Peggy Albers
Peggy Albers is a professor of language and literacy education at Georgia State University in the Department of Middle and Secondary Education. Albers is a Fulbright Specialist who conducted literacy-based work in Colombia, and is a Fulbright finalist with focused work in South Africa with children’s literature and literacy.
Albers is the author of five research and practitioner books, has published approximately 110 journal entries, and has delivered nearly 200 keynote and conference papers and workshops at international and national conferences. She has also authored and/or co-authored five books on the integration and practice of the arts in teaching including her most recent book (2017) published by Routledge, Global Conversations in Literacy Research: Critical and Digital Literacies.
Why Stories Matter for Children’s Learning
By Peggy Albers Ever wondered why boys and girls choose particular toys, particular colors and particular stories? Why is it that girls want to dress in pink and to be princesses, or boys want to be Darth Vader, warriors and space adventurers? Stories told to children can make a difference. Scholars have found that stories have a strong influence on …
Reading to Your Child: The Difference it Makes
By Peggy Albers If you are a parent or a teacher, you most probably read stories to young children. Together, you laugh and point at the pictures. You engage them with a few simple questions. And they respond. So what happens to children when they participate in shared reading? Does it make a difference to their learning? If so, what …
