Listen "Education As Liberation Episode 8"
Episode Synopsis
Representation, Literacies and the Role of the Multilingual Classroom pt. 2
WHBLE founder, Ah-Keisha McCants interviews Lisa Chong, doctoral student at Teachers College, Columbia University, and Adjunct Professor at Rider University. Lisa talks about her background with Asian American literacy, the role of dialogue, building critical consciousness, and the power of diverse literature and texts to engage students in transformative learning.
Lisa Chong lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with her husband and two boys. She has been teaching composition and research writing as an adjunct at Rider University, New Jersey, for the past 14 years and had facilitated book groups for students in 4th to 11th grade for 12 years before entering Teachers College, Columbia University as a doctoral student in 2018. She received an M.A. in English at Arcadia University in 2004 and an M.Ed. in Reading, Writing, Literacy at the University of Pennsylvania in 2017. Her research interests include Asian American adolescents, dialogic discourse/classroom, literacy practices that foster multiculturalism and critical consciousness, and writing & identity.
WHBLE founder, Ah-Keisha McCants interviews Lisa Chong, doctoral student at Teachers College, Columbia University, and Adjunct Professor at Rider University. Lisa talks about her background with Asian American literacy, the role of dialogue, building critical consciousness, and the power of diverse literature and texts to engage students in transformative learning.
Lisa Chong lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with her husband and two boys. She has been teaching composition and research writing as an adjunct at Rider University, New Jersey, for the past 14 years and had facilitated book groups for students in 4th to 11th grade for 12 years before entering Teachers College, Columbia University as a doctoral student in 2018. She received an M.A. in English at Arcadia University in 2004 and an M.Ed. in Reading, Writing, Literacy at the University of Pennsylvania in 2017. Her research interests include Asian American adolescents, dialogic discourse/classroom, literacy practices that foster multiculturalism and critical consciousness, and writing & identity.
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