Jane Agee Associate Professor OFFICE : ED 127A PHONE : (518) 442-5014 FAX: (518) 442-5008 EMAIL: jagee@uamail.albany.edu

Dr. Agee is an associate professor of Language in Education at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She earned a Ph.D. in English Education at the University of Georgia in 1994. Based on her dissertation research, she was a finalist in the National Council of Teachers of English Promising Researcher Award competition in 1995. She joined the faculty of the University at Albany in 1995. Dr. Agee has been a project director of the National Research Center on English Learning and Achievement. She specializes in studies of teaching and learning in the English language arts. Her research examines the social and cultural contexts that shape theory and practice in language and literacy.

Agee's work has appeared in Research in the Teaching of English, The Journal of Literacy Research, and English Education as well as in book chapters and research reports. She is active in a number of professional organizations; she chaired of the American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group in Literature, and is on a number of editorial review boards. In 2001, she was awarded the American Educational Research Association Division and Research Award for her work in teacher education.

Fall 2008 Courses:

ETAP 652L, Class #3821 - Teaching Literature in the Secondary School (3 credits)
Focus is on current research, theory, and practice in literature instruction for adolescents. Designed for beginning and advanced classroom teachers, the course promotes inquiry into major contemporary issues concerning literature instruction; development needs, standards and assess-ments, methods for promoting engaged and critical reading, and expanding literature study to include diverse culture.

ETAP 777, Class #4881 - Qualitative Research Methods
(3 credits)
Qualitative research methods and issues with focus on ethnographic techniques; participant observation and interviewing: analyzing, interpreting, and collecting data. Attention to problems generic to fieldwork; emphasis on formation of research questions (entry into field settings, ethical issues in fieldwork, qualitative analysis and theory building).