Faculty

Sarah W. Beck

Assistant Professor of English Education

Phone: 212-998 5473
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Presentations

  • Beck, S.W. (2006). Students’ understanding of goals for school-based writing: Linking the affective and the cognitive. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA: April 8, 2006.
  • Beck, S.W., Giordano, P. & Jeffery, J. V. (2006). “I just want them to write an essay”: How teachers think about integrating literacy skills and content knowledge. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association,
  • Beck, S.W. (2005). Orientations to Literary Response: Attitudes and Processes. Paper presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the National Reading Conference, Miami, Florida: November 30-December 3, 2005.
  • Beck, S. W. & Jeffery, J. (2005). Genres of academic writing and of high-stakes assessment: Exploring the difference. Paper presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the National Reading Conference, Miami, Florida: November 30-December 3, 2005.
  • Beck, S.W. & McCallister, C. (2005). Enacting Literacy Learning Goals: How Teachers Guide Student Intentionality. Paper presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the National Reading Conference, Miami, Florida: November 30-December 3, 2005.
  • Beck, S.W. (2004). How writing extends students’ reasoning about literature. Paper presented at the 94th Annual Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English. Indianapolis, Indiana: November 18-24, 2004.
  • Beck, S. W. & Milne, C.M. (2004). The use of texts for thinking and learning in science. Paper presented at the 5th Annual Conference on Sharing Our Success in Urban Science and Math Teaching. New York, NY: May, 2004.

Degrees Held

  • A.B. Harvard College 1991
  • Ed.D. Harvard University 2002
  • M.F.A. Washington University 1993

Awards

  • Zirin Award
  • Steinhardt Research Challenge Fund Grant
  • Spencer Research Training Grant

Publications

  • Beck, S. (2006). Subjectivity and intersubjectivity in the teaching and learning of writing. Research in the Teaching of English, 40, 4, pp.
  • Beck, S., Coker, D.A., Hemphill, L. & Bellinger, D. (2002). Literacy Skills of Children with Early Corrective Heart Surgery. In J. Hoffman, D. Schallert, C. Fairbanks, J. Worthy, B. Maloch (Eds.) The 51st National Reading Conference Yearbook. Oak Creek, WI: National Reading Conference.
  • Beck, S. (2001). Editor’s Review of Vygotskian Perspectives on Literacy Research: Constructing Meaning Through Collaborative Inquiry and Inside City Schools: Investigating Literacy in Multicultural Classrooms. Harvard Educational Review, 71, 2, 296-309.
  • Beck, S. & Nabors-Olah, L. (Eds.), (2001). Beyond the Here and Now: Perspectives on Language and Literacy. (Harvard Educational Review Reprint Series No. 35.) Cambridge, MA: President and Fellows of Harvard College.
  • Duke, N.K. & Beck, S. (1999). Education should consider alternative formats for the dissertation. Educational Researcher, 28, 3, 31-36.
  • Cazden, C. & Beck, S. W. (2003). Classroom discourse. In A. Graesser, M. Gernsbacher, & S. Goldman (Eds.) Handbook of Discourse Processes (pp. 165-198). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum..

Editorial Boards

  • 2004-present: Journal of Literacy Research, Editorial Board Member

Research Interests

  • adolescent literacy
  • urban education
  • field-based research methods
  • equity issues in education
  • cultural contexts for literacy learning
  • academic discourse