
Sarah Jean Johnson
Assistant ProfessorTeacher Education
Office Room: 606
Phone: (915) 747-5965
Email: sjjohnson2@utep.edu
Dr. Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Literacy/Biliteracy Education in the Department of Teacher Education and serves as an Associate Editor for Anthropology and Education Quarterly. Her research draws from linguistic anthropologies’ frameworks and methods to study the social and cognitive processes of children’s literacy development with an emphasis on the affective and ethical features of learning interactions. With support from the National Endowment for the Arts, her current research examines children's embodied ways of knowing, aesthetics and ethics, and cultural contexts for learning in community arts programs at the US southern border.
Dr. Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Literacy/Biliteracy Education in the Department of Teacher Education and serves as an Associate Editor for Anthropology and Education Quarterly. Her research draws from linguistic anthropologies’ frameworks and methods to study the social and cognitive processes of children’s literacy development with an emphasis on the affective and ethical features of learning interactions. With support from the National Endowment for the Arts, her current research examines children's embodied ways of knowing, aesthetics and ethics, and cultural contexts for learning in community arts programs at the US southern border.
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