College of Education and Health Professions

Christian Z. Goering, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Secondary English/Literacy Education
Curriculum and Instruction

206 Peabody Hall
Phone: 479-575-4270
FAX: 479-575-6676
cgoering@uark.edu

Degrees:

Ph.D., Kansas State University, Curriculum and Instruction, 2007
M.Ed., Kansas State University, Curriculum and Instruction, 2005
B.A., Washburn University, English Education, 2000

Teaching Areas:

•    English/Language Arts Methods
•    Secondary Education
•    Adolescent Literacy
•    Adolescent Literature

Research Interests:

•    Oral reading fluency
•    Social context of literacy events
•    Induction of early career teachers of English/Language Arts
•    Musical intertextuality

Professional Biography:

Chris Goering received a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Kansas State University while teaching courses and supervising student teachers as a graduate teaching assistant under Dr. F. Todd Goodson. Goering also served as a co-director of Youth and Community Programs for the Flint Hills Writing Project, a site of the National Writing Project while in Manhattan. He taught high school English and leadership courses while in Topeka, Kansas. His special interests are helping secondary level students become interested and engaged in writing and reading, using popular music as a motivational tool in the English/Language Arts classroom, and ultimately helping teachers develop literacies in their students.

Job Duties:

Goering will lead a group of students in the University of Arkansas Literacy Outreach Corps this fall who will serve as mentors in a service-learning literacy project at Fayetteville High School.

Academic Interests and Accomplishments:

Goering has authored or co-authored several articles in the fields of English education and has presented at 30 or more regional, national, and international conferences. In 2007, he was invited as a lifetime member of the Kansas Exemplary Educator Network (KEEN) sponsored by the Kansas State Department of Education following the successful completion of National Board Certification for Teachers (2006) in English/Language Arts/Adolescence and Young Adulthood. The National Council of Teachers of English recognized Goering in 2004 as a High School Teacher of Excellence and The Writing Conference named him the Judith C. Gilbert Outstanding Writing Teacher the same year.

Goering founded www.LitTunes.com in November of 2007 as an open access educational outreach initiative dedicated to enhancing and developing adolescents' literacies through popular music and music lyrics. LitTunes hosts essays, research, lesson plans and song to literature connections provided, in part, by stakeholders across the country.

Personal Information:

Dr. Goering enjoys a number of activities outside of his life in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction. He enjoys traveling, riding his antique Harley Davidson, and everything to do with music. Goering plays bass guitar and writes songs for the regional alternative/red dirt country act, the Aaron Traffas Band based out of Manhattan, Kansas. Interested parties might also find him frequenting some local coffee shops with his original music and developing acoustic guitar abilities.
His favorite book is On The Road by Jack Kerouac.

Publications/Presentations:

Goering, C. Z., Jolliffe, D. A., Riley, K., Swanton, H., & Gates, L. (2009). The Arkansas Delta Oral History Project: Understanding Poverty in a Literacy Outreach Project. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Goering. C. Z., & Baker, K. F. (2009). Social context of a struggle: Tenth-graders engaged in oral reading fluency activities in an intervention setting. Proposal submitted for presentation.

Goering, C. Z., Collier, K., Koenig, S., O'berski, J. O., Pierce, S., & Riley, K. (2009). Musical Intertextuality in Action: A Directed Reading of Of Mice and Men. In Michael J. Meyer (Ed.), Essential criticism of Of Mice and Men. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow.

Goering, C. Z. (2009). Open Books, Open Ears, and Open Minds: The Grapes of Wrath, the "Broken Plow," and the LitTunes Approach.  In Michael J. Meyer (Ed.) Dialogue: Reflections on Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Rodopi.

Goering, C. Z., de Verges, S., Marston, L., & Roberts, K. (2008, November) Where are [we] going, where have [we] been?: Contemporary issues surrounding the teaching of book-length literature. Paper presented at the meeting of the Annual Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English, San Antonio, TX.

Goering, C. Z., Baker, K. F., & Medders, J (2008, November). Oral reading fluency in tenth graders identified as poor readers. Poster presented at the annual meeting on the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Chicago, IL.

Goering, C. Z., Oertel, S.E., & Erickson, K. (2008, November) Using popular music, text messaging, and social networking to teacher literature in the 21st Century. Paper presented at the meeting of the Annual Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English, San Antonio, TX.

Goering, C. Z. (2008, November). The fluency project as research primer. Paper presented at the meeting of the Conference on English Education, San Antonio, TX.

Goering, C. Z. (2008, November). Well connected: Scaffolding with popular music to teach canonical literature. Paper presented at the meeting of the Arkansas Curriculum Conference, Little Rock, AR.

Goering, C. Z., McCutcheon, A. L., & Moore, K. X. (2008, November). Detention and retention of the early career English teacher. Paper presented at the meeting of the Arkansas Curriculum Conference, Little Rock, AR.

Goering, C. Z. (2008, October) Using popular music to connect students to literacy rich lives. Workshop presented in conjunction with the Brown Chair in Literacy. Augusta, AR.

Goering, C. Z., & Oertel, S. E. (2008, October). Finding common ground: Strategies for reaching and teaching 21st Century Kids. Paper presented at the meeting of the Jones Institute for Educational Excellence, Emporia, KS.

Goering, C. Z. (2008). Schizo-curricular: 'But come back next year.' Secondary English. www.secondaryenglish.com/schizo%20curricular.htm

Goering, C. Z, & Oertel, S. E. (2008, July). Tunes, texts, and social networks as engaging literacy practices in the teaching of literature. Paper presented at the meeting of the Whole Language Conference, Tuscon, AZ, Summer 2008.

Goering, C. Z., & Copeland, M. D. (2008). The detention and retention of the English teacher. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Goering, C. Z., Goodson, T., & Copeland, M. D. (2008). How to survive the first years of teaching English. Kansas English, 92 (1), 153-160.

Goering, C. Z. (December, 2007). [Review of Adolescent literacy: Turning promise into practice.] Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy. 51 (4), 436-441.

Goering, C. Z., Caswell, R. & Oertel, S. (2007, November). Connecting in their context: Practical methods of using adolescent's literacies to teach English today. Paper presented at the meeting of the Annual Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), New York, NY.

Goering, C. Z. (2007, November). Dramatic oral reading fluency activities in the secondary classroom. Paper presented at the meeting of the Arkansas Curriculum Conference, Little Rock, AR. 1 November 2007.

Goering, C. Z., Applegate, S., Avery, A. N., & Marston, L. (2007, November). Adolescent literacy through adolescent literature?  Paper presented at the meeting of the Arkansas Curriculum Conference, Little Rock, AR: 1 November 2007

Goering, C. Z. (2007, November). What are the conditions that promote dramatic oral reading fluency in a high school classroom? Paper presented at the meeting of the Annual Conference of the Kansas Association of Teachers of English, Wichita, KS.

Goering, C. Z. (2007, November). “'This ain't no ghetto class:' A study of the social context of ninth graders' participation in oral reading fluency activities.” Paper presented at the meeting of the Mid South Educational Research Association's Annual Conference, Hot Springs, AR: 9 November 2007

Goodson, T., & Goering, C. Z. (2007, May) Where service learning meets scholarship: The fluency project. Paper presented at the meeting of the Annual Convention of the International Reading Association, Toronto.

Goering, C. Z. (2007, April). Cool capital: Social context of dramatic oral reading fluency in the high school classroom. Paper presented at the meeting of the 12th Annual Graduate Research Forum, Manhattan, KS.

Goering, C. Z. (2007). Interviewing the interviewer: Talking with Robert Lipsyte. ALAN Review. 34 (2), 52-58.

Goering, C. Z., Caswell, R. & Sitomer, A. (2006, November) Reading literature ‘with a little help from' contemporary music. Paper presented at the meeting of the Annual Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English, Nashville, TN.

Goering, C. Z., Armstrong, E., Brady, J, Hill, E, & Oertel, S. (2006, October). Discovering the courage within: Surviving and thriving as an early career teacher. Paper presented at the meeting of the Annual Conference of the Kansas Association of Teachers of English, Wichita, KS.

Goodson, T., Caswell, R., Goering, C. Z., Goodson, L., & Witte, S. (2005, November) With coaching from a veteran teacher, methods students become involved in after school writing clubs, family writing, talkback, and fluency for struggling readers: The fluency project: Oral interpretation of literature with at-risk high school students. Paper presented at the meeting of the Annual Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English, Pittsburg, PA.

Copeland, M. & Goering, C. Z. (2005, July). Socratic circles: Empowering the voices of democracy. Paper presented at the meeting of the Whole Language Umbrella's Literacies for All Summer Institute, San Diego, CA.

Goering, C. Z. (2004). Music and the personal narrative: The dual track to meaningful writing. The NWP [National Writing Project] Quarterly, 26 (4), 11-17.

Copeland, M. & Goering. C. Z. (2003). Blues you can use: Teaching the Faust theme through music, literature, and film. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 46 (5), 436-441.