Professor
mary [dot] maguire [at] mcgill [dot] ca (E-mail)
Phone: 514-398-2183
Room 405, Education Building
Areas of interest
- Multiple & multilingual literacies
- Ethnographic and qualitative research
- Multicultural/multilingual identity construction
- Heritage language contexts/schools, diaspora
- Third space, multiple discourses. inter-cultural education
Description of research/teaching activities
My research explores multilingual children’s agency, identity construction and negotiation of multiple literacies in multicultural contexts. This builds from previous studies of multilingual literacy practices, discourses, children’s voices and texts. It supports my teaching of multilingual literacies and qualitative / ethnographic research. I am a collaborator on a Major Initiatives SSHRC grant and a member of a group exploring Shakespeare’s Cariolanus and what it teaches about citizenship and social agency.
Selected publications/presentations
Maguire, M.H. (2005) What if you talked to me? I could be interesting! Ethical considerations in engaging with bilingual/multilingual child participants in human inquiry. Forum Qualitative Social Research/Sozialforschung. 6(4) Art. 4. Link
Maguire, M.H, Beer, A.J., Attarian, H., Baygin, D., Curdt-Christiansen, X.L., Yoshida, R. (2005) The chameleon character of multilingual literacy portraits: Re-searching in heritage language places and spaces. In Anderson, J., Kendrick, M., Rogers, T., Symthe, S., (Eds.) Portraits of Literacy Across Families, Communities and Schools. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. 141-170.
Maguire, M.H. (2005) Identity and agency in primary children’s cultural worlds: Third space. In Cohen, J.; McAlister, K.T., Ralstad, K., & MacSwan, J. Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 1423-1445.
Maguire, M.H., & Graves, B. (2001). Speaking personalities in primary school children’s L2 writing. TESOL Quarterly, 35, 561-593.
Maguire, M.H. (1999). A bilingual child’s discourse choices and voices: Lessons in listening, noticing and understanding. In E. Franklin (ed.), Reading and writing in more than one language: Lessons from teachers (pp. 115-150). Alexandria, VA: Teachers of English and Speakers of Other Languages.