Amanda Thein - Publications

Amanda Thein
School of Education
University of Pittsburgh
5112 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
PHONE: 412-648-7194
EMAIL: athein@pitt.edu

* Beach, R., Parks, D., Thein, A.H., & Lensmire, T. (2007). High school students' exploration of class differences in a multicultural literature class. In Van Galen, J., Johnston, W., & Noblit, G. (Eds.) Late to class: Social class and schooling in the new economy. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Beach, R., Thein, A.H., & Parks, D. (2007). High school students’ social worlds: Negotiating identities and allegiances through responding to multicultural literature. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

*Thein, A.H. (2009).Identifying the History and Logic of Negative, Ambivalent, and Positive Responses to Literature: A Case-Study Analysis of Cultural Models. Journal of Literacy Research 41(3).
Thein, A.H., Beach,R., & Parks, D. (2007). Perspective-taking as transformative practice in teaching multicultural literature to white students. English Journal 97(2), 54-60.
Thein, A.H. (2005). A good daughter and an independent woman: Mapping one student’s responses to literature through her negotiations of competing cultural models. In Maloch, B., Hoffman, J., Schallert, D., Fairbanks, C., & Worthy, J. (Eds.), The 54th annual yearbook of the National Reading Conference. Oakcreek, WI: National Reading Conference.