Gordon (Toby) Malcolm Emert Jr. Ph.D.
Associate professor of education and director of teacher education
Contact Information:
temert@agnesscott.edu
(404) 471-6897
Academic Degrees:
B.A., Longwood College
M.Ed., The College of William and Mary
M.A., University of Tennessee
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Teaching and Scholarly Interests:
Dr Emert's interests include English education, 21st-century literacies, and technology in language arts classrooms. He is currently engaged in researching and documenting multicultural education. He teaches writing instruction and creative writing with an emphasis on children’s and young adult literature. Additional interests are teaching as an artform, the arts and education, and authentic and alternative assessments.
Professional Activities:
Recent Conference Presentations:
“Teacher-as-Artist: Imagining an Aesthetic Ethos for Critical Pedagogues”
Hawai’i International Education Conference, Honolulu, HI (January 2009)
“The Teaching That Dare Not Speak Its Name: the English Classroom as Taboo Territory”
http://www.ncte.org/
National Council of Teachers of English, San Antonio, TX (November 2008)
“Confronting Homophobia to Create Change in Education and Human Services”
http://www.ptoweb.org/
14th International Conference on Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed, Omaha, NE (May 2008)
“Imaginative Assessment: Aesthetic Approaches to Evaluation”
http://gcte.net
Council of Teachers of English, Pine Mountain, GA (February 2008)
Recent Book Chapters:
Amos, Denise, Bradshaw, Glorianne, Emert, Toby, et. al. "Stepping into the Role of Professional Writer.” Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy. Eds. J. Salmon and L. Wilson. Information Science Ref, 2008. 250-259.
Boykin, Zsa, Toby Emert, Sandra Grant, & Scott Smoot. “Writing with Our Eyes Open: a Collaborative Response to Teachers' Writing Groups.” In Teachers' Writing Groups: Collaborative Inquiry and Reflection for Professional Growth. Eds. Sarah Robbins, et. al. Kennesaw, GA: Kennesaw State University Press, 2006. 173-180.
In addition, Dr. Emert has published poems, book reviews, interviews, a number of peer-reviewed journal articles, and more than 150 articles appearing in popular magazines, newspapers, and on websites.
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Department of Education