Maureen Hall

faculty

Maureen Hall, PhD she/her/hers

Professor

Education

Contact

508-999-8211

508-910-6916

Liberal Arts 398C

Education

University of VirginiaPhD
University of VirginiaMA
University of Massachusetts AmherstBA

Teaching

  • Global Citizenship Education
  • Deep Reading and Lectio Divina
  • Social Emotional Learning (SEL)
  • Contemplative Practices and Pedagogies
  • Teacher Leadership

Courses

Critical examination of the field of education from multiple perspectives. This course provides a means for students to critically examine what it means to be a teacher beyond knowing their area's content to engage creative, humanistic, philosophical, and aesthetic tenets of teaching. Outside speakers and experiential learning will provide opportunities integral to a broader understanding of the field of education.

Exploration and development of both theoretical and pedagogical frameworks for engaging crucial social, cultural, and political issues related to education in local and national contexts. The course explores how dimensions of race, sex/gender and sexuality, ability, and class operate in/through schooling both at a structural level as well as at the level of classroom practice. Emphasis will be placed on issues relevant to the SouthCoast region, including urban contexts, and the diverse educational needs of this region.

Online and Continuing Education Courses

Action research for in-service teachers. Participants will make connections between their theoretical understandings of research and their own emergence as practitioner researchers as producers of knowledge through studying their own practice. They will identify a problem in their practice, develop a research plan, gather and analyze data, reflect on results, and develop implications for future teaching practice and action research

Exploration and development of both theoretical and pedagogical frameworks for engaging crucial social, cultural, and political issues related to education in local and national contexts. The course explores how dimensions of race, sex/gender and sexuality, ability, and class operate in/through schooling both at a structural level as well as at the level of classroom practice. Emphasis will be placed on issues relevant to the SouthCoast region, including urban contexts, and the diverse educational needs of this region.

Skills to recognize and examine everyday language and literacy repertoires of students from diverse backgrounds will be developed. The course explores topics such as popular culture, digital story-telling, multi-model literacies, including different modes of expression and communication, both in formal and informal education settings.
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Empowering in-service teachers to design a variety of instructional opportunities that attend to student learning, Building from a review of basic practices related to addressing academic diversity and responsive teaching in contemporary classrooms, this course focuses on the creation of learning environments supporting effective instructional and management strategies that attend to the dynamic and varied needs of all learners.
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Research

Research activities

  • Grant from Mind and Life Institute: The Impact of Mindfulness Meditation Training on Social Integration and Well-Being in First-Semester College Students. PI: Dr. Aminda O’Hare, Psychology Department. CO- PIs: Dr. Maureen P. Hall; Dr. Brian Ayotte, Psychology Department, Dr. Elizabeth Lehr, English Department. Agency: Mind and Life 1440 Award. Period: September 2016- May 2017. Requested: $15,000.00. Status: Funded. Submitted, February 8, 2016. Awarded: May 5, 2016.

Research interests

  • Contemplative Practice and Pedagogies
  • Deep Reading and Lectio Divina
  • Social Emotional Learning
  • Mindfulness in Education

Select publications

  • Hall, M.P. and Lynch, M.E. (2024).
    Spiritual “quilting”: How contemplative practices can deepen and humanize understanding(s) of Global Citizenship Education. In Flanagan, B., & Clough, K. (Eds.)
    The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Spirituality and Contemplative Studies. Routledge
  • Hall, M.P., Jones, L.F., Lemon, N., and Curry, A.B. (2024).
    Tapestries of teaching, scholarship, and personal growth: Stories from a Community of Practice (CoP). In Rainville, K. N., & Desrochers, C. G. (Eds.)
    Expanding the Vision of Faculty Learning Communities in Higher Education: Emerging Opportunities for Faculty to Support and Engage with Each Other in Learning, Teaching, and Support. IAP
  • Hall, M.P. & Lynch, M.E. (2022).
    Surviving and thriving in an interconnected world: Global Citizenship Education and the Sustainable Development Goals
    EBSCO Pathways to Research.
  • Hall. M. P. and Brault, A. K. (2021).
    Academia from the Inside: Pedagogies for self and other

Dr. Hall earned her PhD in English Education from the University of Virginia. Before teaching in higher education, she taught English and U.S. History at the middle and high school levels. In 2003, she joined the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in education. These courses include:

  • Perspectives on Education
  • Knowing and Learning
  • Critical Literacies
  • Sociocultural and Political Contexts of Education, and
  • Action Research

Dr. Hall cultivates many interdisciplinary research partnerships, which focus on Global Citizenship Education (GCE), Teacher Leadership, Holistic Education, Literacies, and Social Emotional Learning (SEL). She has published more than 25 articles in peer-reviewed journals, along with many chapters in edited books. She has written and co-edited 3 books:

  1. Transforming Literacy: Changing Lives through Reading and Writing (Emerald Publishing, 2011)
  2. The Whole Person: Embodying Teaching and Learning through Lectio and Visio Divina (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019), and
  3. Academia from the Inside: Pedagogies for Self and Other (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).

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