Eileen Landay
Adjunct Senior Lecturer
131 Waterman
(401) 863-3367 (phone)
(401) 863-1276 (fax)
Eileen_Landay@brown.edu
Areas of Specialization: Methods of Teaching English, Language and Literacy, Classroom Discourse, Issues of Urban Education.
Description of Research and Teaching Interests: I am currently working on questions such as: What does it mean to be literate in the present-day Western industrialized world? What are the characteristics of academic discourse? What is the relationship between a person's ethnic and linguistic background and his/her experiences learning to write using conventions of academic discourse? What happens when students study their own literacy learning?
Office Hours
Spring 2006Mondays
1:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Degrees
Harvard Graduate School of Education Ed.D., 1994
Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum Environments Learning words and taking tests: Multiple perspectives on the school-based literacy of three urban young adolescents.
Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College M.A., 1985
Carnegie Mellon University B.A., 1957
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2006 -Preface. Engaging Classrooms: Teaching Acts and Student response. Joseph Milner and Mary Graciano, eds. Mellen Press, 2005.
2005 -“Give me MOOR Proof”: Othello in Seventh Grade.” English Journal. September, 2005.
2004 -Performance as the foundation for a secondary school literacy program: A Bakhtinian perspective. Arnetha F. Ball and Sarah Wsarshauer Freedman (eds.) Language, Literacy and learning: Bakhtinian Perspectives,Cambridge University Press, 2004.
2001 -"Postcards from America": Linking Classroom and Community in an ESL Newcomer's Class. English Journal, May 2001.
2001 -Narrative interviews: An approach to studying teaching and learning in English classrooms. High School Journal, February - March 2001.
2001 -The personal inquiry: An example of teacher research in a fifth-year teacher education program. In Milner, J., R. Edelfelt, and P. Wilbur (eds). Developing Teachers: Fifth Year Programs for Outstanding Students. University Press of American, 2001.
1998 -Mutual mentoring: Designing and teaching a linked university/secondary school course on literacy. English Journal vol.88:1, September, 1998.
-A traveler's tale: Possibilities and pitfalls in school reform. (Review of McDonald, (1996). Redesigning School: Lessons for the 21st century. San Fransisco: Jossey-Bass). In English Journal. September, 1997.
-Analysis of Learning Results Surveys. Prepared for the Maine State Board of Education, August, 1995.
-Project Review, Pacesetter English, The College Board. December 1995.
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Literacy theory, literacy and the arts, preparation and professional development of secondary school teachers, teacher research. I am studying collaborations among teachers and arts professionals to crfeate and co-teach literacy curriculum in secondary schools.
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Arts in Education Curriculum Development Literacy Reading Development |
Teacher Education and Certification |
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Courses
EDUC1690 - Literacy, Community and the Arts: Theory into Practice (Theatre, Speech and Dance 169)
EDUC2090 - Literacy Across the Curriculum
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