Dr. Lara Handsfield

Professor

Teaching and Learning

Office

DEG Degarmo Hall 315

Office Hours

Upon request

Office Phone

(309) 438-3745office
phone

lhandsf@ilstu.eduemail

Website

https://www.researchgate.net/profil... website

About
Education
Awards & Honors
Research

Biography

Lara Handsfield is Professor of bilingual, literacy, elementary education in the School of Teaching and Learning at Illinois State University. She researches identities and literacy instruction in diverse classrooms.

Current Courses

599.009Dissertation Research

599.007Dissertation Research

204.001Elementary Education: Practices & Issues

574.001Social and Cognitive Theories in Education

319.001Study Of Bilingual/Bicultural Education

Teaching Interests & Areas

Literacy methods, biliteracy, theory, critical issues in diversity in education

Research Interests & Areas

Critical and discourse methodologies, identity processes, classroom discourse, language and literacy, critical participatory action research

PhD Language and Literacy

University of Illinois

Urbana-Champaign

MA Bilingual and Multicultural Education

University of California

Santa Cruz

Outstanding University Researcher Award

Illinois State University

2021

Outstanding Researcher Award

College of Eduation, Illinois State University

2019

Outstanding College Researcher Award

Illinois State University

2018

President's Service Award

Association of Teacher Educators

2018

Book, Authored

Handsfield, L. Literacy theory as practice: Connecting literacy theory and practice in K-12 classrooms. Teachers College Press (2016)

Handsfield, L. Abstract and concrete attitudes among Mexican-descent high school students. University of California, Santa Cruz (1993)

Book, Chapter

Handsfield, L. Continuities of privilege and marginality across space and time: Critical autobiographical narrative in teacher education. Becoming Critical Teacher Educators. Routledge (2017): 70--84.

Conference Proceeding

Handsfield, L. From discontinuity to simultaneity: Mapping the “what ifs” in a classroom literacy event using rhizoanalysis. 56th yearbook of the National Reading Conference 56 (2007): 235.

Journal Article

MacPhee, D., Handsfield, L. & Paugh, P. (2021). Conflict or conversation?: Media portrayals of the science of reading. Reading Research Quarterly.

Hosek, V., & Handsfield, L. Monological practices, authoritative discourses and the missing “C” in digital classroom communities. English Teaching: Practice & Critique (2020)

BazemoreBertrand, S., & Handsfield, L. Show \& Tell: Elementary Teacher Candidates' Perceptions of Teaching in High-Poverty Schools. Multicultural Education 26.3/4 (2019): 27--37.

Beucher, R., Handsfield, L., & Hunt, C. What matter matters? Retaining the critical in new materialist literacy research. Journal of Literacy Research 51.4 (2019): 444-479.

Lysaker, J., & Handsfield, L. Integrative Research Syntheses as Sites of Disruption in Literacy Teacher Education. Journal of Literacy Research 51.2 (2019): 252--258.