Position at uc berkeley - open rank - ELL/Bilingual Education

[Patricia Baquedano-Lopez]

Colleagues,

A great opportunity at UC Berkeley's School of Education. The areas of
expertise are broad.   -patricia
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING/BILINGUAL EDUCATION

The Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley
announces an opening for a tenure-track or tenured appointment at the
Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor rank in English Language
Learning/Bilingual Education, starting July 1, 2011. This is a full time
position with a nine-month academic year appointment, and it is in the
Language and Literacy, Society and Culture area of the school.

Across the nation and world, schools struggle to educate immigrant students
and English language learners. We seek a scholar whose research and teaching
will contribute to the theory and practice of English language learning and
teaching/bilingual education by providing rigorous and theoretically
grounded approaches to understanding the academic and schooling experiences
of immigrant and English language learners. The work of ideal candidates
will engage classroom learning and teaching practices, but it will situate
and analyze these practices in the broader context of the socio-historical,
cultural diversity, and political-equity issues surrounding the schooling of
immigrant students, English language learners, bilingual, and culturally and
linguistically diverse students. A focus on K-12 education is desired.

Candidates should hold a doctoral degree in educational linguistics,
language and literacy education, second language acquisition, or another
related field. They should have demonstrated a record, or the potential for
achieving a record, of producing and publishing high-quality research and
generating funding from competitive grants. Candidates will be expected to
have excellent teaching and mentoring skills and contribute to teaching and
advising in our doctoral/masters and credential programs. There will also be
opportunities to teach courses in our undergraduate minor.

Strong candidates will have expertise in one or more of the following areas:
(1) first/second language development and assessment, (2) instructing
immigrant, English language learners, bilingual, and/or culturally and
linguistically diverse students in one or more of the content areas
(literacy, social studies, science, and math), and (3) the intersections
between language, race, ethnicity, and culture in teaching and learning.

Applications must include a detailed letter of interests and qualifications;
a curriculum vitae; a sample of recent scholarly writings; and three letters
of reference. All items must be submitted no later than December 1, 2010.
For instructions about submitting materials, please visit:
http://gse.berkeley.edu/Admin/newfac.html. Follow the directions for
self-registration and uploading of PDF's, and obtain the URL for your
letters of reference writers. Contact person for questions:  Ms. Helen
Clifton, Dean's Office, Graduate School of Education, University of
California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-1670; email: hclifton at berkeley.edu.
Please arrange for letters of recommendation to be sent to us directly, and
refer your referees to the University's statement on confidentiality, found
at http://apo.chance.berkeley.edu/evalltr.html

The Graduate School of Education is interested in candidates who will
contribute to diversity and equal opportunity in higher education through
their teaching, research, and service.  UC Berkeley is committed to
addressing the family needs of faculty, including dual-career couples and
single parents.

The University of California, Berkeley is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative
Action Employer.