In this presentation, Catherine Compton-Lilly explores Adam’s engagement with transglobal flows of information and activity, his growing transglobal awareness of the world, and the consequences of these experiences. She argues that transglobal flows create powerful opportunities for learning that are less available to children raised in mono-national, mono-cultural, and monoliterate spaces. In doing so, Compton-Lilly contributes to a growing body of work that highlights the knowledge, literacies, and understandings that children in transglobal families bring to classrooms. 

About Catherine Compton-Lilly

Catherine Compton-Lilly, Ed.D., is the John C. Hungerpiller professor at the University of South Carolina. Her research focuses on family literacy practices, particularly the literacy practices occurring in a wide variety of families. She has been successful documenting the rich literacy practices of children from communities that have been underserved by schools through longitudinal research methods. With colleagues, she has published important reviews of family literacy scholarship in the Reading Research Quarterly  (Compton-Lilly, Rogers, & Ellison Lewis, 2012, 2020) and has written multiple books on the subject, most recently Children in Immigrant Families Becoming Literate (Compton-Lilly, 2022). Compton-Lilly is a member of the Reading Hall of Fame.