Dr. Janet Bean

Dr. Janet Bean

Title: Director, Institute for Teaching and Learning; Professor
Dept/Program: OAA, English
Office: Leigh Hall 407
Phone: 330-972-6462
Email: jbean@uakron.edu
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Biography

Janet Bean serves as director of the Institute for Teaching and Learning. She also teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in composition studies in the English Department. Her research interests include writing pedagogy, general education, assessment of student learning, and faculty development.

Publications

  • Bean, Janet, Chris Beaudoin, Tania von der Heidt, David Lewis, and Carol Van Zile-Tamsen. “Frames, Definitions, and Drivers: A Multinational Study of Institutionally Required Undergraduate Capstones.” Cultivating Capstones: Designing High-Quality Culminating Experiences for Student Learning, edited by Caroline Ketcham, Tony Weaver, and Jessie Moore, Stylus, 2023, pp. 27-39.
  • Lewis, David, Janet Bean, Chris Beaudoin, Tania von der Heidt, and Carol Van Zile-Tamsen. “Preparing Students for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.” Cultivating Capstones: Designing High-Quality Culminating Experiences for Student Learning, edited by Caroline Ketcham, Tony Weaver, and Jessie Moore, Stylus, 2023, pp. 85-97.
  • Heidt, Tania von der, Janet Bean, Chris Beaudoin, David Lewis, and Carol Van Zile-Tamsen. “How Two Australian Universities Achieved ‘Capstones for All’: A Change Management Perspective.” Cultivating Capstones: Designing High-Quality Culminating Experiences for Student Learning, edited by Caroline Ketcham, Tony Weaver, and Jessie Moore, Stylus, 2023 pp. 99-110.
  • Van Zile-Tamsen, Carol, Janet Bean, Chris Beaudoin, Tania von der Heidt, David Lewis. “Where There's a Will There's a Way: Implementing a Capstone Experience for General Education.” Cultivating Capstones: Designing High-Quality Culminating Experiences for Student Learning, edited by Caroline Ketcham, Tony Weaver, and Jessie Moore, Stylus, 2023, pp. 73-82.
  • Bean, Janet. "Critical Literacy for Older Adults: Engaging (and Resisting) Transformative Education as a United Methodist Woman." Literacy in Composition Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2018, pp. 59-75.
  • Bean, Janet. “Under the Northern Star: A Year of Teaching in Finland.” Writing on the Edge vol. 25, no. 2, 2015, pp. 69-82.
  • Bean, Janet and Peter Elbow. “Free Speech and Freewriting:  A Pragmatic Perspective.”  Journal of Teaching Writing, vol. 25, no. 1, 2009, pp. 1-23. Reprinted in The Best of the Independent Rhetoric and Composition Journals 2010, edited by Steve Parks, Linda Adler-Kassner, Brian Bailie, and Collette Caton, Parlor Press, 2011, pp. 165-184.
  • Bean, Janet. “Composing Academic Identities: African-American Students as Language Researchers.” International Journal of Learning, vol. 12, no. 8, 2006, pp. 241-248. 
  • Bean, Janet, Marianne Cucchiara, Robert Eddy, Peter Elbow, Rhonda Grego, Rich Haswell, Patricia Irvine, Eileen Kennedy, Ellie Kutz, Al Lehner, and Paul Kei Matsuda. “Should We Invite Students to Write in Home Languages? Complicating the Yes/No Debate.”  Composition Studies, vol. 31, no. 1, 2003, pp. 25-42. Reprinted in Second-Language Writing in the Composition Classroom: A Critical Sourcebook, edited by Paul Kei Matsuda, Michelle Cox, Jay Jordan, and Christina Ortmeier-Hooper, Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006, pp. 225-240.
  • Bean, Janet. “Manufacturing Emotions: Tactical Resistance in the Narratives of Working Class Students.” Ways to Move: Rhetorics of Emotion and Composition Studies, edited by Laura Miccicche and Dale Jacobs, Heinemann, 2003, pp. 147-160.
  • Bean, Janet. “The Color Line: African-American Vernacular English and Computerized Grammar Checkers.” Included in English Studies, edited by Shelli Fowler and Victor Villanueva, American Association of Higher Education, 2002, pp. 143-155.
  • Bean, Janet. “Feminine Discourse in the University:  The Writing Center Conference as a Site of Linguistic Resistance.” Feminism and Empirical Writing Research: Emerging Perspectives, edited by Joanne Addison and Sharon McGee, Heinemann, 1999, pp. 127-144.
  • Bean, Janet. “An Approach to Critical Writing: Begin with Contradictions.”  Literature and Life: Making Connections in the Classroom. Classroom Practices in Teaching English, vol. 25, edited by Patricia Phelan, NCTE, 1990, pp. 175-180.

Grants

  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute, “Inclusive Excellence 3: Building Institutional Capacity for Student Belonging,” 2022-2028. $529,000. Program Director, with Rich Londraville, Jutta Luettmer-Stratham, and Sheldon Wrice (Co-PDs).
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute, “Inclusive Excellence 3 Learning Community—Phase I,” 2021-2023. $30,000. Co-Program Director with John Huss (Co-PD).
  • Ohio Department of Education, “Young Entrepreneurs Consortium Dual Credit Credentialing Program,” 2015-2016. $109,260 of $364,141 total grant. Co-Project Director with Hillary Nunn (Co-PD) and Bill Hauser (PD).
  • Ohio Board of Regents, “Ohio Writing Institute Network for Success,” 2004-2009.  $134,910. Co-Project Director with Lance Svehla (Co-PD).
  • Ohio Board of Regents, "Early English Composition Assessment Program," 2000-2003. $91,397. Co-Project Director with Lance Svehla (Co-PD).

Education

Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Greensboro