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Jennifer Rowsell
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Curriculum Vitae

Date: July 17, 2006

Assistant Professor

Coordinator of English Education Program

Co-Director of National Writing Project at Rutgers University

 

EDUCATION

Degrees:

Degree: Ph.D. in Literacy and Language Education

Institution: King’s College London, London, England

Department: Literacy and Language Studies in Education

Year: 2000

Thesis Title: Publishing Practices in Printed Education: British and Canadian Perspectives on Educational Publishing

Degree: Certificate in PublishingInstitute: Ryerson University

Year: 1995-1996

Degree: Masters in English Literature

Institution: University College London, London, England

Department: English Literature Studies

Year: 1994

Thesis Title: Hawthorne’s No Man’s Land

Degree: Teaching English as a Foreign Language Diploma

Institution: Rutgers University in Paris, France

Department: Department of Foreign Languages

Year: 1993

Degree: Honors Bachelor of Arts

Institution: Victoria College, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Department: English Department

Year: 1992

Other Professional Education:

Title: Course in Project Management

Institution: University of Toronto, Continuing Education

Year: Summer of 2001

Title: Course in Multimedia Design

Institution: University of Toronto, Continuing Education

Year: Winter of 2001

EMPLOYMENT

Date: September 2005 –

Role: Assistant Professor of English Education and Coordinator of English Education Program

Co-Director of National Writing Project at Rutgers University

Department: Curriculum & Learning

Institution: Rutgers University, Graduate School of Education

Date: 2004-2005

Role: Full-time Coordinator of Midtown Option

Preservice Cohort of 70 Preservice Candidates

Department: Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

Institution: OISE/UT, University of Toronto

Date: 2003 – 2004

Role: Full-time Coordinator of Campus Option

Preservice Cohort of 61Teacher Candidates

Department: Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

Institution: OISE/UT, University of Toronto

Date: 2002 - 2003

Role: Half-time Contract Instructor

Department: Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

Institution: OISE/University of Toronto

Date: 2001-2002

Role: Part-time Contract Instructor

Department: Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

Institution: OISE/University of Toronto

Date: 1996 – 1997

Role: Project Editor of the Nelson Spelling Program

Company: Thomson Learning

Research

Date: 2004-2005Research: Researcher

SSHRC: Teacher Education for Literacy Teaching

Funding Body: Social Science and Humanities

Research Council of CanadaInstitution: OISE/University of Toronto

Lead Researchers: Clive Beck, Joyce Bainbridge, Shelley Peterson, Clare Kosnik, and Mary Clare Courtland

Date: 2004-2005

Project: In-School and Out-of-School Literacy Practices

Funding Body: School-University Partnership Research Initiative

Institution: OISE/University of TorontoDate: 2003-2004

Role: Research Coordinator and Researcher

Project: A Cross-Cultural ESL Initiative

Funding Body: School-University Partnership Research Initiative

Institution: OISE/University of Toronto

Date: 2001-2002

Role: Educational Researcher on Transfer Grant Funded

Project: The Impact of Curriculum Reform on Teacher Education in Ontario

Funding Body: Ministry of Education

Institution: OISE/University of Toronto

Date: August 2001 – May 2002

Role: Educational Researcher on Ministry of Education Project: A Databank of Reading Interventions, Assessments, and Programs

Funding Body: Ministry of Education

Institution: OISE/University of Toronto

Date: 2000 – 2001

Role: Educational Researcher on OISE/UT

Funded Project: Values Awareness in Secondary School

Department: Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

Institution: OISE/University of Toronto

TEACHING AND SUPERVISION

Graduate Teaching:

Sept. 2005 - Dec. 2005 05: 300: 422 Teaching Literature: Readers, Texts, and Contexts

Jan. 2006 - May 2006 15: 252: 518 Topics in English Education: Incorporating New Literacies

15: 252: 514 Issues of Diversity in Language and Literacy Learning

Sept. 2006 - Dec. 2006 05: 300: 422 Teaching Literature: Readers, Texts, and Contexts

Documenting Multimodal Literacies

July 2, 2003 – August 11, 2003 Instructor: Curriculum, Teaching and Learning 1005, Literacy, Language, and the School Curriculum

Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning

OISE/University of Toronto

Preservice Teaching: 2004 – 2005 OISE/UT Midtown Option

Curriculum & Instruction – Language EDU 1420 – P/J – 39 students

Curriculum & Instruction – Language EDU 1450 – J/I – 31 students

Teacher Education Seminar with Mary-Lynn Tessaro – EDU 6000 – 70 students

Secondary Preservice Teaching: School & Society – EDU 3508

2003 – 2004 OISE/UT Campus Option

Curriculum & Instruction – Language EDU 1420 – P/J – 32 students

Curriculum & Instruction – Language EDU 1420 – J/I – 29 students

Teacher Education Seminar with Judy Blaney – EDU 6000 – 61 students

School & Society with Professor Paul Olson – EDU 3508 – P/J – 32 students

School & Society with Professor Paul Olson – EDU 3508 – J/I – 29 students

2002 – 2003 OISE/UT Campus Option

School & Society – 3508 – P/J Section – 30 students

School & Society – 3508 – J/I Section – 30 students

Teacher Education Seminar – EDU 6000 – 60 students

Curriculum and Instruction – Language EDU 1420 – 60 students

 

2001 – 2002 OISE/UT Campus Option

 

Teacher Education Seminar – EDU 6000 with Judy Blaney – 60 students

Curriculum and Instruction – EDU 1420 Language (occasional teaching with Wayne Fairhead) – 60 students

SUPERVISION

Graduate Supervision

2006 -  Supervisor of Amelia Wolfe, Doctorate of Education, Rutgers GSE

2006 -    Supervisor of Debra Sarfaty, Doctorate of Education, Rutgers GSE

2006 - Supervisor of Sun Hee Kim, Ph.D. in Education, Rutgers GSE

2005 - Supervisor of Sharyn Fisher, Doctorate of Education, Rutgers GSE

2003 – Supervisor of Rita Gravina, Master of Education Student,

OISE/University of Toronto

MRP: Completed May 2005

2003 – Supervisor for Vannina Sztainbok, Campus Option TEPA

Committee Work

2005 - Committee Member on Sandra Abrams Ph.D. Committee

Preservice Supervision

2004-2005 OISE/UT Midtown Option

Supervised 25 Preservice Students during their First Practicum

Supervised 32 Preservice Students during their Second Practicum

2003 – 2004 OISE/UT Campus Option

Supervised 21 Preservice Students during their First Practicum

Supervised 19 Preservice Students during their Second Practicum

 

2002 – 2003 OISE/UT Campus Option

 

Supervised 11 Preservice Students during the First Practicum

Supervised 14 Preservice Students during the Second Practicum

 

2001 – 2002 OISE/UT Campus Option

 

Supervised 8 Preservice Students during the First Practicum

Supervised 10 Preservice Students during the Second Practicum

 

Publications:

Books Authored/Co-Authored: 6

Chapters in Books 5

Articles in Refereed Journals: 3

Articles out for Review with Refereed Journals 1

Book Reviews in Refereed Journals: 2

Grant Reviewing 1

Editor of Journal 1

Papers in Non-Refereed Journals: 2

Report: 1

Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings: 2

Refereed Conference Papers: 7

Non-Refereed Conference Papers: 7

Grants: 2

Books Authored/Co-Authored:

Rowsell, J. (2006). Family Literacy Experiences. Markham: Pembroke Publishers.

Pahl, K. & Rowsell, J. (Eds.) (2006). Travel Notes From The New Literacy Studies. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.

Pahl, K. & Rowsell, J. (2005). Literacy and Education: Understanding the New Literacy Studies in the Classroom. London: Paul Chapman Publishers.

Rowsell, J. (2005). Frame by Frame. Part of a Language Series, Learning Through Literacy, David Booth, Jack Booth & Judith Greene (Eds.) Toronto: Nelson Publishing.

Rowsell, J. (2005). Frame by Frame Teacher’s Guide. Part of a Language Series, Learning Through Literacy, David Booth, Jack Booth & Judith Greene (Eds.) Toronto: Nelson Publishing.

Booth, D. and Rowsell, J. (2002). The Literacy Principal: Supporting, Leading, and Assessing Reading and Writing Programs. Markham: Pembroke Publishers.

Chapters in Books:

Rowsell, J. (Forthcoming). Multiliteracies and Teacher Education. Current Issues in Teacher Education: Responding to Our Critics. New York: Taylor & Francis.

Rowsell, J. (2006). "Improvising on Artistic Habitus: Sedimenting identity into art." In Allan Luke & Jim Albright (Eds.), Literacy Education and Bourdieu. Rahway, NJ: Erlbaum Publishing.

Rowsell, J. (2004). "There is No Place Like Home: A teacher perspective on literacies across educational contexts." In Brian Street (Ed.) Literacies Across Educational Contexts. Philadelphia: Caslon Publishing Inc.

Rowsell, J. (2003). "About Media in Education." In D. Booth & M. Hachiya (Eds.) The Arts Go to School. Markham: Pembroke Publishers.

Rowsell, J. (2000). "Publishing Practices and Personal Perspectives." Home and AwayResearching Familiar and Unfamiliar Cultures.Book publised by King’s College Press, London England.

Articles in Refereed Journals:

Burke, A. & Rowsell, J. (2006). "From Screen to Print: Publishing Multiliteracies Pedagogy." The International Journal of Learning. Victoria: Common Ground Publishers.

Rowsell, J. (2003). "Identities in Progress: Towards a Notion of Modified Habitus." Ways of Knowing, Vol. 1, No.1. pp. 3-15

Rowsell, J. (2003). " Semiotic Consciousness in Educational Textbooks." International Journal of Applied Semiotics. Volume 4, No. 2. pp. 43 – 63.

Rowsell, J. (2003). "The Production-Reception Continuum: Activating publishing practices during literacy events." Changing English, Volume 10, January 2003, pp. 59-71.

Articles out for Review:

Rowsell, J. & Pahl, K. (2005). "Sedimented Identities in Texts: Instances of Practice." Submitted to Reading Research Quarterly.

Reports:

Kosnik, Clare; Beck, Clive; Diamond, Patrick; Kooy, Mary; & Rowsell, Jennifer (2002). "Preservice Teacher Education in Ontario: Trends and Best Practices in an Era of Curriculum Reform." Report produced for the Ministry of Education in Toronto, Ontario. 70 pages

 

Book Reviews in Refereed Journals:

Rowsell, J. (2003). A Review of Norman Fairclough’s Analysing Discourse in Applied Linguistics, January 2004.

Rowsell, J. (2002). A Review of Ron Scollon’s Mediated Discourse: The Nexus of Practice for the British Association for Applied Linguistics Journal, Language at Work. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, Ltd.

Editor of Journal

Rowsell, J. & Booth, D (2005). Literacy Revisited …. Orbit, Vol. 36. October, 2005.

Editorial Advisory Boards

January 2006. Journal of Literacy Research. Published by the National Reading Conference.

Papers in Non-Refereed Journals:

Papers in Non-Refereed Journals:

Rowsell, J. (2005). Editorial Introduction: New Directions in Literacy Education. In Literacy Revisited, Edt. by Jennifer Rowsell & David Booth. Orbit, Volume 36. October 2005.

Rowsell, J. (2000). "Publishing Practices in Printed Education." Literacy Today, a journal published monthly by the British National Literacy Trust. London, England.

Rowsell, J. (2000). "British and Canadian Perspectives on Educational Publishing." King’s English, King’s College Press, London, England.

Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings:

Burke, A. & Rowsell, J. (2005). From Screen to Print: Publishing Multiliteracies Pedagogy. Preconference on Literacy Education at the Canadian Studies in Education Annual Conference.

Rowsell, J. (2000). Texts as Traces of Social Practice (July 4, 2000). Paper given at New Technologies and Socio-Democracies Conference, Institute of Education, London, England.

Rowsell, J. (1999). Publishing Practices and Instructional Models (June, 1999). Paper given at the Multilingualism and Dyslexia Conference, University of Manchester, Manchester, England.

Refereed Conference Papers:

Travelnotes from the New Literacy Studies: Instances of Practice. Chair of Symposium of international speakers at the American Educational Association Annual Conference in San Francisco. April 2006.

Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: Multiliteracies and Literacy Teacher Education. Paper given with Professor Clive Beck at the American Educational Research Association Annual Conference in San Francisco. April 2006.

Mediating Funds of Knowledge in Teacher Education. Participant in Symposium at the Annual International Linguistics Association Conference (AILA) in Madison, Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin-Madison. July 23rd, 2005.

Literacies Across Educational ContextsIntroduction. Chair of Symposium at the Annual International Linguistics Association Conference (AILA) in Madison, Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin-Madison. July 23rd, 2005

Screen Pedagogy: Publishing Multiliteracies Pedagogy. With Anne Burke. The Learning Conference: Multiliteracies 12th Annual Learning Conference. University of Grenada, Grenada, Spain. July 12th, 2005.

From Screen to Print: Publishing Multiliteracies Pedagogy. With Anne Burke. Preconference on Literacy Education at the Canadian Studies in Education Annual Conference. University of Western Ontario, London, ON, May 27th, 2005.

Ministry of Education Forum: Literacy Teacher Education and Multiliteracies with Professor Clare Kosnik and Professor Clive Beck.

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, ON, May 25th, 2005.

Multimodality in the Junior Classroom. Junior Literacy Conference. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, ON, April 8th, 2005.

How does Balanced Literacy fit into a Multiliteracies Framework? United Kingdom Language Arts Conference, Manchester, UK, 2004, July 14th, 2004.

A Teacher’s Perspective on Applying New Literacy Studies in the Classroom. AERA Symposium: Applying the New Literacy Studies in the Classroom (April 2004). Symposium for Writing and Literacies SIG. San Diego, April 16th, 2004.

Executive Exchanges: Enciphering and Deciphering Power in Interview Data with Female Executives. International Pragmatics Conference. Identity and the Construction of Social Identity Panel. Toronto, July 2003.

Impact of Curriculum Reform on Preservice Teacher Education: Teacher Educators’ Response to a New Mandated Curriculum(April, 2003). Paper Session for American Educational Research Association Division K: Section 6: Contexts of Preservice Education.

Linguistic Ethnography as a Lens for Theory and Practice: Tracing Practices in Texts(April, 2002). Symposium presentation for Division G, Section 1: Local Contexts of Teaching and Learning at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans.

Semiotic Consciousness in Educational Textbooks(April, 2001). Invited symposium presentation for the Semiotics in Education Special Interest Group at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Seattle.

Classroom Mediations of Texts(April 2001). Mentoring Roundtable II Session at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Seattle, Washington.

Texts as Traces of Social Practice(July 4, 2000). Paper given at New Technologies and Socio-Democracies Conference, Institute of Education, London, England.

Towards a Theory of Text Production(September, 1999). Paper given at the annual meeting of the British Educational Research Association, University of Sussex, Brighton, England.

Publishing Practices and Instructional Models(June, 1999). Paper given at the Multilingualism and Dyslexia Conference, University of Manchester, Manchester, England.

Non-Refereed Conference Papers

Understanding New Literacy Studies in the Classroom. Guest Lecturer for Larry Swartz’s Language, Literacy, and the School Curriculum Course on May 18th, 2005.

Multiliteracies and Activity Theory. Social-Cultural Research Group. Toronto, OISE/University of Toronto. Seminar held on August 11th, 2004.

Use of Texts in Classroom Sites (March, 2000). Seminar given for King’s College Language and Literacy Group, King’s College, London, England.

Social Semiotics and Pedagogic Texts (November, 1999). Lecture for Master in Classics seminar. King’s College London, England.

Publishing Practices and Personal Perspectives(June, 1999). Paper given at the King’s College Student Research Day, King’s College, London, England.

Literacy and Social Semiotics(February, 1999). Seminar given for the Language and Literacy Group at King’s College, London, England.

The Semiotics of Textbooks (December 14, 1998). Seminar given for students in the Postgraduate Certificate in Teacher Education, King’s College, London, England.

Educational Policy, Publishers, and the National Literacy Strategy(November, 1998). Paper given at the Texts and Practices Conference, University of Southampton, Southampton, England.

Interviewing Techniques in an Ethnographic Research Study(May, 1998). Seminar given at the Language and Literacy Group, King’s College, London, England.

Professional Activities

Date: February 2006

Role:Member of the Family Literacy Committee

Organization:International Reading Association

Date: January 2006

Role:Reviewed Grant

Organization:Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Date: August (2005)

Role: Reviewer

Organization: International Journal of Learning.

Date: July 20th, 2005

Role: Reviewer

Organization: English Studies in Africa

Date: July 22nd, 2005

Role: Reviewer

Organization: Alberta Journal of Education

Date: July 24th, 2005

Role: Reviewer

Organization: Language and Education

Date: June 17th, 2005

Role: Expert Panel television appearance on TVO Education Special

Organization: More to Life television show on TVO

Date: 2004-2005

Role: Committee Member

Committee: Primary/Junior Experience Planning Committee

Date: 2004 – 2005

Role: Committee Member

Committee: Accreditation Committee

Date: 2004-2005

Role: Committee Member

Committee: Appeals Committee

Date: 2003-2004

Role: Liaison on Accreditation Process, Ontario College of Teachers

Department: Associate Dean’s Office

Date: 2003 – 2004

Role: Committee Member

Committee: Bursary Committee

Date: 2002 – 2004

Role: Committee Member

Committee: School-Partnership Committee

 

 

 

 

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