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Marcelle M. Haddix, assistant professor and director of English education programs at Syracuse University, will present “Are You Still Helping That Community? Toward a Publicly Engaged Teacher Education and a Focus on Communities” on Thursday, April 10, from 12:15 to 1:25 in Ketchum Hall 313.

Working from a scholarship-in-action, community-engaged framework, Haddix will discuss ways that notions of communities 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 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, Haddix will highlight the ways that teacher candidates of color define public engagement and what it means for them to work with and within 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.

Across both areas, her talk will articulate new directions for encouraging community building and public engagement in English and literacy teacher education.

Haddix’s scholarly interests center on preparing all teachers for working within urban schools and communities and on increasing racial and linguistic diversity in English teacher education. Her work has been featured in Research in the Teaching of English, English Education, Linguistics and Education, Urban Education, and the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy. She also directs the “Writing Our Lives” project, a program geared toward supporting the writing practices of urban youth within and beyond school contexts.                 

Her talk, part of the Secondary Education Lecture Series, is presented by the SUNY Buffalo State English Education Student Association with support from the School of Arts and Humanities, the School of Education, and the English Department.