KATHLEEN RILEY
Professor
Recitation 107E
KRiley@wcupa.edu
Education
- Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
- M.A., American University
- B.A., Colby College
Scholarly Interests
- Teacher organizing and activism
- Teacher education pedagogies and program design
- Qualitative research methods
- Participatory and practitioner research methodologies
- Community-immersive teacher preparation
- Critical literacy in K-12 classrooms
- Adolescent literacy education
- Queer and trans-affirming curriculum and schools
- Anti-racist approaches to education
- Urban education
Selected Publications
Riley, K. & Soslau, E. (2022). What Does it Look Like?: A Window into Classroom-Based
Critical Service Learning. Journal for Multicultural Education, 16(4), 362-373.
Riley, K. & Crawford-Garrett, K. (2022). Critical, Contextualized, Content-Rich: Revisiting
the Call for Humanizing Pedagogies in Literacy Methods Instruction. English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 21(2),156-170.
Riley, K. & Solic, K. (2021). Abolitionist Teacher Education in the Contact Zone:
Tensions of Facilitating Teacher Candidate Learning in Activist Educator Spaces.
Equity & Excellence in Education, 54(2), 152-164.
Riley, K. (2021). Book groups in the social justice unionism movement: An analysis of teachers’ reasons for participation. Critical Education, 12(7), 23-42.
Riley, K. & Cohen, S. (2018). In Philadelphia, Teacher Book Groups are the Engines of Change. Rethinking Schools, Spring 2018, 38-45.
Crawford-Garrett, K. & Riley, K. (2018). Class and Race Silences in Teacher Education: Problematizing Strategy-Based Approaches to Literacy Methods Instruction. Teaching Education, Feb 2018, 1-21.
Riley, K., & Solic, K. (2017). “Change Happens Beyond the Comfort Zone:” Bringing Undergraduate Teacher- Candidates into Activist Teacher Communities. Journal of Teacher Education, 68(2), 179-192.
Riley, K. (2015). Enacting Critical Literacy in Urban English Classrooms: How a Teacher Learning Community Supported Diverse Critical Inquiries. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 58(5), 417-425.
Recent Courses Taught
- EDR 317 & 318: Reading Instruction and Practicum (PreK-4 & 4-8)
- EDR 308: Foundations in Reading (4-8)
- EDR 200: Critical Literacy Education in K-12 Schools
- EDD 703: Critical Issues in Education Justice
- EDD 720: Education Research Design and Measurement
- EDR 304: Teaching Language Arts, Grades 4-8
- EDR 519: Issues of Diversity in Teaching Reading
- EDD 800: Pre-Dissertation Seminar
- EDD 801 & 802: Education Research Experience I & II