Stephanie Jones
- Professor
Educational Theory and Practice
Biography
Stephanie Jones is a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor at The University of Georgia in the department of Educational Theory and Practice where she teaches courses on teachers as writers, feminist theory and pedagogy, social class and poverty, early childhood education, and literacy. Her print-based scholarship on the intersections of literacy, social class, gender, and pedagogy has been published in journals such as Harvard Educational Review; Teachers College Record; Language Arts; Educational Researcher; and American Educational Research Journal.
Stephanie is involved as director or co-director of several projects that combine research, teaching, and research in both local and national contexts:
- The Red Clay Writing Project, which has inspired more than 400 local teachers to express their writerly selves, cultivate writers in K-16 classrooms and across content areas, provide leadership in their educational contexts, inquire with their students, and create a more just world;
- The CLASSroom Project, which aims to end classism in all its forms and has worked with about 4,000 educators in Georgia and Minnesota to support them in better understanding and engaging in “class-sensitive” pedagogies in the classroom through workshops, consulting, and graduate courses;
- The Awesome Clubhouse @ la escuelita, a grassroots collaboration with community folks in a local neighborhood that provides an informal learning center where children of all ages and grown-ups learning to be teachers are encouraged to be creative, curious, and critical world changers.
Areas of Expertise
- literacy
- feminist teacher education
- social class poverty and education
- social justice education
- critical literacy
- pedagogy
Interests
- social class
- gender
- pedagogy
- justice-oriented teacher education
- critical literacy
- early literacy
Academic Affiliations
Education
- EdD in Literacy Education, 2004
University of Cincinnati
Contact
Awards and Accolades
University of Georgia, 2015
University of Georgia, College of Education, 2013-2014
University of Georgia, College of Education, 2013
University of Georgia, 2012-2013
University of Georgia, Center for Teaching and Learning, 2009-2011
University of Georgia, 2016
National Council of Teachers of English, 2017
Society of Professors of Education, 2017
Qualitative Inquiry SIG, American Educational Research Association, 2017