{"id":611,"date":"2010-05-10T13:20:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T17:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/education\/?page_id=611"},"modified":"2019-11-05T10:44:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T15:44:09","slug":"charles-anita","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/faculty\/charles-anita\/","title":{"rendered":"Anita Charles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anita S. Charles<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

Senior Lecturer in Education and Director of Secondary Teacher Education<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Anita is Senior Lecturer and Director of Secondary Teacher Education at Bates and previously taught high school English for over ten years. In the past, she has taught a wide variety of ages and abilities, from first graders in Jersey City, NJ, through adult learners, teaching subjects as diverse as French and Alternative Education programming.<\/p>\n

She has mentored many new and student teachers, and has presented statewide workshops on a wide range of topics, including autism in the classroom, special education topics and laws, multiliteracies, and effective teaching methodologies. <\/p>\n

As a Fulbright Scholar in India in 2016 and again in 2023, Anita taught undergraduates and explored issues of literacy and inclusion in preK-12 schools and programs. Subsequent to her first Fulbright, she engaged in research on inclusive education for children with disabilities in India. Thanks to a Bates-specific Phillips Fellowship, she recently conducted a study on education nonprofits in Sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n

Anita has a Ph.D. from University of New Hampshire in the area of Adolescent Literacy. Her dissertation entitled \u201c\u2018It\u2019s Just Part of What We Do\u2019: Adolescent Interactions with Multimodal Texts Across Social Spaces,\u201d won two national awards. She holds an M.Ed. from Harvard in Human Development and Psychology with a special focus on Language and Culture, and a B.A. from Dartmouth College in French and Education. Her scholarly interests include Teacher Education, Literacy, Comparative and International Education, and Special Education.<\/p>\n

Anita has a chapter entitled \u201c\u2018There\u2019s a relationship\u2019: Negotiating cell phone use in the high school classroom\u201d published in Researching New Literacies: Design, Theory, and Data in Sociocultural Investigation (Knobel & Lankshear, eds). She has published numerous articles as well as a chapter in an anthology entitled The first Year of Teaching: Real World Stories from America\u2019s Teachers.<\/p>\n

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