Please join Kathryn Strom in a discussion of her new book, Scaffolding the Language of Power: An Apprenticeship in Doctoral Level Writing, which uses a new genre-based method to teach doctoral students the skills to successfully write a doctoral dissertation or thesis in education and related social science fields. Offering a general framework with lessons and exercises to strengthen organization, scaffolding, argumentation, evidence use, synthesis skills, and academic voice, this book guides students through the essential steps of the research journey.

Kathryn (Katie) Strom is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at California State University, East Bay and Director of CSUEB’s Center for Research on Equity and Collaborative Engagement. Dr. Strom combines multiple critical and complex/neomaterialist theories to study teacher learning and practice (particularly in support of multilingual youth), as well as to advocate more broadly for more relational, difference-affirmative ways of thinking-being-doing in education and academia.

Dr. Strom has been a leader in bringing theories of critical complexity to the field of teacher education. Most recently, she led a double special issue on non-linear perspectives in teacher development in the journal Professional Development in Education, overseeing the curation and publication of a set of 22 papers using multiple complexity perspectives to develop knowledge regarding teacher learning, development, and ongoing support. She is also the co-author of Becoming-Teacher: A Rhizomatic Look at First Year Teaching and Decentering the Researcher in Intimate Scholarship: Critical Posthuman Methodological Perspectives. Dr. Strom has participated as senior research personnel in projects including the federally-funded International Consortium of Multilingual Excellence in Education (ICMEE) and NSF-funded STEAM Language, Learning, and Identity for Multilingual Learners project, and currently serves as a research advisor to the Smithsonian Institute’s Network for Emergent Socio-Scientific Thinking (NESST). In 2021, Dr. Strom co-founded the Posthuman Research Nexus, a global organization that supports and connects scholars engaging in posthuman and other complexity perspectives through monthly research socials, mentoring workshops, and reading groups.

Daniel Friedrich, Associate Professor of Curriculum, will welcome guests and moderate discussion. Dr. Friedrich is the recent recipient of the AERA Critical Engagement in Curriculum and Cultural Studies Mid-Career Award for his scholarship and service relating to the politics of schooling and teacher education, with an interdisciplinary, comparative and international approach and special focus on Latin America. 

Where: 306 Russell / Online

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