Melanie Brooks

From FSU Libraries Subject Pages

Education Subject Specialist
Strozier Library, Room 209A
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee, FL 32306
Phone: (850) 645-7447
Email: mcbrooks@fsu.edu

Job Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to the College of Education and to the departments of Sociology and International studies to develop their collections as well as providing research consultations and upper level instruction.

Liaison Areas

• International Studies
• Middle and Secondary Education
• Sociology

Education

• M.L.S. - Information Science and Learning Technologies - University of Missouri-Columbia
• M.Ed. - Curriculum & Instruction - University of Missouri-Columbia

Selected Work History

• Library Media Specialist - Rickards High School - Tallahassee, FL
• U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer - English as a Foreign Language Teacher - Thailand

Selected Publications

• Brooks, M.C. (in review). Coming home to Islam: A teacher's spiritual and professional journey. International Journal of Qualitative Research.

• Brooks, J. S., Hughes, R., & Brooks, M. C. (in press). Fear and trembling in the American high school: Educational reform and teacher alienation. Educational Policy.

• Brooks, M.C. (2007). Australian aboriginal education: Rethinking its "false maps" from a general semantics perspective. Etc: A Review of General Semantics, 64(2), p. 135-143.

• Brooks, M.C. (in press). Hegemony. In E. Provenzo (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.

• Brooks, J. S., & Brooks, M.C. (2006). Some "new" extensional devices2006. Etc: A Review of General Semantics, 63(1), p. 62-68.

• Brooks, M.C., & Brooks, J.S. (2005). Whole language or phonics: Improving language instruction through general semantics. Etc: A Review of General Semantics, 62(3), 271-280.

Professional Affiliations

• American Educational Research Association
• American Library Association Comparative *International Education Society