Monday, October 7, 2013

FACULTY POSITION The International and Multicultural Education (IME) Department in the School of Education of the University of San Francisco invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)/Critical Language Studies


INTERNATIONAL AND MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

TESOL/Critical Language Studies

The International and Multicultural Education (IME) Department in the School of Education of the University of San Francisco invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)/Critical Language Studies at the Assistant Professor level commencing Fall 2014. We are particularly looking for a candidate with a strong background in preparing students to teach English to Speakers of Other Languages and a background in historical and contemporary issues related to these areas:

  • language, power and inequality
  • critical applied linguistics
  • critical discourse analysis
  • bilingualism and multilingualism

This position involves coordinating the TESOL program and teaching graduate courses in the areas of second language acquisition, applied linguistics and bilingualism as well as coordinating the expanding MA-TESOL program.
Since its inception in 1975, the International and Multicultural Education (IME) Department has been committed to understanding inequalities based on race, class, gender, and nationality as a way of promoting educational scholarship and research based on principles of equity and social justice. IME provides students with educational experiences that generate leadership, ethical responsibility and service to all communities with focused studies on formal and informal education within social, cultural, and linguistic contexts in both the United States and abroad.
The IME Department currently offers the following degrees:  Ed.D. in International and Multicultural Education (with optional concentrations in Second Language Acquisition and Human Rights Education), M.A. in International and Multicultural Education (with optional concentration in Human Rights Education), M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language (with a new online program as of Spring 2013), and M.A. in Human Rights Education.  The IME Department has always been innovative in its curriculum and scholarship, with a special focus on Freirean pedagogy and critical participatory action research.

The IME Department is actively seeking to expand the diversity of its faculty and student body. Applicants should meet the following requirements:

  1. An earned doctorate in Education or an appropriate discipline related to Critical Language Studies/TESOL.  Candidates nearing completion of their doctorates will be considered.
  2. Proven ability or potential to teach in and coordinate a graduate program in TESOL, particularly working with international students.
  3. Experience and expertise in university teaching at the graduate level.  Ability to guide doctoral students in the research and writing stages of their dissertations; interest in chairing and serving on doctoral dissertation committees.
  4. Potential to teach courses in the General Education program.
  5. Ability to work effectively with a highly collegial and progressive faculty who are dedicated to educational excellence for all.
  6. Interest in collaboration, particularly with other departments in the School of Education.
  7. Evidence of active scholarship and a research agenda that advance international and multicultural education.

Applications will be reviewed beginning November 1, 2013.

Please send a letter of intent, curriculum vitae, three letters of reference and graduate transcripts to:

                        Search Committee:  International and Multicultural Education Department
                        University of San Francisco
                        2130 Fulton Street
                        San Francisco, CA  94117-1080

Established as San Francisco’s first institution of higher learning in 1855, the University of San Francisco currently serves 8,000 students in the arts and sciences, education, business, nursing, law, and professional studies. USF is a Jesuit institution with the principle aim of “educating minds and hearts to change the world.”

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