From Antero Garcia, Tomorrow will be the third event as part of the departments speaker series, the Literacies of Contemporary Civic Life. The first two events have been great! Im hoping youll consider attending! Tomorrows speaker is Marcelle Haddix from Syracuse University. We will be in Clark 205 from 5:30-6:30 (followed by a small reception). Marcelles presentation is titled: Are You Still Helping That Community?: Toward a Publicly Engaged Teacher Education and a Focus on Community/ies. Here is a brief description of the talk: Working from a scholarship-in-action, community engaged framework, Marcelle Haddix will discuss ways that notions of community/ies and public engagement are defined and taken up in English and literacy teacher education. Her talk will feature examples from two areas of scholarship. The first area involves a study of the ways students of color navigate the multiple discourse communities they inhabit as preservice teachers and their construction of teacher identities in the current climate of teacher preparation programs. Specifically, Marcelle will highlight the ways that teacher candidates of color define public engagement and what it means for them to work with/in urban schools and communities. The second examines the experiences of secondary English and literacy preservice teachers enrolled in a Teaching Writing Course where students coordinate and facilitate a community writing event for local middle and high school students. In looking across both areas, her talk will articulate new directions for encouraging community building and public engagement in English and literacy teacher education. Marcelle is a fantastic speaker. I hope you will join us! P.S. Next week we have the equally great Patrick Camangian presenting. You wont want to miss that one either!
Posted on: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 00:41:01 +0000
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