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William Stokes

Dr. Stokes directs the Educational Studies Doctoral Programs in the Graduate School of Education.

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Professional Title:  Professor
Areas of Academic Focus and Expertise:  
Linguistics, language acquisition, literacy research, critical literacy
Area of Work and Concentration at Lesley:  
Educational studies; educational research; literacy.
Education:  Ed.D., Boston University; M.Ed., Boston University; B.A., State University of New York, Stony Brook
Representative List of Recent Publications / Exhibitions:  

  • Disciplined Inquiry: The philosophy and science of educational research. (2007-2008), manuscript.
  • Literacy. (2008) Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology. Los Angles: Sage Publications
  • Review of The American Way of Spelling: The structure and origins of American English orthography. By Richard Venezky, Guilford Press, 1999. Review appeared in Currents in Literacy, Spring 2000.
  • Solange de Azambuja Lira, Maria de Lourdes B. Serpa and William T. Stokes (1999), Bilingual Education and the Law, Journal of Pedagogy, Pluralism and Practice.
  • Inside the MCAS: A Close Reading of the Fourth Grade Language Arts Test for Massachusetts. Currents in Literacy, Spring 1999.
  • How Do Children Learn to Read? Evidence from Decades of Research. In Voices on Word Matters. Pinnell and Fountas (Eds.). Heinemann, 1999.
  • Untangling the Knots of Linguistic Diversity in Our Schools, The Journal of the Learning Disabilities Association of Massachusetts, Volume 7, Fall, 1997, with Maria de Lourdes Serpa.
  • Mentoring the Mentor: A Critical Dialogue with Paulo Freire, Jim Fraser, Donaldo Macedo, Tanya McKinnon and William Stokes, editors, NY: Peter Lang, 1997.

Dr. Stokes is director of the School of Education's Educational Studies Doctoral Programs. He has also served as the School of Education's interim dean, director of the School's Research, Evaluation, and Assessment Division, Lesley University's Dean of Faculty, and professor. As director of the Hood Children's Literacy Project, Dr. Stokes was principal investigator and grant administrator. With Irene Fountas, he was director of the Literacy Institute, whose emphasis was on emergent literacy and developmental, progressive education. He has also served as co-editor of the Journal of Pedagogy, Pluralism and Practice.
wstokes@lesley.edu

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