Alissa Blair Source Confirmed

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Assistant Professor

University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

faculty

4 h-index 24 pubs 190 cited

Research Areas

Teacher Education and Leadership Studies Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods Education Systems and Policy Language Acquisition and Development EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning Racial and Ethnic Identity Research

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OverviewAI-generated summary

Alissa Blair's research focuses on language acquisition and educational practices for multilingual learners. She investigates the development of linguistic resources and classroom conditions that support translanguaging within diverse school ecologies. Her work also examines the principles of systemic functional linguistics and culturally sustaining pedagogy, often employing design-based research methods to integrate these approaches into teacher education coursework. Blair has published on topics including distributed leadership in multilingual school settings and expanding teacher understanding of scaffolding for multilingual students. Additionally, her scholarship includes critical policy discourse analysis, examining the discursive tactics used to perpetuate white normativity in public education through an analysis of anti-CRT policies across multiple states. Blair holds an h-index of 4 with 190 total citations across 24 publications and collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

Metrics

  • h-index: 4
  • Publications: 24
  • Citations: 190

Selected Publications

  • Linguistic resources and classroom conditions for translanguaging in a newly expanding language ecology (2026) DOI
  • Integrating a Functional Approach to Language Development in University Teacher Education Coursework (2025) DOI
  • The discursive tactics of perpetuating white normativity in public education: A critical policy discourse analysis of anti-CRT policies across 18 states (2025) DOI
  • Advancing principles of systemic functional linguistics in responsive graduate teacher education through design-based research (2025) DOI
  • Expanding teacher understanding of scaffolding for multilingual learners using a language-based approach to content instruction (2024) DOI
  • Distributed <i>liderazgo</i> : the making of spaces and leadership structures for a multilingual school ecology (2024) DOI
  • Distributed Liderazgo: The Making of Spaces and Leadership Structures for a Multilingual School Ecology (2023) DOI
  • Using Family-Centered Practices to Increase Language Access for Multilingual Deaf or Hard of Hearing Children (2021) DOI

Collaborators

Researchers in the database who share publications

Christian Z. Goering University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 1 shared publication Jason L. Endacott University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 1 shared publication Mehmet Gültekin University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 1 shared publication Vahide Yiğit‐Gençten University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 1 shared publication Vicki S. Collet University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 1 shared publication

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