Jeanine M. Staples
Jeanine M. Staples is an adjunct professor of reading and writing at Philadelphia University and an Ed.D. candidate in Reading/Writing/Literacy at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her bachelor's degree in English from Howard University in Washington, D.C. (1998) and her Master's degree in Teaching and Curriculum from Harvard University in Cambridge, M.A. (1999). She holds certificates in English education for grades 9-12 (granted by the state of Massachusetts) and urban studies (granted by the University of Pennsylvania). She has extensive experience working with at-risk readers of all ages, in addition to pre-service and in-service teachers of urban school districts. As an inquiring practitioner with a critical research agenda, Staples' scholarship is vested in uncovering and utilizing the relationships that exist between literacies, media, adolescence, and teacher education. Using frameworks indigenous to African American theorists and practitioners, she examines the ways urban youth of color use and develop literacy over time and the ways their teachers support and facilitate their work. Staples writes about her students' literacies and her own professional development as a teacher/scholar in "What's possible: African American urban adolescents as engaged readers" and "With spirit and with truth: African American women in the academy"- chapters in two forthcoming edited volumes. For questions or discussion, please email jeaninestaples@hotmail.com.
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