Ronna Mosher

PhD

Positions

Assistant Professor

Werklund School of Education, Specialization, Curriculum and Learning

Contact information

rhmosher@ucalgary.ca

For media enquiries, contact

Clayton MacGillivray
Content and Media Specialist

Email: clmacgil@ucalgary.ca
Twitter: @UCalgaryEduc

Background

Educational Background

Doctor of Philosophy , University of Calgary, 2007

M.A. , University of Calgary, 1999

Bach of Education , University of Calgary, 1984

Research

Areas of Research

Interests:

Curriculum studies
Classroom practice
Language Arts and Literacy education
Teacher theorizing
Posthuman studies
Interpretive inquiry

Participation in university strategic initiatives

Human Dynamics in a Changing World (2015-2021)

Courses

Course number	Course title	Semester
EDUC 435	Literacy, Language and Culture	Fall 2023
EDER 711	Adv Research Methodologies I	Fall 2022, 2023
EDER 693.11	Uncovering the Curriculum	Summer 2021, 2022, 2024

Projects

Playful(l) Literacies: Language and Literacy Learning in the Early Elementary Years

A SSHRC Insight Development Grant exploring playful(l) language and literacy learning in Alberta Gr. 1 and 2 classrooms.

Play and Early Literacy Learning in the Community

A collaborative community project with a focus on the ways different understandings of play may contribute to learning before and as children enter school.

Publications

Journal articles

Boxed in and-and busting out: Playing in the borderlands of literacy education. . Mosher, R., & Lenters, K. . Language & Literacy. (2024)
Gopher tales: Re/storying for re/worlding. Lenters, K., & Mosher, R.. Reading Research Quarterly. (2024)
Seeking kinship relationality in a play-based community literacy program. MacDonald, J., Lenters, K., & Mosher, R.. Children's Geographies. (2024)
Play and literacy learning in Grades 1 and 2: An exploratory study of teacher perspectives. Mosher, R., Lenters, K., & Boss, H.. Alberta Journal of Educational Research. (2023)
Unsettling childhood literacies: Contamination as collaboration in transmedia encounters. Lenters, K., Mosher, R., & Hanzel, S.. Unsettling childhood literacies: Contamination as collaboration in transmedia encounters. (2023)
Playing the story: Learning with young children’s in/visible composing collaborations in outdoor narrative play. Lenters, K., Mosher, R., & MacDonald, J.. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy. (2022)
Teaching, learning, and the public: Interpretations of teachers’ classroom images. Interchange. Mosher, R.. Interchange. (2022)
Running around in the story: Un/raveling compositions of narrative play. Mosher, R., Lenters, K., & MacDonald, J.. Journal of Literacy Research. 80-100. (2025)
Playing with Story Workshop in the literacy classroom. Lenters, K., Mosher, R., & Hanzel, S.. The Reading Teacher. (2025)