Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education faculty debut new books at University Bookstore event, Friday February, 26, 2016 at 6:00pm.
Theresa Catalano, author of Talking about Global Migration: Implications for Language Teaching, and Lauren Gatti, author of Toward a Framework of Resources for Learning to Teach: Rethinking US Teacher Preparation, will discuss their new publications and answer questions.
Theresa Catalano received her Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona in 2011. She is Assistant Professor of Second Language Education/Applied Linguistics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Catalano is also co-director of the Master’s in Language Teaching and Acquisition program. Her book, Talking About Global Migration: Implications for Language Teaching explores the stories of over 70 migrants from 41 countries around the world and examines the language they use when talking about their move to a new country and their experiences there. The book interprets common themes from the stories using metaphor and metonymy analysis to lead to more nuanced understandings of migration that have implications for language teachers. The stories also dispel many stereotypes relating to migration, serving as a reminder to us all to consider our own language when talking about this complex subject.
Lauren Gatti is an Assistant Professor in Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She earned her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In 2013, she was awarded Outstanding Dissertation of the Year in Division K (Teaching and Teacher Education), the largest division of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Gatti’s book, Toward a Framework of Resources for Learning to Teach: Rethinking US Teacher Preparation addresses the historical and practical factors that animate the debates in the field of teacher preparation, arguing that novice teachers and teacher educators must understand the conflicts in the field. The book also advances a way of approaching learning to teach that accounts (for but does not get stuck at) the level of programmatic designation. Using in-depth case studies, Gatti shows how novice urban English teachers from two different teacher preparation pathways – a university-based program and an urban teacher residency – learn to teach within a policy context of high-stakes testing and “college readiness.” Throughout the book, she illustrates how learning to teach might best be understood as a recursive and dynamic process, wherein novice teachers differentially access programmatic, relational experiential, disciplinary, and dispositional resources.
The event is free and open to the public. The University Bookstore is located in the lower level of the Nebraska Union at 14th and R streets.