Sarah MacKenzie-Dawson

Educational Background

• B.A. in Theatre, University of New Hampshire
• M.Ed., University of New Hampshire
• Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, Pennsylvania State University

Research Interests

• Impact of trauma on teacher identity
• Pre-service teacher identity
• Testimony
• A/R/Tography
• Poststructuralism
• Representation and performance
• Critical pedagogy
• Adolescents and literacy
• Arts-in-Education
• Influence of the tracking system on literacy identity on learners
• Role of identity, self and emotion in literacy learning
• Feminist pedagogy
• Critical literacy as a means of empowerment for "at risk" adolescents
• Using multiple forms of text to understand one's subjectivity, addiction

Courses

• Literacy Across the Contexts
• Literacy and Learning in the Diverse Classroom
• Integrating the Arts in Learning
• Elementary Student Teaching Supervision
• Social Foundations of Education
• Education and the Human Spirit