Bob Fecho is a professor in the Language and Literacy Education Department at the University of Georgia (Athens, Georgia, US).
To date, his work has focused on issues of language, identity, sociocultural perspectives, practitioner research, and Dialogical pedagogy as they relate to adolescent literacy particularly among marginalized populations.
He has published articles in Harvard Educational Review, Journal of Literacy Research, Research in the Teaching of English, and English Education, and articles he has written have garnered both the Richard A. Meade and Alan C. Purves awards.
The book, "Is This English?" Race, Language, and Culture in the Classroom (Teachers College Press), tells of his experiences teaching across culture in an urban school and was awarded the James Britton Award for Teacher Research from the National Council of Teachers of English, along with receiving Honorable Mention for the 2004 Myers Outstanding Book Awards by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights. Bob has two books coming out in 2011: Writing in the Dialogical Classroom: Students and teachers Responding to the Texts of Their Lives (NCTE) and Teaching for the Students: Habits of Heart, Mind and Practice in the Engaged Classroom (Teachers College Press). |
