Mercer University

Faculty Member, College of Education

Assistant Professor

Tift College of Education

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Dr. Berry’s scholarship focuses on curriculum theory, critical race feminism, qualitative research, and urban teacher education.  More specifically, her work addresses the importance of educational memoir in the development of teachers and teacher leaders.  Dr. Berry’s early work focuses the use of educational memoir integrated with bell hooks’ notion of engaged pedagogy for African American female pre-service teachers.  Subsequently, she has expanded her work to address the use of educational memoir in hooks’ engaged pedagogy for White female pre-service teachers in urban schools and the connections of curriculum theory, critical race feminism, and education through memoir.  Dr. Berry’s scholarship continues to examine the connections between curriculum theory, critical race feminism, teacher education, and teacher leadership through such topics as culture, diversity, and social justice.  Theodorea Berry currently serves as the President of the Critical Race Studies in Education Association (CRSEA) and Chair, Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).  She is an active member of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA) and the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (AAACS).  She has published several articles and book chapters and is lead editor and contributing author of From Oppression to Grace: Women of Color and their Dilemmas Within the Academy (2006, Stylus Publishing).  She is also co-editing The Evolving Significance of Race: Living, Learning, and Teaching (2012,Peter Lang). 

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