Alice Lesnick
Senior Lecturer in Education and Director
Biography
Alice Lesnick, Ph.D., serves as Senior Lecturer in Education and Director of the Bryn Mawr/Haverford Education Program. She teaches courses including Critical Issues in Education, Literacies and Education, Qualitative Research, Empowering Learners: Theory and Practice of Extra-Classroom Teaching, and the Senior Seminar for students completing the Minor in Educational Studies. In addition, Alice is Faculty Coordinator of Staff/Student Partnerships through the Teaching and Learning Initiative (http://www.brynmawr.edu/tli) and engaged in a participatory action research assessment of the program's impact.
As a Faculty Associate of the Institute for Writing and Thinking, Alice leads professional development initiatives for teachers in the use of informal writing to foster learning. Before becoming a teacher educator, she taught pre-school, third grade, secondary English, and adults, including college freshmen, second language learners, and students returning for undergraduate study.
Alice holds a Ph.D. in Reading/Writing/Literacy and a Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in Liberal Education from St. John's College, and a B.A. (cum laude) in English from Yale College.
Research
Alice's research focuses on collaboration and collaborative learning, moral education, and gender and schooling.
Recent publications include:
Lesnick, A. (Forthcoming). “Odd Questions, Strange Texts, and Other People: Collaborative Learning and New Knowledge Through Writing, Thinking, Talk, and Play.” In Vilardi, T. & Chang, M. (Eds.), Essential Practices, Enduring Questions: 25 Years of Writing to Learn from the Institute for Writing and Thinking. SUNY Press, Albany, NY.
Cohen J., Lesnick, A., & Attardi, D. (Forthcoming) "Temporary Anchors, Impermanent Shelter: Can the Field of Education Model a New Approach to Academic Work?" Journal of Research Practice.
Lesnick, A., Cohen, J., Cook-Sather, A. (2007). “Working the Tensions: Constructing Educational Studies within a Liberal Arts Context” In Bjork, C., Johnston, D.K., & Ross, H. (Eds.), Taking Teaching Seriously: How Liberal Arts Colleges Prepare Teachers to Meet Today’s Educational Challenges in School. Paradigm Publishers: Boulder, CO.
Lesnick, A. (2006). "Forms of Engagement: The Ethical Significance of Literacy Teaching." Ethics and Education, I: 1.
Lesnick, A. (2006). Essay Book Review of Because Writing Matters: Improving Student Writing in our Schools (National Writing Project and Carl Nagin, San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2003). Journal of Teacher Education, 57: 1.
Lesnick, A. (February, 2005). "The Mirror in Motion: Redefining Reflective Practice in an Undergraduate Field Work Seminar." Reflective Practice, 6:1, pp. 33-48.
Lesnick, A. (June, 2005). "On the Job: Performing Gender and Inequality at Work, Home, and School." Journal of Education and Work, 18: 2, pp.189-201.