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I have a passion for children, global literacy education, and critical pedagogy.
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ABOUT ME
Author Jen Hatmaker asks, "Who is unseen? Who is left out? Who is marginalized? Whose voice is silenced? Whose story is outside the lines? Who would feel isolated by the primary language spoken here?"
As a classroom teacher, questions like these nagged at me when I examined the structures, rituals, and policies of public schools in the county where I taught, particularly in the context of literacy instruction.
Now, as a Ph.D. student, I've come to believe literacy events in the classroom either enhance or constrain children's social and literate development, and I'd like to be part of "making visible" the ways in which this can potentially occur through discourse, beliefs, and instructional habits. For me, doing this kind of work means building on existing research that explores best practices in critical pedagogy, global competencies, and teacher language.
As a classroom teacher, questions like these nagged at me when I examined the structures, rituals, and policies of public schools in the county where I taught, particularly in the context of literacy instruction.
Now, as a Ph.D. student, I've come to believe literacy events in the classroom either enhance or constrain children's social and literate development, and I'd like to be part of "making visible" the ways in which this can potentially occur through discourse, beliefs, and instructional habits. For me, doing this kind of work means building on existing research that explores best practices in critical pedagogy, global competencies, and teacher language.