We are pleased to announce that Bob Fecho of The University of Georgia is the winner of the 2002 Alan C. Purves Award for his article “‘Why Are You DoingThis?’: Acknowledging and Transcending Threat in a Critical Inquiry Classroom.”

Considers how gender, identity and literacy are entangled and mutually constitutive. Concludes that social experience, desire, proximate others, and the ways in which children can draw upon these in the classroom are aspects of the situated condition that deserve more prominence in literacy and identity research.