Dr. David E. Low, associate professor, Kremen School of Education and Human development, and his colleague Dr. Jessica Pandya, dean of CSU Dominguez Hills College of Education, are recipients of the Arthur Applebee Award for Excellence in Research on Literacy. Their article, “Centering Children’s Voices and Purposes in Multimodality Research,” was recognized at the 2023 Annual Literacy Research Association Conference in Atlanta on Nov. 30, marking the first time in the award's history that researchers from non-R1 institutions have been honored.

The article, published in August 2022 in the Journal of Literacy Research, examines how the theorization of semiosis in academic scholarship is disconnected from its conceptualization by children. Analysis of 75 interviews with children about their digital video making demonstrated socially-embedded, age-specific understandings of how semiotic modes operate, as well as when and why children employ them.

Read more about Dr. Low's work and this award at kremenschoolnews.com.