Dover, Alison G.
Professor of Secondary Education
Graduate Program Advisor, Master of Science in Transformative Teaching in Secondary Education
Secondary Education
Biography:
Alison G. Dover is a professor in the Department of Secondary Education. She holds a doctorate in social justice education from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and has taught English language arts and service learning in diverse urban school districts in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Dover works extensively with local and national students, educators, and school communities to advance social justice, agency, and culturally sustaining pedagogies in K-12 and teacher education. She is co-author of "Preparing to Teach Social Studies for Social Justice: Becoming a Renegade" (2016, Teachers College Press), and has written more than 30 journal articles and book chapters related to literacy, equity-oriented approaches to teacher education, and teaching for social justice. Her second book, "Radically Inclusive Teaching with Newcomer and Emergent Plurilingual Students: Braving Up" was published in 2022. Dover holds leadership roles in the American Educational Research Association (Division K: Teaching and Teacher Education), the California Alliance of Researchers for Equity in Education (CARE-ED), and is the principal investigator for a Spencer Foundation Research-Practice Partnership Grant entitled Project LEARN: Language, Equity and Action Research with Newcomer Students. Dover is co-director of the Golden Bell winning Language Explorer programs, which have engaged more than 1000 newcomer & emergent plurilingual students, 100 educators, and 4 Southern California school districts, in arts- and literacy-rich explorations of identity, culture, and language.
Areas of Knowledge:
- Social Justice Education
- Curriculum Standards
- Teacher Education Policy
Subject(s):
- Culture -- Diversity
- Education -- High School
- Education -- K-12
- Education -- Multicultural
- Education -- Public School
- Education -- Teaching
- Racial Issues
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