Betsy Beckert
Doctoral Student
Betsy Beckert is a doctoral student in language & literacy education at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & 人类发展. Her work focuses on the multiple and multimodal literacies of signing deaf students. She is the recipient of a 2024 NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship.
Betsy has experience working in deaf education both in the US and abroad, as a Peace Corps volunteer in Usulután, El Salvador, from 2008 to 2010. She also taught 4th and 5th grade students at the Learning Center for the Deaf in Framingham, Mass.
Recent News
Education
MEd, Deaf Education, Boston University
BS, Cornell University
Courses
Instructor of Record, LS 727 Critical Visual Literacy of Multimodal Texts in Education, Spring 2022
Teaching Fellow, LS 627 Critical Analysis of Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Fall 2020, 2021
Teaching Fellow, LS 632 - Reading Graphic Novels as Complex Texts Summer 2020, 2021
Selected Publications
Beckert, B., Brown, M., Finton, E., Lim, A., Loh, T., Mora, J., Lieberman, A. (in press). Language deprivation: A study of the history, use, and response to a new label for a long-known phenomenon. Deaf Studies Digital Journal.
Manz, E., & Beckert, B. (accepted). Quantification and scaling in children’s investigative work. Science and Education.
Lee & Low Books, Jiménez, L., Beckert, B. (2019). Where is the diversity in publishing?: The 2019 Diversity Baseline Survey results. Retrieved from https://blog.leeandlow.com/2020/01/28/2019diversitybaselinesurvey/
Manz, E., Arnold, S., Bazinet, C., Beckert, B., Garity, D., George, G., O’Brien, P., & O’Reilly, L. (2019). Designing ‘productive uncertainty’ into investigations to support meaningful engagement in science practices. STEM Teaching Tools Initiative, Institute for Science + Math Education. University of Washington. Retrieved from http://stemteachingtools.org/brief/60
Selected Presentations
Beckert, B. (2021, November). Exploring the Multimodal Literacy Ecology of a Signing Deaf Child. Lightning talk presented at the Learning Sciences Graduate Student Conference, Urbana-Champaign, IL. [virtual]
Beckert, B., Stoler, A., Georgen, C., Manz, E., & Suarez, E. (2021, June). Designing for home-based science learning: Infrastructuring within new openings and constraints. Poster presented at the International Society of the Learning Sciences Conference. Bochum, Germany. [virtual]
Manz, E. & Beckert, B. (2021, April) Using Iterative Co-Design to Develop Classroom Empirical Activity. Paper presented at the NARST 94th Annual Conference. [virtual]
Wilhelm, A. G and Beckert, B. (2020, April). Are Elementary (Generalist) Teachers' Instructional Visions General? Comparing Teachers’ Instructional Visions across Disciplines. Poster to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA. [cancelled]
Manz, E and Beckert, B. (2020, March). Using Iterative Co-Design to Develop Classroom Empirical Activity. Paper to be presented at the Annual International Meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Portland, OR. [cancelled]
Beckert, B. (2020, February). Talking Back to Dominant Narratives Through Comics. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research, Nashville, TN.
Beckert, B. (2020, November). Talking Back to Dominant Narratives Through Comics: An Analysis of That Deaf Guy. Poster presented at the Learning Sciences Graduate Student Conference, Madison, WI. [virtual]