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Dr. Megan Brown taught K-6th grade in numerous positions in public elementary schools in New York before moving to Columbus to pursue a Ph.D. in Teaching and Learning from The Ohio State University. She is certified to teach both elementary and special education at the primary level. She began working at Cedarville University in 2018 as an instructor in the Early Childhood program teaching literacy and children's literature courses.

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About Megan Brown, Ph.D.

Dr. Megan Brown taught K-6th grade in numerous positions in public elementary schools in New York before moving to Columbus to pursue a Ph.D. in Teaching and Learning from The Ohio State University. She is certified to teach both elementary and special education at the primary level. She began working at Cedarville University in 2018 as an instructor in the Early Childhood program teaching literacy and children's literature courses.

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Present	Assistant Professor of Education, Cedarville University ‐ School of Education
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Preservice teacher education, Children's and young adult literature, Disability studies, Visual literacies, and Drama in education

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Present	Member, American Library Association
Present	Member, Association for Library Service to Children
Present	Member, International Literacy Association
Present	Member, Phi Kappa Phi

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Honors and Awards

College of Education and Human Ecology Office of Research Graduate Student Travel Award, The Ohio State University - 2018
Dorothy McAllister & George L. Lewis Memorial Scholarship, The Ohio State University - 2016
Excellence in Education Award, Ohio Magazine - 2019
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Committee, American Library Association - 2023

Courses

EDSP 3100: Diagnostics and Intervention in Reading
EDSP 4400: Assessment in Special Education
EDSP 4900: Student Teaching Supervision
EDEC 3950: Early Childhood Clinical Supervision
EDMC 3600: Phonics and the Structure of Language
EDSP 2500: Survey of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
EDEC 2100: Art and Music for Early Childhood
EDSP 2100: Exceptionalities and Behavior

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	B.S., Messiah University
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	M.A., Hollins University
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	Ph.D., The Ohio State University
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Dissertation (1)

Judging Disability by Its Cover: A Nested Case Study of Student Perceptions of "Normal" Childhoods in and on Middle Grade Novels (Megan R. Brown) Faculty Dissertations (2019)

This three-fold dissertation examines the semiotic and textual ways that children’s literature is mediated by fifth-grade students’ conceptualizations of “normal” childhoods. Through a nested case study, I examined the discourses of a small group of ...

Book Chapters (2)

Tell Me Who I Am: An Investigation of Cultural Authenticity in YA Disability Narratives (Megan R. Brown) Education Faculty Publications (2020)

Promoting Literacy and Language-learning in Special Education Through Drama-based Pedagogies (A. Anderson, B. Lee and Megan R. Brown) Examining the Intersection of Arts and Special Education (2017)

Journal Articles (3)

The Effect of Drama-based Pedagogies on K-12 Literacy-related Outcomes: A Meta-analysis of 30 Years of Research (Bridget Kiger Lee, Patricia Enciso and Megan R. Brown) International Journal of Education & the Arts (2020)

A recent national report heartily supported arts integration as an effective, innovative, and cost-efficient way to address teachers’ and students’ needs; however, the report called for a better understanding of when, for whom, and what ...

Dwarfism on Display: Analysing the Visual Rhetorics of Book Covers on Four Children’s Literature Chapter Books (Megan R. Brown) Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies (2020)

Realistic children’s literature that includes characters who are dwarfs often draws on stigmatizing rhetorics which promote commodification of freakery for the gain of nondisabled readers while reifying dominant ablest understandings of disability. The article argues ...

Swimming Against the Tide: Disability Represented Through Fish Symbolism in (and on) Middle Grade and Young Adult Novels (Megan R. Brown) Children's Literature in Education (2017)

Mainstream American culture still commonly considers disabilities as defects. Whether physical, emotional, or mental in nature, these features are hindering an individual, separating them from the perceived norm, and having a negative impact on their ...

Book Reviews (1)

Book review: The Oldest Student (Literacy - Not Just for Elementary School) (Megan R. Brown) Education Insights: Journal of Research and Practice (2022)

A review of the book The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read, highlighting the importance of learning to read to access God’s written word, a skill that has no age limit.

Conference Presentations (19)

Virtual Family Connections That Work (Lori K. Ferguson and Megan R. Brown) American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education Annual Meeting (2022)

Judging Books: Using Covers to Promote Diverse Book Analysis (Megan R. Brown) LitCon22, Concurrent and Continued Engagement Sessions (2022)

Close Reading Illustrated (Megan R. Brown, Ruth Sylvester and Tianhong Zhang) Ohio Council of Teachers of English Language Arts (2020)

In this interactive session, participants explore ways to introduce students to the construction of illustrations through the creation of visual texts using colored geometric shapes of varying sizes. Also explored are ways to implement this ...

Examining Representation in Primary Ancient Text and Retellings: David and Goliath (Betty Ruth Sylvester, Megan R. Brown and Sharon Kerestes) National Council of Teachers of English (2019)

Cracking Open an Idea: Preservice Teachers Using Lesson Study to Reevaluate Read Aloud Lessons (Megan R. Brown) Literacy Research Association Annual Conference (2018)

They’re Different but They’re Not Different: An Analysis of Disability as Nonnormative Other (Megan R. Brown) American Educational Research Association (2018)

I Should Have Asked Why: Preservice Teachers Reflections on How They Languaged Relationships with Students (M. Hikida, Megan R. Brown and F. Beauchemin) National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research Conference (2018)

I Should Have Asked Why: Preservice Teachers Reflections on How They Languaged Relationships with Students (M. Hikida, M. Wilson, Megan R. Brown, et al.) American Educational Research Association (2018)

Accurate Enough?: Representations of Disability in Children’s Literature (Megan R. Brown and A. Myers) International Literacy Association Conference (2017)

Judging by the First Look: Changing Representation of Disability on Book Covers (Megan R. Brown) International Research Society for Children’s Literature (2017)

Tell Me Who I Am: An Investigation of Cultural Authenticity in YA Disability Narratives (Megan R. Brown) American Literature Association (2017)

Drama, Literacy, and Anti-oppressive Pedagogy (B. Edmiston, Megan R. Brown, S. Fatani, et al.) Drama and Literacy Study Group, Literacy Research Association Conference (2016)

Eventful Teaching: Toward a Pedagogy of Comprehension as Dialogic Sense-making Using Dramatic Inquiry (B. Edmiston, M. Whittaker, Megan R. Brown, et al.) Literacy Research Association Conference (2016)

The Effects of Drama-based Pedagogies on Literacy-related K-16 Student Outcomes: A Meta-analysis of the Research (B. Lee, Megan R. Brown and P. Enciso) Literacy Research Association Conference (2016)

Judging a Tomboy by Her Cover: Investigating Initial Tomboy Images on Book Covers (Megan R. Brown) Children’s Literature Association Conference (2016)

The Effects of Drama-based Pedagogies on Literacy-related K-16 Student Outcomes: A Meta-analysis of the Research (B. Lee, P. Enciso and Megan R. Brown) Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (2016)

Looking for Normal and Finding More: Literature for the Gifted Child (Megan R. Brown) Dublin Literacy Conference (2016)

Taking the Journey with Edward: Free Writing as Differentiated Learning (Megan R. Brown) Annual Conference of the Ohio Conference of Teachers of English Language Arts (2016)

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