Faculty

Meredith McConnochie, Ph.D.

Early Childhood/Special Education Program Director and
Associate Professor of Education Joined USJ: 2017

Academic Degrees Ph.D., Rutgers University
M.A., Teachers College, Columbia University
B.S., Carnegie Mellon University

Contact Information

Mangual Figueroa, A. & McConnochie, M. (2021). Critical language ethnography as a community-centered research paradigm. In C. Clauss-Ehlers (Ed). The Cambridge Handbook of Community Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Contextual Perspectives. New York: Cambridge University Press.
McConnochie M. (2024). Reframing English Learners and Latinx Families as ‘First-class Multilingual Citizens’ in the New Latino Diaspora of New Jersey. In E. Hamann, S. Herrera, S. Wortham, & E. Murillo (Eds). Teaching and Learning in the New Latino Diaspora: Creating Culturally Responsive Practice. Teachers College Press.
McConnochie, M. (2022). “Needs to put in more effort”: How teachers deficit beliefs frame the moral worth of Latinx students and families in school-based discourses. Journal of Latinos and Education.
McConnochie, M. (2021). Co-constructing frames of peer help during Writers Workshop in a second grade bilingual class. Journal of Language, Identity, and Education.
McConnochie, M. & González, E. (2023). Developing Critical Language Awareness through Narrative (Funds of) Knowledging. 2023 Special Issue: Journal of Language, Identity, and Education.
McConnochie, M. & Mangual Figueroa, A. (2017). “Dice que es bajo” (“She says he’s low”): Negotiating breaches of learner identity in two Mexican families. Linguistics and Education.