Curriculum and Teaching Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Dialogue as Black Contemplative Practice
(The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, 2022-04-19)Across space, time, and texts, I have engaged in contemplative dialogue with the writings of four writers—Black feminist poet Audre Lorde; Chicana poet Gloria Anzaldúa; artist, activist, and community healer Tricia Hersey; ... -
Con Artist: Non-Cosplay Participation at Popular Culture Conventions as an Arts-Based Method of Inquiring Into Resistance and the Undoing of Rules
(SAGE Publications, 2023-05-18)I conduct an inquiry into my participation as an African American woman at two popular culture conventions, the 2017 Dragon Con (Atlanta) and the 2018 annual general meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America ... -
Virtual Teaching in the Time of COVID-19: Rethinking Our WEIRD Pedagogical Commitments to Teacher Education
(Frontiers Media, 2020-12-03)Teacher Educators confront a professional future in which online instruction will play an increased role in student learning. As instructional activities are delivered online, a critical challenge for teacher educators ... -
Mathematics Student Teachers’ Views and Choices about Teaching and Textbooks in Middle and High School Classrooms
(2020)A survey of 80 United States middle and high school mathematics student teachers gathered data on availability and use of textbooks and traditional and technology-supported instructional strategies. Findings about textbooks ... -
Survey data of foreign language learners' enjoyment and anxiety in the U.S.
(Elsevier, 2020-01-31)The data derive from a survey collected from 182 bilingual and multilingual speakers who are foreign language speakers from six language groups, including Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, French, and Russian. ... -
The Use of Viber in Enhancing the Vocabulary Skills of Ethiopian Undergraduate Students: The Case of St. Mary’s University
(2017)In this era of technology, it is believed that English language learning has been made more accessible and easier for those who are interested to learn it. Part of utilizing today’s technology includes using a smart phone, ... -
The Quest for Refugee Higher Education in Ethiopia: The Case of Self-financing Eritreans
(Open University, 2019-05)This study examines the challenges of Eritrean refugees attending their tertiary education in selected private medical colleges in Ethiopia, and the support schemes available to help them cope with their problems. The ... -
The Effect of Socioscientific Topics on Discourse within an Online Game Designed to Engage Middle School Students in Scientific Argumentation
(DergiPark, 2017)The purpose of this study was to investigate the types of argumentation discourse displayed by students when they engaged in chat as part of an online multiplayer game about both socioscientific and scientific topics. ... -
Trauma, Harry Potter, and the Demented World of Academia
(University of Calgary, 2018)The following text presents my personal experience of psychological trauma as part of regular and ongoing processes of institutional (re)socialization into academe as a pre-tenure faculty member of color. In giving voice ... -
The problematization of racial/ethnic minority student participation in U.S. study abroad
(De Gruyter, 2013-10)Within U.S. higher education, there has been concern expressed about the underrepresentation of racial/ethnic minority students in U.S. study abroad programs. Though as a whole these students participate in study abroad ... -
Dialogic Ground: The Use of 'Teaching Dilemmas' with Prospective Teachers
(Buffalo State University, 2017)This article describes a method of storytelling that can assist novice teachers in moving toward “re-seeing” their stories of teaching not just as narratives of experience, but as sites for work to be done. The assignment ... -
How English Language Arts Teachers Are Prepared for Twenty-First-Century Classrooms: Results of a National Study
(National Council of Teachers of English, 2017-04)A national study of English teacher preparation in U.S. colleges and universities revealed that faculty address changes in content and context salient to English education, particu- larly curricular, demographic, ... -
Even Cinderella Is White: (Re)Centering Black Girls’ Voices as Literacies of Resistance
(National Council of Teachers of English, 2018-07)The authors describe using counter fairy tales to (re)center the voices of Black girls as literacies of resistance in English education. -
Review of the Book The Unspeakable: Narratives of Trauma, M. Stroinska, V. Cecchetto, K. Szymanski
(The Linguist LIst, 2015-08-26)The Unspeakable: Narratives of Trauma (henceforth, Unspeakable) is an edited collection of 14 papers drawn from and inspired by “Exploring the Edge of Trauma” (Kingston University, London, UK, May 2010) -- an international ... -
Girl Talk: A Dialogic Approach to Oral Narrative Storytelling Analysis in English As a Foreign Language Research
(The University of Arizona, 2014)Research in the fields of Applied Linguistics (AL) and Second Language Studies (SLS) has begun addressing the ways in which second and foreign language (L2) use is a “material” struggle to understand, acquire and author ... -
A Dialogic Approach to Supervisions in the Practicum
(Association of Teacher Educators - Kansas, 2016)The term “dialogue” in research on classroom talk between student(s)teacher is frequently referenced in teaching and teacher education. Yet, there is considerable difference in how the concept is understood. Moreover, ... -
Words As Weapons: The Metaphorical Attack of Michelle Obama in US Print Headlines
(The University of Texas at Austin, 2009)It has been suggested that media coverage of Michelle Obama during the months leading up to the November 2008 US Presidential election in which her husband Barack Obama was a candidate, was at times unfair and biased, ... -
“I Love this Approach, But Find It Difficult to Jump in with Two Feet!” Teachers’ Perceived Challenges of Employing Critical Literacy
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2015-05-28)Accompanying myriad definitions of critical literacy is an absence of pedagogical models for implementing critical literacy in teacher education contexts. This action research explores critical literacy with pre-service ... -
Logging In: Connecting with Secondary Students Online
(National Council of Teachers of English, 2012)“Speaking My Mind” invites readers to speak out about controversial issues relevant to the teaching of English language arts.
