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Kari-Lynn Winters | |
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Born | 1969 |
Occupation | Author, university professor |
Genre | Children's literature |
Kari-Lynn Winters, née Moore (born 1969) is a Canadian children's author, playwright, drama educator, and literacy professor. She taught children's literacy, literature, dance and drama education at the University of British Columbia [1] from 2004 to 2009. In 2010, Winters became an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at Brock University (Ontario) and co-editor of Teaching and Learning. [2] She advanced to associate professor in 2014, and to full professor in 2021.[ citation needed]
Winters was born in St. Thomas, Ontario. She holds a teaching degree from the University of Toronto, in regular and special education for children ages 3–13.[ citation needed] She is also a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, where she earned a certificate in technical theatre. [3] Her master's thesis "Developing an Arts-Integrated Narrative Reading Comprehension Program for Less Proficient Grade 3 and 4 Students," on exploring the efficacy of using the arts to strengthen less proficient students' reading comprehension, was selected as best Master's Thesis in Literacy in Canada, 2005. [4] Winters completed her PhD from the University of British Columbia in 2009 with a dissertation entitled "Authorship as Assemblage: Multimodal Literacies of Play, Literature, and Drama." [5] Her dramatic work included writing scripts for and performing with Vancouver's theatre-for-literacy troupes Carousel Theatre and Tickle Trunk Players. [6]
Winters has published numerous children's books, [7] children's non-fiction articles, and academic articles, and has herself won multiple Excellence in Teaching awards [8] and won the St. Catharines Arts Awards 2016 "Emerging Artist Award" and the St. Catharines Arts Educator Award in 2020. [9] [10]
Winters says she didn't always consider herself a writer; many of her elementary school years were spent either resisting composition or struggling to write. [11] Her current work explores how she came to appreciate storytelling and children's literature and eventually became a writer herself, and ways to effect a similar transformation in her students. [12] Winters has been featured in radio and newspaper interviews [13] and her academic work has been cited by other literacy researchers. [14] [15] [16]
From 2010 to 2012 Winters expanded her work to educational activism, from organizing an annual "Arts Matters" educational conference [17] to raising funds for girls' education in Africa. Proceeds from her book Gift Days are being used to support the charity Because I am a Girl, a movement to "unleash" the power of girls and women in the developing world through education and women's rights; [18] at its book launch in November 2012, enough money was raised to send 10 girls to school in Uganda for a year. [19] Her advocacy for arts research and arts-based practices continued throughout the Covid pandemic, including creating a play and film for "What’s Art Got to Do With It? The role of arts and culture in a community’s survival during a global pandemic." [20]
By 2020 she had twenty-nine books published or press. [21]
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Kari-Lynn Winters | |
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Born | 1969 |
Occupation | Author, university professor |
Genre | Children's literature |
Kari-Lynn Winters, née Moore (born 1969) is a Canadian children's author, playwright, drama educator, and literacy professor. She taught children's literacy, literature, dance and drama education at the University of British Columbia [1] from 2004 to 2009. In 2010, Winters became an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at Brock University (Ontario) and co-editor of Teaching and Learning. [2] She advanced to associate professor in 2014, and to full professor in 2021.[ citation needed]
Winters was born in St. Thomas, Ontario. She holds a teaching degree from the University of Toronto, in regular and special education for children ages 3–13.[ citation needed] She is also a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, where she earned a certificate in technical theatre. [3] Her master's thesis "Developing an Arts-Integrated Narrative Reading Comprehension Program for Less Proficient Grade 3 and 4 Students," on exploring the efficacy of using the arts to strengthen less proficient students' reading comprehension, was selected as best Master's Thesis in Literacy in Canada, 2005. [4] Winters completed her PhD from the University of British Columbia in 2009 with a dissertation entitled "Authorship as Assemblage: Multimodal Literacies of Play, Literature, and Drama." [5] Her dramatic work included writing scripts for and performing with Vancouver's theatre-for-literacy troupes Carousel Theatre and Tickle Trunk Players. [6]
Winters has published numerous children's books, [7] children's non-fiction articles, and academic articles, and has herself won multiple Excellence in Teaching awards [8] and won the St. Catharines Arts Awards 2016 "Emerging Artist Award" and the St. Catharines Arts Educator Award in 2020. [9] [10]
Winters says she didn't always consider herself a writer; many of her elementary school years were spent either resisting composition or struggling to write. [11] Her current work explores how she came to appreciate storytelling and children's literature and eventually became a writer herself, and ways to effect a similar transformation in her students. [12] Winters has been featured in radio and newspaper interviews [13] and her academic work has been cited by other literacy researchers. [14] [15] [16]
From 2010 to 2012 Winters expanded her work to educational activism, from organizing an annual "Arts Matters" educational conference [17] to raising funds for girls' education in Africa. Proceeds from her book Gift Days are being used to support the charity Because I am a Girl, a movement to "unleash" the power of girls and women in the developing world through education and women's rights; [18] at its book launch in November 2012, enough money was raised to send 10 girls to school in Uganda for a year. [19] Her advocacy for arts research and arts-based practices continued throughout the Covid pandemic, including creating a play and film for "What’s Art Got to Do With It? The role of arts and culture in a community’s survival during a global pandemic." [20]
By 2020 she had twenty-nine books published or press. [21]
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