 263-4666        
Email: ddhassett@wisc.edu

Areas of Study

• Early Childhood Education
• Elementary Education
• English/Language Arts Education (Literacy Studies)
• Literacy Studies
• Reading Education (Literacy Studies)

Publications

Hassett, D. D. (2009). New literacies in the elementary classroom: The instructional dynamics of visual-texts. in K. Hall (Ed.). Interdisciplinary perspectives on learning to read: Culture, cognition and pedagogy, ( ).

Hassett, D. D. (2009). Children’s literature and early literacy success: Using the Charlotte Zolotow award collection in early childhood teacher education. Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 30 (4), ( ) .

Hassett, D. D., & Curwood, J. S. (2009). Theories and practices of multimodal education: The instructional dynamics of picture books and primary classrooms. Reading Teacher, 63 (4), ( ) .

Hassett, D. D. (2008). Teacher flexibility and judgment: A multidynamic literacy theory. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 8 (3), 297-330.

Hassett, D. D., & Schieble, M. B. (2007). Finding space for the visual in K-12 literacy instruction. English Journal, 97 (1), 77-103.
https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/xythoswfs/webui/_xy-23215051_1

Hassett, D. D. (2006). Signs of the times: The governance of alphabetic print over ‘appropriate’ and ‘natural’ reading development. . Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 6 (10), 77-103 .

Hassett, D. D. (2006). Technological difficulties: A theoretical frame for understanding the non-relativistic permanence of traditional print literacy in elementary education. . Journal of Curriculum Studies, 38 (2), 135-159 .
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Hassett, D. D. (2005). Reading hypertextually: Children's literature and comprehension instruction.. New Horizons. , March http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/literacy/hassett.htm

Hammerberg [Hassett], D. D. (2004). Comprehension instruction for socioculturally diverse classrooms: A review of what we know.. The Reading Teacher, 57 (7), 2-12.
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Hammerberg [Hassett], D. D. (2004). Multiple ways to make meaning: Children’s literature, hypertextuality, and early writing instruction. In M. Pereyra (Ed.) . Nuevos alfabetismos, multialfabetismos [New Literacies, Multiliteracies], ( ). Malaga: Ediciones Aljibe.

Hammerberg [Hassett], D. D. (2004). Technologies of the self in classrooms designed as “learning environments”: (Im)possible ways of being in early literacy instruction. In B. M. Baker & K. Heyning (Eds.). Dangerous coagulations? The uses of Foucault in the study of education , (359-382). New York: Peter Lang.

Hammerberg [Hassett], D.D. & Grant, C.A. (2001). Monocultural literacy: The power of print, pedagogy, and epistemological blindness. In Schmidt, P. R. & Mosenthal, P. B. (Eds.). Advances in reading / language research, vol. 9: Reconceptualizing literacy in the new age of pluralism and multiculturalism, (65-88). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.

Hammerberg [Hassett], D.D. (2001). Reading and writing hypertextually: Children's literature, technology, and early writing instruction. Language Arts, 78(3), 207-216.
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Hammerberg [Hassett], D. D.  (1999 ). Disrupted assumptions: Social and historical constructions of literacy, illiteracy, and e-literacy. L. Lundahl & T. Popkewitz . Education, Research, and Society, (13-46 ). Umeå, Sweden: Umeå University.

Interests

• Sociocultural studies in literacy
• Literacy and technology
• Reading and writing instruction in relation to multimodal, interactive, hypertextual texts
• Implications of new technologies and new forms of texts in early reading instruction
• Analysis of "best practices" in literacy education through critical and postmodern theories

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Graduate Programs in Literacy Education
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SAMPLE OF PUBLISHED PAPERS

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