Dr. Linda Wason-Ellam is a professor-researcher in the areas of Reading, Children’s Literature, and Cross-cultural Literacy at the University of Saskatchewan,Canada. She has extensive experience in inner-city and intercultural classrooms in the Unit
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Dr. Linda Wason-Ellam is a professor-researcher in the areas of Reading, Children’s Literature, and Cross-cultural Literacy at the University of Saskatchewan,Canada. She has extensive experience in inner-city and intercultural classrooms in the United States, England, Northern Ireland, Finland, Canada and the Arab Gulf States. Her ethnographic research work has lead to publications in scholarly articles, books and book chapters that highlight the social-cultural worlds of young children on their pathways to multiple, multimodal and hybrid literacies. At present, she is working with a project on Revitalizing Reading in Aboriginal band schools widely scattered in remote Northern communities.
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