CURRENTS: Humanities Work Now
Sarah Shin & Rachel Carter
Wednesday, October 21, 2015 · 12 - 1 PM
The Dresher Center’s CURRENTS: Humanities Work Now lunchtime series showcases exciting new faculty work in a dynamic and interdisciplinary setting. Designed to promote ongoing conversation and multi-disciplinary investigation, these works-in-progress meetings offer faculty and advanced graduate students an informal venue for presentation, conversation, and ongoing collaborative exchange.
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Imagining Otherwise: Narrating Transformative Identity Work in a College-Level Social Justice Course
Rachel Carter, Ph.D. student, Language Literacy and Culture, Fall 2015 Dresher Center Graduate Residential Fellow
Rachel Carter will share her teaching model for social justice education, in which she brings together humanities methods and feminist pedagogy to encourage students to invest in transformative identity work. She will also outline her dissertation research project, through which she investigates the process of student engagement with course material.
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Developing a new Professional Identity: Second Career Teachers
Sarah Shin, Professor, Education, Co-Director, M.A. TESOL Program
In this talk, Sarah Shin discusses how four women (age 49, 54, 57, and 60), with successful previous careers in law, neurobiology, architecture, and engineering, negotiate their transitions to a career in teaching.
