Janette Hughes
Janette Hughes, B.A., B.Ed., M.A.T., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Office: EDU 524
Phone: 905.721.8668 ext. 2875
Email:janette.hughes@uoit.ca
Website: http://faculty.uoit.ca/hughes/
Research Interests
Digital Literacy; New Literacy Studies;Graphic Novels; Virtual Play Worlds; Wikis & Blogs; Performative Affordances of New Media; Infusing the Arts into the Curriculum.
Current projects
Currently Dr.Hughes is primarily focused on two SSHRC-funded projects.
Students, Poetry and New Media explore/show the performative affordances of new media interact with students' creative processes, specifically how students' poetic thinking gets restructured and reorganized as they use new media to create digital poems. The second project,
Students as Performance Mathematicians,
we consider parallels between the arts and mathematics: between what makes for "a favourite book or movie" and what makes for "a favourite math idea or activity". It also leads us to look to the performing arts to understand students' repertoires for organizing and expressing the mathematical ideas they seek to communicate to one another and to their worlds outside of the classroom. Additional research projects focus on critical literacy through new media, graphic novels in the classroom, using wikis to teach reading and writing, and children's discourses in virtual play sites like Club Penguin and Webkinz World.For more details on these research projects please see: http://faculty.uoit.ca/hughes/
Courses Taught
PJ Language Arts Methods
IS English Methods
Digital Literacy
Selected Publications
Books / Chapters
Gadanidis, G.,Hughes, J. & Hoogland, C. (forthcoming).
Teaching and Learning in Web2.0 Environments. Sense Publications.
Gadanidis, G. &Hughes, J. (2008). Performing Mathematics: A Guide for Teachers and Students.Published online at:
http://www.mathfest.ca
Hughes, J. (2007).
Teaching Language & Literacy, K-6. Published online at:
http://faculty.uoit.ca/hughes/eBook.html
Refereed Articles
Hughes,J. & Parliament-John, A. (2009).
From Page to Digital Stage: Creating Digital Performances of Poetry.
Voices From the Middle, 16(3), pp.15-22.
Greig, C. &
Hughes, J. (2009). A boy who would rather write poetry than throw rocks at cats is also considered to be wanting in masculinity: poetry,masculinity, and baiting boys.
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 30(1), pp. 91-105.
Hughes,J. (2008). Poetry and New Media: In Conversation with Four Poets.
Language and Literacy, 10(3).
Hughes,J. (2008). The Performative Pull of Research with New Media.
International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 7(3), pp. 16-34.
Hughes,J. (2008). The "Screen-Size" Art: Using Digital Media to Perform Poetry.
English in Education,42(2), 148-164.
Refereed Conference Proceedings
Hughes, J. & Eldridge, J. (2009). Re-imagining the Teaching of Literacy in a Digital Age.
The International Conference on Education, Honolulu, Hawaii, pp.3465-3470.
Gadanidis, G. &
Hughes, J. (2009). Performing Mathematics: Students as Performance Mathematicians in Grades 2, 5 and 8.
The International Conference on Education, Honolulu, Hawaii, pp. 3545-3553.
Conference Presentations
Hughes, J., King, A. & Fuke, V. (2009).Adolescents & "Autographics": Reading and Writing Coming-of-Age Graphic Novels, Ottawa University, CSSE.
Hughes, J
. & Fuke, V. (2009). But How Do I Mark It?: Analyzing and Evaluating Multimodal Texts, Ottawa University, LLRC.
Hughes, J
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& Eldridge, J. (2009). Re-imagining the Teaching of Literacy in a Digital Age.
The International Conference on Education, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Hughes, J. & Dymoke, S.
(2008). The Road Seldom Taken: Preservice Teachers' Anxieties Around Teaching Poetry.
The European Conference on Educational Research, Goteborg, Sweden, September,2008.
Hughes, J. (2008).Performing Poetry on the Digital Stage
. International Conference on Multimodality and Learning: New Perspectives on Knowledge, Representation and Communication. Institute of Education, University of London, June 2008.
