Phyllis E. Whitin
Office Location & Hours
College of Education #283
313.577.6382
Call 577-0902 to make an appointment.
Responsibilities
Language Arts and Children's Literature Program Area Coordinator
Chair, COE Curriculum Committee
Degrees and Certifications
PhD, Elementary Education, University of South Carolina, 1993
MAT, Elementarty Education, University of New Hampshire, 1972
B.A., Religion, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, 1970
Academic Interests
Elementary Education: Language arts, children's literature
Area of Expertise
Multimodality
Integrated, inquiry-based elementary instruction
Integration of mathematics and language
Research Interest
Interdisplinary inquiry-based learning
Multimodality
Integration of mathematics and language
Awards and Honors
2010
President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, Wayne State University
Recent Publications
Empowering children as critics and composers of multimodal texts
Whitin, P. & Whitin, D. J. (2012) Talking Points 23 2-12
Exploring Gee’s Bend quilts through interdisciplinary Investigations.
Mtichell, R., Whitin, P., & Whitin, D. (January 2012) Art Education 65: 1 25-32
Making Sense of Fractions and Percents
Whitin, D. J. & Whitin, P. (2012) Teaching Children Mathematics 18 490-496
Valuing little steps toward inquiry
Grueber, D. & Whitin, P. (November 2012) Science and Children 50 39-43
Mathematical pattern hunters
Whitin, P. & Whitin, D. J. (2011) Young Children 66 84-90
Investigating critical numeracy within a critical literacy framework
Whitin, P. & Whitin, D. J. (2011) Language Arts Journal of Michigan 27 38-42
Learning to read the numbers: Integrating critical literacy and critical numeracy in k-8 classrooms
Whitin, D. J. & Whitin, P. (2011) New York: Routledge
Tech-to-stretch: Expanding possibilities for literature response
Whitin, P. (2009) The Reading Teacher 62(5) 408-418
Learning to read the numbers: A critical orientation toward statistics
Whitin, P., & Whitin, D. J. (2008) Language Arts 85 (6) 432-441
Learning to solve problems in the primary grades
Whitin, P. & Whitin, D. J. (2008) Teaching Children Mathematics 14 (7) 426-432
The mathematics survey: A tool for assessing attitudes and dispositions
Whitin, P. (2007) Teaching Children Mathematics 13 (8) 426-433
New visions for linking literature and mathematics
Whitin, D. J. & Whitin, P. (2004) Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics; and Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English
Math is language too
Whitin, P. & Whitin, D.J. (2000) Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics; and Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English
Inquiry at the window
Whitin, P. & Whitin, D.J. (1997) Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann
Sketching stories, stretching minds
Whitin, P. (1996) Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann