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Faythe Beauchemin
Assistant Professor
Faythe Beauchemin
Contact
Campion 125
Email: faythe.beauchemin@bc.edu
ORCID 0000-0001-6985-5400
Education
- Ph.D. , The Ohio State University
- M.Ed , Boston College
- B.S , Lesley University
Courses
Classroom Ethnography
Teaching Reading
Teaching Language Arts
Research Interests
Literacy Studies; Anthropology of Education; Educational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Ethnography; Narrative Theory; Affect; Bi/Multilingualism
Expertise
- Bilingualism & Immigration
- Language Learning & Literacy
- Teaching & Teacher Education
Department
Profile
Faythe Beauchemin is an Assistant Professor at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development, specializing in the areas of language and literacy. Through her research, she explores how students and their teachers use critical literacies to build relationships and communities in classrooms that provide deep, academically excellent learning experiences while nurturing linguistic justice, belonging, and intellectual excitement. She is particularly interested in how classroom interactions hold the potential to affirm and re-value young children's perspectives, languages, cultures and transnational knowledges in instruction.
As a professor of teacher education, she hopes to support pre-service and in-service teachers as they grapple with the multi-layered nature of classroom interactions that unfold during literacy instruction. In particular, she focuses on developing teachers' capacities to engage in the complex and multidimensional process of early reading and writing instruction through case studies and discourse analytic methods.
Her work has appeared in journals such as Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, Linguistics and Education, Literacy Research: Theory Method and Practice, English Teaching: Practice and Critique and English Journal. She serves as the Secretary/Treasurer of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Language and Social Processes SIG and as an Executive Board Member for the National Council for Teachers of English Assembly for Research (NCTEAR). She also serves on the editorial boards of Research in the Teaching of English and Childhood Art.
Publications
Beauchemin, F., Hill, H. & Wilson, M. (in press). Silencing and legitimizing dominant ideologies in literacy. Journal of Literacy Research.
Beauchemin, F. & Carpenter de Cortina, R. (in press). Broadening the construction of personhood in literacy instruction with multilingual paraprofessional teachers and students. Research in the Teaching of English.
Beauchemin, F., Krone, B., Machado, E., Qin, K., Valauri, A. & Hartman, P. (in press). Toward a theory of transgressive classroom language. Linguistics and Education.
Beauchemin, F. (2024). Copresence in authoring conversations. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy. 24(2), 276-297.
Beauchemin, F. & Qin, K. (2023). Bilingual teachers and young children co-constructing affect and play in translingual read-alouds. English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 22(2), 191-207.
Qin, K. & Beauchemin, F. (2022). “I Can Do Slapsticks”: Humor as humanizing pedagogy for science instruction with multilingual adolescent immigrant learners. Literacy Research: Theory, Method and Practice, 71(1), 304-322.
Qin, K. & Beauchemin, F. (2022). “Everybody has to be with everybody”: Languaging relational and intellectual work with multilingual immigrant learners in a science class community. Linguistics and Education, 66, 101019.
Beauchemin, F. (2021). Literacy as social: Relational-keys in literacy events. English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 20(3), 328-340.
Beach, R. & Beauchemin, F. (2020). Using writing to foster teacher/student trust. English Journal, 109(6), 30-36.
Beach, R. & Beauchemin, F. (2019). Teaching Language as Action in the English Language Arts Classroom. Routledge.
Beauchemin, F. (2019). Reconceptualizing classroom life as relational-key. In R. Beach & D. Bloome (Eds.) Languaging Relations for Transforming Literacy and the Language Arts Classroom. Routledge.
Bloome, D., Beauchemin, F., Brady, J., Buescher, E., Kim, M. & Schey, R. (2019). Anthropology of education, anthropology in education and anthropology for education, International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 1-10.
Bloome, D. & Beauchemin, F. (2018). Classroom ethnography, International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 1-10.
Bloome, D. & Beauchemin, F. (2016). Languaging everyday life in classrooms, Literacy Research: Theory Method and Practice, 65 (1), 152-165.