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Ball,
Arnetha F
Professor of Education
http://www.stanford.edu/~arnetha |
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"Globalization, technological advances, and the increasing number of students in classrooms worldwide who are from various racial, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds make multicultural and multilingual education an imperative in the 21st century. … Teachers, however, continue to primarily come from backgrounds that are different from those of their students, and they feel woefully underprepared to teach students from cultural and linguistic groups that differ from their own."
- from Multicultural Strategies for Education and Social Change: Carriers of the Torch in the United States and South Africa (2006)
Before entering the professorate, Dr. Arnetha Ball was a speech/language pathologist, taught in pre-school, elementary and secondary classrooms for over 25 years, and was the founder and Executive Director of an early education center for students of diverse backgrounds. Currently, she conducts an interdisciplinary program of research that aims to improve education for urban populations in three intersecting contexts: U.S. schools in which predominantly poor African American, Latino, and Pacific Islander students are underachieving; community-based organizations that are part of an alternative education system offering "second chance" or "last chance" opportunities for individuals in search of personal, academic, and economic success; and teacher education programs in the U.S. and South Africa. Dr. Ball has served as an Academic Specialist for the United States Information Services Program in South Africa. She has co-taught courses on multiliteracies and English methodologies in the teacher education program at Johannesburg College of Education, and has taught in the Further Diploma in Education Program at the University of Cape Town. Dr Ball's research integrates sociocultural, sociolinguistic, and ethnographic approaches to investigate the processes of teacher change and development, as well as the language and literacy practices of students in multicultural settings. She currently serves as Vice President of the Teaching and Teacher Education Division of AERA, and is Past President of the National Conference on Research in Language and Literacy (NCRLL). |
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* PhD (Language, Literacy & Culture), Stanford University, 1991
* MS (Speech Pathology), University of Michigan, 1972
* BA (Education), University of Michigan, 1971 |
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* Ethnic Studies Resource Specialist, Speech Pathologist, Classroom Teacher, Richmond Unified School District, Richmond, CA (1972-1983)
* Administrative Director and Classroom Teacher, Children's Creative Workshop, Richmond, CA (1974-1980)
* Classroom Teacher, Aurora Elementary School, Aurora, IL (1984-1986)
* Speech Pathologist, Audiology Associates of Dayton, OH (1986-1987)
* External Program Evaluator, Los Angeles Unified School District (1991-1992)
* Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Michigan (1991-1992)
* Assistant Professor of Education, University of Michigan (1992-1998)
* Associate Professor of Education & Coordinator of the Literacy, Language and Culture Program, University of Michigan (1998-1999) |
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* Professor of Education (2007-present)
* Associate Professor of Education (1999-2007)
* Research Associate and Instructor (1988-1991) |
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| * Literacy Studies: research on the writing and writing instruction of cultually and linguistically diverse students; preparing teachers to teach diverse student populations; linking sociocultural and linguistic theory with educational practice; using the linguistic resources present among culturally diverse populations to enhance curriculum and instruction. |
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* ED 166 - The Centrality of Literacies in Teaching and Learning
* ED 135/337 - Preparing Teachers for Diversity: Sociocultural Theory and Practice
* ED 243 - Research on Writing and Writing Instruction
* ED 281 - Using Literacies to Support Struggling Students
* ED 322 - Discourse Analysis: The Discourse of Liberation and Equity in Schools and Society |
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* Ball, A. F. (2009). Toward a theory of generative change in culturally and linguistically complex classrooms. American Educational Research Journal, 46(1), 45-72.
* Paris, D. J., & Ball, A. F. (2009). Connecting teacher and student knowledge in culturally and linguistically complex classrooms: Lessons for teacher education. In L. M. Morrow, R. Rueda, & D. Lapp (Eds.), Handbook of research on literacy instruction: Issues of diversity, policy, and equity. New York: Guilford.
* Cooks, J., & Ball, A. F. (2008). African American adolescent literacies: Practices, perspectives, and pedagogical approaches. In L. Christenbury, R. Bomer, & P. Smagorinsky (Eds.), Handbook on adolescent literacy research. New York: Guilford.
* Ball, A. F. (Ed.) (2006). With more deliberate speed: Achieving equity and excellence in education. NSSE 2006 Yearbook: National Society for the Study of Education. Williston, VT: Blackwell Publishing.
* Ball, A. F. (2006). Multicultural strategies for education and social shange: Carriers of the torch in the United States and South Africa. New York: Teachers College Press.
* Ball, A. F. (2005). Culture and language: Bidialectal issues in literacy. In J. Flood & P. Andres (Eds.), Literacy development of students in urban schools: Research and Policy. Newark, DE: International Reading Association.
* Ball, A. F., & Freedman, S. W. (Eds.) (2004). Bakhtinian perspectives on language, literacy and learning. New York: Cambridge University Press.
* Ball, A. F. (2002). Three decades of research on classroom life: Illuminating the classroom communicative lives of America's at-risk students. Review of Research in Education,
* Ball, A. F. (2000). Empowering pedagogies that enhance the learning of multicultural students. Teachers College Record, 102(6), 1006-1034. |
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* Vice President, AERA Division K (Teaching and Teacher Education)
* Associate Editor, Urban Education (2001-present)
* Editorial Board, Written Communication (1997-present)
* Editorial Board, American Educational Research Journal (1998-present)
* Editorial Board, Teachers College Press (1996-present)
* Editorial Board, College Composition and Communication (1997-present) |
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* Phone: (650) 724-7424
* Email: arnetha@stanford.edu
* Home page: http://www.stanford.edu/~arnetha
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