Lucy Mule

Assistant Professor

Phone: (413) 585-3263

Office: 303 Morgan Hall

Email: lmule@smith.edu

Degrees:
B.Ed. Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, PA U.S.A

Research Interests:

University-School-community partnerships, Preservice teacher education reform, Multicultural Curriculum development, sociocultural contexts of language and literacy education.

Teaching Interests:

Multicultural education, comparative education, and sociocultural contexts of language and literacy.

Other Interests:

Co-direct a program called the Smith College Urban Educational Initiative. Serves as the Study Abroad Advisor for the department. 

Courses:
Multicultural Education
Comparative Education
Language in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Introduction to American Education
Secondary and Middle School Teaching Methods in the Humanities

Representative Publications:

Feast or Famine for Female Education in Kenya? A Structural Approach to Gender Equity, A chapter in M. Maslak (ed.), The Structure and Agency of Women's Education. State University of New York Press, 2007.

Preservice Teachers' Inquiry in a Professional Development School Context: Implications for the Practicum, Teaching and Teacher Education, vol.22 (2), 2006.

A review of Black Ants and Buddhists: Thinking Critically and Teaching Differently in the Primary grades, Teacher Education and Practice, vol. 19 (1), 2006.

Experiencing a Learning Community: Lessons from Interns Learning to Teach in a Yearlong Professional Development School (PDS) Internship, Teacher Education and Practice, vol. 18(3), 2005

"Africa is not a Country": Reflections on the Teaching about Africa in Elementary Social Studies Classrooms, Electronic Magazine for Multicultural Education 6(1),(spring) 2004.

With Belinda Gilbert, Models of Collaboration, Pennsylvania Educational Leadership: The Journal of Pennsylvania Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, vol. 20 (2), 2001.

The Role of Indigenous Languages in the Curriculum: What happened to Kiswahili in Kenya? Chapter in Semali, L. & J. Kicheloe (eds.), What is Indigenous Knowledge? Voices from the Academy. New York: Garland, 1999.

Rosetta Marantz Cohen

Susan Etheredge

Sue J. M. Freeman

Janice Gatty

Sam Intrator

Alan L. Marvelli

Lucy Mule

Al Rudnitsky

Cathy Topal

Jack Czajkowski