Early Career Award 

2010 Recipient
Guofang Li

Guofang Li’s research portrays minority literacy learning as grounded in the lived experiences of minority students and their families, and as understandable only when considered outside discreet curricula and lesson plans. Li’s fine-grained ethnographic work examines a not well-understood dimension of Asian children’s experiences, their home literacy learning, and the ‘communities of difference’ found among urban white, Vietnamese and Sudanese working-class families.  She proposes frameworks of cultural reciprocity— the adoption of new cultural patterns by both mainstream teachers and minority parents— and cultural pedagogy— urban educators’ attention to the interactive social contexts of home, school and community—as pedagogical resources to enhance minority students’ literacy development.

This award is to recognize a scholar who has conducted a distinguished program of cumulative educational research in any field of educational inquiry within the first decade following receipt of their doctoral degree. 

2009 - Michele Moses & Nell K. Duke
2008 - Andrew J. Martin
2007 - Jaekyung Lee
2006 - Kevin G. Welner
2005 - Amanda Datnow
2004 - Geoffrey D. Borman & Janette K. Klingner
2003 - Yong Zhao
2002 - No award presented
2001 - Stanton E.F. Wortham
2000 - Amy Stuart Wells
1999 - Peter Smagorinsky
1998 - Vanessa Siddle-Walker
1997 - Deborah Loewenberg Ball
1996 - Leona Schauble
1995 - Janet Wilde Astington
1994 - Lisa Delpit & Stephen W. Raudenbush
1993 - D. Jean Clandinin
1992 - Judith D. Singer & John B. Willett
1991 - Edward H. Haertel, Magdalene Lampert, Annemarie Palincsar
1990 - Jeannie Oakes
1989 - Kenneth Tobin
1988 - Robert Mislevy
1987 - Noreen M. Webb
1986 - Penelope L. Peterson
1985 - Robert E. Slavin
1984 - Harris M. Cooper