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\"RebeccaAssociate Professor of Curriculum, Assessment and Instruction<\/strong>
\nrebecca.buchanan@maine.edu<\/a>
\n207.581.2462<\/p>\n

329 Shibles Hall
\nUniversity of Maine
\nOrono, Maine 04469-5766<\/p>\n

Bio:<\/strong> Rebecca Buchanan is an associate professor of curriculum, assessment and instruction, part of the School and Learning and Teaching at the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development. Dr. Buchanan studies teacher learning, broadly defined. She is interested in the intersection of personal identity, professional development, school reform, literacy and language. She employs qualitative methods and discourse analysis to investigate how teachers learn in and across multiple contexts by connecting their own personal and professional pasts with the present.<\/p>\n

Buchanan is a member of the Penobscot River Educational Partnership (PREP) teacher education committee, and currently serves as treasurer-secretary of the Lives of Teachers special interest group for the American Educational Research Association. She also has taught a workshop on feminist pedagogy for high school teachers at a Women and Gender Studies conference.<\/p>\n

Education<\/strong>
\nPh.D., 2017, University of California Santa Cruz
\nM.A., 2014, University of California Santa Cruz
\nB.A., 2007, University of Alabama<\/p>\n

Courses taught at UMaine<\/strong><\/p>\n