Education
BA (Language, History, and Education)
Eastern Michigan University, 1971
MA (Linguistics and Language Teaching)
University of Leeds, England, 1981
PhD (Language, Literacy, and Culture),
School of Education, Stanford University, 1989
Background
I grew up in Michigan and lived in Western Europe, the Peoples Republic
of China (PRC), and the Western & Eastern U.S. before moving to the
University of Hawai`i in 1992. I have also worked with students
and teachers in Samoa and Japan. My research and teaching interests include
qualitative research, bilingualism/biliteracy, gender, and language policy
and planning.
Current Academic Interests
In working with the CSLR to serve State and local immigrant communities,
I take a critical participatory research (CPR) approach in the development
and theorizing of situated practices across diverse migrant populations.
Drawing on postmodern and New Literacies theories, the CSLR staff and
I conduct analyses of the conflict and change that occur in the process
of realizing critical practices. Through CPR, we theorize transformation
and resistance in view of concepts such as ideological becoming, intertextuality,
and multimodality.
Selected Publications
Davis, K. A. (Ed.). (2005). Critical Language and Literacy Studies: Policies
and Practices in Korea, Japan, and the U.S. (Second Language Studies
Working Paper, 23(2)). Honolulu: University of Hawai’i at Manoa,
Department of Second Language Studies.
http://www.hawaii.edu/sls/uhwpesl/on-line_cat.html
Davis, K. A., Bazzi, S., & Cho, H. (2005). “Where I'm from”:
Transforming Education for Language Minorities in a Public High School
in Hawai‘i. In B. V. Street (Ed.), Literacies Across Educational
Contexts: Mediating Learning and Teaching (pp. 188-212). Philadelphia:
Calson Publishing.
Davis, K. A., Cho, H., Ishida, M., Soria, J., & Bazzi, S. (2005). “It's
Our Kuleana”: A Critical Participatory Approach to Language Minority
Education. In L. Pease-Alvarez & S. R. Schecter (Eds.), Learning,
Teaching, and Community (pp. 3-25). Mahwah, NJL: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Davis, K. A., & Skilton-Sylvester, E. (2004). Looking Back, Taking
Stock, Moving Forward: Investigating Gender in TESOL. TESOL Quarterly,
38(3), 381-404.
Davis, K.A. & E. Skilton-Sylvester (Eds.). (2004). Gender and Language
Education [Special Issue]. TESOL Quarterly, 38(3).
Davis, K. A. (1999). The Sociopolitical Dynamics of Indigenous Language
Maintenance and Loss: A Framework for Language Policy and Planning. In
T. Huebner, & K. A. Davis (Eds.), Sociopolitical Perspectives on
Language Policy and Planning in the U.S.A. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John
Benjamins Publishing Company.
Davis, K. A. (Ed.). (1999). Foreign
Language Teaching and Language Minority Education. SLTCC, NFLRC, Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press.
Davis, K. A., & Henze, R. (1999). Overview of Authenticity and Identity
Issues in Indigenous Language Education. Anthropology and Education Quarterly,
30(1).
Davis, K. A., & Henze, R. (Eds.). (1999). Authenticity and Identity
in Indigenous Language Education [Special Issue]. Anthropology and Education
Quarterly (AEQ)
Huebner, T., & Davis, K. A. (Eds.) (1999). Sociopolitical Perspectives
on Language Policy and Planning in the U.S.A. Amsterdam/Philadelphia:
John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Davis, K. A., & Lazaraton, A. (Eds.). (1995). Qualitative Research
[Special Issue]. TESOL Quarterly, 29(3).
Davis, K. A. (1994). Language Planning in Multilingual Contexts: Policies,
Schools, and Communities in Luxembourg. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John
Benjamins Publishing Company
