Deborah Bieler is an Assistant Professor of
English Education and coordinates student teaching for English
Education majors. She has a background in teaching high school
English and directing a college writing center, and she has
also taught a number of undergraduate and graduate courses,
including first-year composition, writing center theory and
practice, curriculum and pedagogy, and social science literature
review writing.
Dr. Bieler's current research agenda involves work toward
the building of an agentic, activist teaching profession in
which students and teachers - across traditional boundaries
of age, experience, and institution - support one another
in learning communities and engage together in transformative
practice. Her current projects focus on the role of dialogue
in student-teacher/university-based mentor relationships,
the use of the inquiry stance in new teacher groups, and understanding
what it means to teach English for social justice.
Her recent work includes an article on creating critical,
compassionate communities in English and English Education
classrooms (available at http://www.urbanedjournal.org/articles/article0024.html)
and the creation of the NETS Project (New English Teachers
for Social justice), a teacher research / activism group that
is working for change in their schools. In 2006, Dr. Bieler
received a Promising Researcher Award from NCTE for her work
on dialogic praxis in the mentoring of student-teachers.
Dr. Bieler received her Ph.D. in Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum
at the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education
and her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Delaware. She
is an active member of NCTE, AERA, and Critical Educators
for Social Justice.
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