Delane Bender-Slack

Delane Bender-Slack is Professor of Literacy, Co-Director of the School of Education, and the Program Director for both Reading and TESOL at Xavier University. She is a teacher educator, teaching courses in English Language Arts methods, middle childhood, adolescent, and multicultural literature, content area literacy, process writing, and reading theories. She has been published in a variety of journals and has published four books, Internationalization in the Classroom: Going Global, The Nicaraguan Literacy Campaign: The Power and Politics of Literacy, Towards Anti-Racist Educational Research: Radical Moments and Movements, and Equity-Oriented Critical Curricula: Envisioning Hope with Students. She coordinated and implemented international experiences in Peru, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. She has been involved in planning and implementing Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) across the campus, also collaborating with various international colleagues in Peru, Mexico, Ireland, and Ecuador. She received a Global Teacher Education Fellowship and a Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (GPA) Program Grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

Publications

Envisioning a Sustainable and Equitable Transnational Engagement: Cross-Disciplinary Collaborative Online International Learning
Envisioning a Sustainable and Equitable Transnational Engagement: Cross-Disciplinary Collaborative Online International Learning
Delane Bender-Slack, Lauren DeVeau, Ruth Espinoza Pure, Ray McAdams. © 2024. 20 pages.
How can we individually and collectively demonstrate greater care and responsibility for what happens in our global context and in higher education? This chapter will describe...