NCID-1835
May Hara
Assistant Professor of Education
Framingham State University
Education/Degree:
1 Education (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
About
May Hara is an assistant professor of education at Framingham State University in Framingham, Massachusetts, where she teaches courses on educational policy, foundations of education, and methods of teaching emergent bilingual students. Her colleagues awarded her the Distinguished Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2017. She is a former middle school English teacher.
Current Work
Dr. Hara's book manuscript, “Why Teach? Love, Justice, and Safety in Public Education” explores the experiences of student teachers and their professional identity formation as they transition to full-time professional practice. This project uses portraiture as a means of examining the shifting nature of teacher work, the ongoing influence of accountability discourses, and issues of equity, justice, and safety in American schools. Dr. Hara's work has also been published in the Peabody Journal of Educational, Policy Futures, and Education and Urban Society, among other publications.
Research Area Keyword(s)
critical pedagogy, critical social theories, educational policy, Teacher education