SALISBURY, MD—Faculty in Salisbury University’s Samuel W. and Marilyn C. Seidel School of Education recently earned the following honors:
Dr. Shanetia Clark, associate chair of the Early and Elementary Education Department, was elected to the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Assembly on Literature for Adolescents (ALAN) board of directors for a three-year term. The assembly promotes communication and cooperation among educators with special interests in adolescent literature.
Dr. Cathrene Connery, associate professor of early and elementary education, edited the second edition of Vygotsky and Creativity: A Cultural-Historical Approach to Play, Meaning Making and the Arts. The book explores children’s and adults’ engagement in play and the arts based on the research of 20th-century psychologist Lev Semionovich in cultural-historical activity theory.
Dr. Heather Porter, assistant director of the Center for Student Achievement and also a recent recent graduate of SU’s Doctoral Studies in Literacy program, earned the Journal of College Reading and Learning’s Cynthia L. Peterson Outstanding Article Award for 2018. She was honored for her article “Constructing an Understanding of Undergraduate Disciplinary Reading: An Analysis of Contemporary Scholarship.”
Dr. Thea Williamson, assistant professor in the Doctoral Studies in Literacy program, received a $2,500 English Language Arts Teacher Educators (ELATE) Research Initiative Grant for the project “Understanding Youth Literacy Identity,” for which she serves as co-principal investigator. Williamson and Kira LeeKeenan of the University of Texas at Austin seek to empower middle school students to assess their own learning and affect the ways their teachers develop curriculum.
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