Date: 09/23/2019
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
Location
Special Collections Seminar Room
Description
In a globally connected world, how can scholars in the global centers and the peripheries pursue mutual collaboration, transnational exposure, and knowledge sharing amongst us to better serve international students’ learning needs? Hear about a collaboration between North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Stony Brook University that exemplifies the vision for achieving mutual educational goals.
Sabeeha Saleque is a Senior Lecturer at Department of English and Modern Languages, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. With a career spanning across two continents, four nations and 27 years, she engages in teaching and study across the disciplines. She currently teaches writing, composition, and literature at the undergraduate level, while promoting student agency to help students become successful writers. Born and raised in India, she earned her M.A. and M.Phil. in English Literature from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, (India), and taught as a full-time Lecturer at a community college for minority girls (affiliated to Calcutta University) for four years. She also has a Post-graduate certification in TESL from Humber College, (University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada), where she taught at several federal government funded ESL programs for newcomers and immigrants to Canada. Her teaching experience also comprises British international high school curriculum in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. She was actively engaged in social and community service in Toronto, Canada, where she served first as member and then Chair of the Board of Directors for the South Asian Women’s Center and member and Acting Chair for Bloor Information and Life Skills Center, (Toronto). At present, she is teaching at North South University where she seeks to empower students in different cultural and disciplinary contexts by developing realistic curriculum and student-centered pedagogy.
“I believe that mutually beneficial collaboration is possible through shared discipline/scholarship and pedagogical/professional practices/values. In spite of limited access, time, and resources, colleagues in my institution, North South University have been able to boost research/publication and develop pedagogical strategies by pursuing transnational exchange with Stony Brook University colleagues. Aligned with our institutional mission, an MOU was signed between NSU and SBU in May 2018, opening doors to a variety of exchanges including monthly webinar series focusing on research/publication, teaching, and academic support for students. Sharing readings and exchanging ideas/practices related to each other’s work has helped us enhance our work and support our students in and beyond our classrooms. In my brief presentation, I will share some details from the exchanges, discussing the broader vision and context of transnational and cross-institutional collaboration, highlighting how I believe we can nurture institutional relationship in future years.” –Saleque
MaryAnn Duffy has worked for the Program in Writing and Rhetoric for eleven years, and previously worked for the Educational Opportunity Program at Southampton College where she also ran the Tutoring Center. She has taught composition for over 20 years, starting with Hunter College’s Writing and Reading Center, one of the first writing centers in the country. Her interests are in grammar, genre theories and and post-colonial history and fiction. Her undergraduate background is in Philosophy and History. She has a Masters degree in Education in English from Hunter College.
Cynthia Davidson is the Emerging Technologies Coordinator in Writing and Rhetoric and a Senior Lecturer in the College of Arts and Sciences at Stony Brook University, currently specializing in digital rhetoric, the role of writing in ePortfolio learning, and online writing environments. She received her PhD in English at the University of Illinois at Chicago and certificate in composition theory from Stony Brook University. She has published on virtual worlds and writing studies in Computers and Composition Online and most recently has a chapter, “Reconstructing Ethos as Dwelling Place: On the Bridge of 21st-Century Writing Practices (ePortfolios and Blogfolios)” in Thinking Globally, Composing Locally: Rethinking Online Writing in the Age of Global Internet (2018, University Press of Colorado/Utah State University Press).
“International exchange and collaboration are essential in our global times. As our own international student population increases yearly, how do we make sure that our pedagogical practices help them build on their prior academic backgrounds and success abroad? What kinds of instructional practices does current research show to be effective for teaching an international student population? One of the ways to address such questions is to keep an open exchange with instructors across the globe. Based on our exciting exchange with North South University in Dhaka, Bangladesh, we will share with the Stony Brook community some challenges and rewards of teaching international students and the value of educational exchanges between cultures.” –Duffy and Davidson
This event is a collaboration with the Program in Writing and Rhetoric.
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