David Richard Olson fonds

Inventory list
Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
B2017-0034/016(07) “The triumph of hope over experience in the search for ‘what works’: A response to Slavin.” Educational Researcher, 33. (2004): 24-26 File 2004
B2017-0034/016(08) Olson, D.R., Cole, M. (2006) Culture, technology and history: Implications of the work of Jack Goody. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Correspondence, guidelines File 2004-2006
B2017-0034/016(09) “Shaping literacy policy: From abstract ideals to accountable practices.” In N. Basica, A. Cumming, A. Datnow, K. Leithwood, D. Livingstone (Eds.) International Handbook of Educational Policy. New York: Springer. 2005 File 2004-2005
B2017-0034/016(10) “The computational mind and the digitized society. A question of rules.” Explorations in Media Ecology, 4. (2005): 3-10 File 2004-2005
B2017-0034/016(11) “Becoming responsible for who we are: The trouble with traits.” In Howard Gardner under fire: A rebel psychologist faces his critics (pp. 39-44) Chicago: Open Court. 2006 File 2006
B2017-0034/016(12) Olson, D.R., Bloome, D., Dyson, A. H., Gee, J.P., Purcell-Gates, V., Wells, G. (2006) “Orality and Literacy: A Symposium in Honor of David Olson.” Research in the Teaching of English. 41, 2, 136-179 File 2006
B2017-0034/016(13) “The Natural History of Pedagogy.” In D. Berliner, H. Kupermintz (Eds.) Fostering Change in Institutions, Environments, and People. New York: Routledge. 2009. Draft File 2006-2009
B2017-0034/016(14) “Whatever happened to the ‘Toronto School’.” In R. Watson & M. Blondheim (Eds.) The Toronto School of Communication Theory (pp. 254-260), Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2007 File 2007
B2017-0034/016(15) Horowitz, R. and Olson, D.R. (2007) “Texts that talk.” In R. Horowitz (Ed.) Talking texts: Knowing the world through instructional discourse (pp. 55-90) Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum File 2007
B2017-0034/016(16) “The self-ascription of intention: Responsibility, obligation and self-control.” Synthese, 159 (2007): 297-314 File 2007
B2017-0034/016(17) Olson, D.R., Torrance, N. (2009) “Introduction.” In D. Olson, N. Torrance (Eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Literacy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press File 2009
B2017-0034/016(18) “Writing.” In Art, image, language and culture. Research Institute on Communication and Languages, University of Lisbon, Portugal and the Coa Museum of Paleolithic Art. 2009 File 2009
B2017-0034/016(19) “Unwilling or unable: The puzzle of responsibility in education and educational failure.” Draft. File 2011
B2017-0034/016(20) Kamawar, D. & Olson, D.R. (2011) “Thinking about representations: The case of opaque contexts.” Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 108, 734-746 File 2011
B2017-0034/016(21) “Writing systems, language production and modes of rationality.” In M. Goldrick & M. Miozzo (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Language Production. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2012 File 2012
B2017-0034/016(22) Pragmatics and Cognition Special Issue. Edited by D.R. Olson (guest editor) and Marcelo Dascal, Vol. 21(3). List of contributors, call for papers, etc. File 2013
B2017-0034/016(23) Olson, D.R., Astington, J.W. (2013) “Preschool children conflate pragmatic agreement and semantic truth.” First Language, 33(6), 617-627 File 2013
B2017-0034/016(24) Olson, D.R., Oatley, K. (2013) “Literacy and thought: The quotation theory of writing.” Written Communication, 31(1), 4-26 File 2013
B2017-0034/016(25) The Mind on Paper. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2016. Agreement, royalties statements, book launch poster File 2015
B2017-0034/016(26) “The correction line: The making of an academic mind.” Draft. File 2017
B2017-0034/016(27) Society for Research in Child Development Newsletter. January 2017 File 2017
B2017-0034/016(28) “Why reading is a metalinguistic activity.” Draft File n.d.
B2017-0034/016(29) “Metacognition and Normativity.” Unpublished. File n.d.
B2017-0034/016(30) Bell, Barbara, Torrance, Nancy, Olson, David. “Analysis of cohesion in oral conventional discourse in first grade children.” Draft. File n.d.
B2017-0034/017(01) Bialystok, E., Olson, D.R. “Memory for Sentences and events.” Draft. File n.d.
B2017-0034/017(02) “The Role of Context in Children’s Comprehension of Negative Statements.” Draft. File n.d.
B2017-0034/017(03) “The notation tank.” Draft. File n.d.
B2017-0034/017(04) Untitled Olson manuscripts on negation, literal meaning File n.d.
4 Addresses Series 1963-2016
B2017-0034/017(05) Speaking, Literacy, and Speaking about Literacy. AERA Annual Meeting. Montreal, Quebec. Session sheet File n.d.
B2017-0034/001P(12) Minds in the Making: A Conference Uniting Psychology and Education File n.d.
B2017-0034/017(06) What Can Psychology Contribute to Education? Simon Fraser University – Faculty of Education. Event poster. File n.d.
B2017-0034/017(07) The Preface to Rebellion. Paper presented to graduating class of Western Christian College. Weyburn, Saskatchewan. May 1963 File 1963
B2017-0034/017(08) Frank Smith & David Olson seminar (notes, articles, schedule) File 1968-1969
B2017-0034/017(09) Aspects of a Theory of Instruction. Guest lecture given to a Stanford class, Stanford University, Stanford, CA File 1969
B2017-0034/017(10) On a theory of instruction: Why different forms of instruction result in the same knowledge. Paper presented at the International Symposium on the Problems of suggestology, Varna, Bulgaria. June 1971 File 1971
B2017-0034/017(11) Proving the Whorfian Hypothesis with octopi, white rats, and children: the perception and lexical representation of obliques. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Psychology, Tokyo, August 1972 File 1972
B2017-0034/017(12) Some Considerations for the Study of Literacy. Paper presented at SSHRC Workshop: Language and Literacy in Canada. Toronto, On. October 1979 File 1979
B2017-0034/017(13) On the meaning of words. Paper presented in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. March 1979 File 1979
B2017-0034/017(14) A conceptual revolution in the early school years: Learning to differentiate intended meaning from the meaning in the text. Paper presented to the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development Conference. August 1981 File 1981
B2017-0034/017(15) Program, notice of grant, list of speakers for the Tenth World Congress on Sociology, Mexico City. File 1982
B2017-0034/017(16) Tribute to Marshall McLuhan. Canadian Communication Association. Ottawa, ON. June 1982. Conference Program File 1982
B2017-0034/017(17) Developing Semiotics: Some Cognitive Dimensions of Literacy. Presented to the Toronto Semiotic Circle, 4 December 1982 File 1982
B2017-0034/017(18) Children and Television Conference. Speaker List File 1982
B2017-0034/017(19) Culture and Technology Seminar: The Case for Neurocultural Research. St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto. Toronto, Ontario. May 1982. Seminar program File 1982
B2017-0034/017(20) Metaphor: Recent Directions in Research Symposium. Proposal File 1982
B2017-0034/017(21) Children’s Acquisition of Metalinguistic and Metacognitive Verbs. Event Poster File 1982
B2017-0034/017(22) Academic Freedom in Canada. Conference schedule File 1983
B2017-0034/017(23) Interpreting Texts and Interpreting Nature: Some Aspects of the Relation between Literacy and Thought. Paper presented at the Faculty of Educational Studies, State University of New York & Buffalo. December 7, 1984. Event Poster File 1984
B2017-0034/017(24) Conceptions of Literacy. Paper presented to the Ministry of Education, Australia. October 1987. Event Poster File 1987