Faculty Guide

Title

Associate Professor of Education, Director, Master of Arts in Teaching, and Assistant Director, Education Program

Education

Expertise

Elementary education, teacher education, children's writing, child study, democracy and education.

Profile

Current scholarship focuses on teachers' intellectual and moral authority for teaching and the design and assessment of teacher education.

Courses Taught

ANTH	180b	Playing Human: Persons, Objects, Imagination
ED	101a	Elementary School Curriculum and Teaching: Literacy, Social Studies, and Other Topics
ED	264a	Foundations of Education
ED	265a	Field Internship
ED	267a	Fundamentals of Teaching
ED	267b	Fundamentals of Teaching
EL	94a	Experiential Learning Practicum

Scholarship

Roosevelt, Dirck. "To see is not to own: Child Study as a practice of attention for beginning teachers." The New Educator 7. 3 (2011): 240 – 273.

Roosevelt, Dirck. "Purposes that outrun evidence: Making space for the imagination in teaching and learning to teach." Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego. April.

Roosevelt, Dirck. "Descriptive work, boredom, and the discovery of a thinking other: Child Study in teacher education." Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York. March.

Carroll, D., Featherstone, H., Featherstone, J., Feiman-Nemser, S., & Roosevelt, D., ed. Transforming teacher education: Reflections from the field. Cambridge: Harvard Education Press, 2007.

Roosevelt, Dirck. "'What gives you the right?': Earning moral and intellectual authority to teach." Transforming teacher education: Reflections from the field. Ed. Carroll, D., Featherstone, H., Featherstone, J., Feiman-Nemser, S., & Roosevelt, D. Cambridge: Harvard Education Press, 2007

Roosevelt, Dirck. "Keeping real children at the center of teacher education: Child study and the local construction of knowledge in teaching." Transforming teacher education: Reflections from the field. Ed. Carroll, D., Featherstone, H., Featherstone, J., Feiman-Nemser, S., & Roosevelt, D. Cambridge: Harvard Education Press, 2007

Richardson, V. & Roosevelt, D.. "Learning well from experience.." Annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, San Diego.. January.

Roosevelt, Dirck (Ed). "Transformative praxis in school and community." Humanizing pedagogy through HIV/AIDS prevention: Transforming teacher education knowledge. Ed. American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education with Grant, C. and Summerfield L. Boulder CO: Paradigm, 2006

Roosevelt, Dirck & Richardson, Virginia. "The Preparation of Teachers and the Improvement of Teacher Education." Addressing Teacher Workforce Issues Effectively: Institutional, Political, and Philosophical Barriers. Ed. Smylie, M. & Miretzky, D. Chicago: National Society for the Study of Education, 2004

Roosevelt, Dirck. "Playing at New Selves: Becoming 'Teacher' as a Transitional Phenomenon?." Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans. April.

Roosevelt, Dirck. "'There the kid was, stranded in a car': Reading the fictions of children as if they mattered." Curriculum Inquiry 28. 1 (1998).

Roosevelt, Dirck. "Unsuspected Literatures: Public School Classrooms as Laboratories for the Creation of Democratic Culture." Theory into Practice (1998).