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Scholarly Accomplishments April 2025
BU Wheelock presents the following faculty publications, presentations, and awards for March 2025. Awards Anthony Abraham Jack For Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the PriceProse Book Award for Education Theory and Practice2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award, Finalist for Education by Foreword Reviews Books Mary Churchill Churchill, M. L. […]
BU Wheelock Scholarly Accomplishments March 2025
BU Wheelock presents the following faculty publications, presentations, and awards for March 2025. Books and Book Chapters Anna Lim Lim, A. (2024). Immigrant deaf students of color: On the axes of accommodation, acculturation, and racialization. In C. M. Leider, C. L. Dobbs, & E. Nerlino (Eds.), Preparing antiracist teachers: Fostering antiracism and equity in teacher […]
Why BU Wheelock Changed Its English Education MAT Degree
Future English educators enrolled in BU Wheelock’s master of arts in teaching (MAT) program can now do much more than prepare to teach writing, composition, and literature at middle and high school levels. Changes to the program will also prepare them to be teachers that acknowledge past injustices, promote cultural inclusion and diversity, and expand […]
BU Wheelock Scholars Earn Postdoctoral Fellowships
Two members of the BU Wheelock community were recently honored with postdoctoral fellowships from National Academy of Education. Davena Jackson, an assistant professor of urban education with a focus on English education, language and literacy, was named an NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow and will use her award to advance her work promoting educational equity. Postdoctoral fellow […]
Leading an Antiracist Classroom
Critical race theory. Over the past two years, the term has made its way into the mainstream, popping up in political campaigns, on cable news programs, and at school board meetings. Furor over the alleged teaching of critical race theory in America’s public schools has thrust a graduate-level field of study into the national lexicon. […]
BU Wheelock Welcomes New Faculty Members
BU Wheelock was joined this fall by several new faculty members. Davena Jackson Clinical Assistant Professor, English Education Davena Jackson joins BU Wheelock from Michigan State University, where she completed her PhD in Curriculum, Instruction & Teacher Education. Her dissertation is titled “Black Symmetry: Carving Out a Black Space in an Eleventh-Grade English Class.” Jackson’s […]