Ph.D., Boston College, Curriculum and Instruction: Language. Literacy and Culture
M.Ed., Boston College, Curriculum and Instruction
B.S., Radford University, Social Studies and Secondary Education
Undergraduate:
RE 474: Content Area Reading I Graduate:
RE 509: Reading, Writing, and Study Skills in the Content Area
RE 531: Youth and Adolescent Literacy
RE 722: Children and Adolescent Literature
RE 770: Literacy Seminar Afra Ahmed Hersi is an assistant professor of literacy education in the teacher education department at Loyola University Maryland. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in the Literacy and in the Teacher Education Program. Her area of expertise and research foci includes immigration and social identity, literacy and language development of adolescent English language learners, social context education, critical multicultural education and parent and community engagement in urban schools.
Horan, D., Hersi, A., & Hoffman, J. (In Press). Knowledge of language and the teaching of reading; What should preservice teachers know and be able to do? In S. Elis, J. Bourne, and E. McCartnery (Eds.). Insight and impact: Applied linguistics and the primary school. Cambridge University Press.
Hersi, A. & Shirley, D. (2008). From Radical Visions to Messy Realities: Complexities of Urban Education and the Preparation of Teacher Educators. In F. Peterman. Partnering to Prepare Urban Teachers: A Call to Activism. Washington DC: AACTE.
Shirley, D., Hersi, A., MacDonald, E., Sanchez, M., Skidmore, C. & Tutwiler, P. (2006). Bringing the Community Back in: Change, Accommodation, and Contestation in a School and University Partnership. Equity & Excellence in Education, Amherst, Massachusetts, February, 2006, pp 27-36.
Hersi, A. (2005). Educational challenges and sociocultural experiences of Somali students in an urban high school. NABE: Journal of Review of Research and Practice, Vol. 3, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp 125-143.
American Education Research Association
American Association of Applied Linguists
National Reading Conference
National Council of Teachers of English
International Reading Association
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