Jenifer J. Schneider
Dr. Jenifer Jasinski Schneider’s research focuses on arts-based approaches to literacy education in which aspects of process drama and children’s literature support children’s symbolic development and meaning-making strategies. Through community-engaged projects and design-based experiments, Jenifer’s research addresses the changing set of strategies that children use to compose and communicate through print-based and multimodal texts. For 20 years, Dr. Schneider was the Director of an annual literature conference for children and her work with authors, illustrators, and children led to the development of The Inside, Outside, & Upside Downs of Children’s Literature, an open-access, ebook that explores critical issues in children’s and young adult literature through extended discourse and integrated digital resources. The book has over 80,000 downloads. She is also the lead author and curator of the Multimodal Data Analysis Collection through the USF Library. This collection of products demonstrates different methodologies for analyzing multimodal texts, at the interstices of literature, art, communication, theatre, film studies, and education. Jenifer’s interest in children’s literature led to a Fulbright Scholar Award in Ireland, where she studied Irish children’s literature and reading programs and family literacy initiatives across different Irish community contexts at the Waterford Institute of Technology. Dr. Schneider is currently engaged in a series of design-based studies in which she explores children’s composing strategies, digital literacies, and pre-service teacher’s instructional development through community-engaged experiences. Jenifer is a Professor of Literacy Studies at the University of South Florida.
Book: The Inside, Outside, and Upside Downs of Children’s Literature
To cite this episode: Persohn, L. (Host). (2020, Dec. 8). A conversation with Jenifer J. Schneider. (Season 1, No. 5) [Audio podcast episode]. In Classroom Caffeine Podcast series. https://www.classroomcaffeine.com/episodes. DOI: 10.5240/51B0-2F56-5332-91AA-43C5-E
