News & Notes
Welcome to our two new department members
September 17th, 2009
Jessica Dockter is currently a doctoral candidate in Literacy Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota. She received her B.A. in English from Carleton College and M.A. in Literacy Education from the University of Minnesota. She taught English at a public middle school for eight years. She is currently conducting her dissertation research in an urban public high school. This study focuses on how literacy practices with media and text shape racial identities with an interest in helping students imagine themselves as allies in anti-racist and social justice work. For the Fall Term, she will be co-teaching the Student Teacher Seminar with Professor Deborah Appleman and teaching Introduction to Educational Studies during Winter Term.
Professor Steve Jongewaard teaches full time in the School of Education at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. At Carleton, he is teaching EDU 242: Developing Education Policy for Access and Equity during the Fall Term, 2009. Professor Jongewaard completed his doctoral studies at the University of Minnesota in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in global studies and social studies education. Prior to his working at Hamline he was director of the Model Cities Mini-School in Minneapolis (now the Southside Family School), taught elementary school in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and at two elementary schools in Minneapolis. Professor Jongewaard's research interests are currently focused on the role of public schools in citizenship education, understanding the causes and possible solutions to the achievement gap, and the development of global perspectives in teachers and students. He presented his most recent papers at the annual conferences of the Global Studies Association of the UK and Europe at Oxford-Brookes University, Oxford, UK (September 2008) and the Minnesota Council for the Social Studies (March 2009).
