Aleksandra Olszewska

Academic interests

linguistic justice; migration; teacher education for immigrant and bilingual students; bilingual education; multilingual identities and practices; language ideologies; humanizing research methods; narrative research; socially just pedagogies

Educational background

• 2020. Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction, ESOL/ Bilingual Education, School of Teaching and Learning, College of Education, University of Florida, USA
• 2013. M.A. Applied Linguistics, Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw, Poland
• 2013. Postgraduate Studies, Latin America in the Modern World, Center for Latin American Studies (CESLA), University of Warsaw, Poland
• 2012. Postgraduate Studies, Cultural Diplomacy, Collegium Civitas, Warsaw, Poland
• 2012. Erasmus Student Exchange, École de Traduction et Interprétation ISTI – Cooremans, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
• 2011. Bilateral Exchange Program (University of Warsaw award), Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, USA
• 2010. B.A. Applied Linguistics, Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw, Poland

Academic positions held

• Research Assistant, in Project STELLAR (Supporting Teachers of English Language Learners Across Rural Settings) funded by US Department of Education, Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA), Washington, DC. (P.I.: Maria R. Coady, Ph.D.), University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

• Research Assistant, Irving and Rose Fien Endowed Professorship (P.I.: Maria R. Coady, Ph.D.), University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

• Teaching Assistant, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Selected awards

• Fulbright Graduate Student Award 
• Delta Kappa Gamma Society International: World Fellowship 
• Finalist of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Second Language Research Special Interest Group (SIG) Outstanding Dissertation Award (2020)
• Early Career Scholar Speaker Award, International Symposium on Bilingualism ISB 13 (2021), University of Warsaw, Poland

Selected scientific events

• Multilingual identities in refugee-background students’ voices. Counter-stories from Poland. (2021). Paper presented at “Language and Migration: Experience and Memory” Symposium, co-sponsored by Migration Lab of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University and the Study Group for Language and the United Nation, USA (pre-recorded presentation and live presentation with discussion)

Courses taught

• TSL 4100 ESOL Curriculum, Methods & Assessment (Spring 2018), School of Teaching and Learning, University of Florida 
• TSL 4324 ESOL Strategies for the Content Area Teacher (Fall 2017), School of Teaching and Learning, University of Florida 

Publications

Olszewska, A., Bondy, E., Hagler, N., & Kim, H. J. (2021, in press). A humanizing pedagogy of engagement: beliefs and practices of award-winning instructors at a U.S. university. Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2021.1920575 

Coady, M. R., Miller, D., Zeyuan, J., Heffington, D. V., Lopez, M. P. S., Olszewska, A., De Jong, E., & Ankeny, R. (2019). Can English language learner teacher effectiveness be observed?: Validation of an ELL-Modified Danielson Group Model. TESOL Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.544

Coady, M. R., Heffington, D. V., Lopez, M. P. S., & Olszewska, A. (2019). Can a short term study abroad impact teacher dispositions towards English learners? Special topics issue. S. Yang & B. Ates (Eds). International Journal of TESOL and Learning, 8(2), 51-70. 

Coady, M. R., & Olszewska, A. (2019). A review of Teacher leadership for social change in bilingual and bicultural education, by D. K. Palmer, Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters. Kultura i Edukacja Journal, 2(124), 187-191. https://doi.org/10.15804/kie.2019.02.12

Coady, M. R., Olszewska, A., & Lopez, M. P. S. (2018). Scholarly contributions to twenty-first century multilingualism. A review of Shifting lenses: Multilanguaging, decolonisation and education in the global south, edited by L. Makalela, Cape Town, The Center for Advanced Studies. International Journal of Multilingualism, 15(4), 472-474. https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2018.1490743