UNC School of Education

Clinical Assistant Professor of Literacy Studies

Coordinator of Literacy Program

T 919.843.5741
F 919.962.1533
barrette@email.unc.edu

301C Peabody Hall
CB 3500

Catherine “Elise” Barrett is a clinical assistant professor in the School of Education. A former middle school reading and language arts teacher, she currently teaches courses in the Middle School Program, Elementary Education Program and M.Ed. Program for Experienced Teachers. She coordinates the literacy track of the M.Ed. Program for Experienced Teachers and facilitates the Literacy (Reading/Language Arts) Add-On Licensure program.

Barrett’s scholarly interest focuses on the positive transformation education and literacy make in the lives of nontraditional college students, their children and their communities. Her further interests include how norms and language established within a group’s culture, class and race affect educational attainment and cultural mobility. Barrett is also active in the middle grades profession and is the faculty sponsor for the Collegiate Middle Level Association, whose members are students in the Middle Grades Education Program.

• Ed.D. 2005 - North Carolina State University, Higher Education Administration: Social structures and women's learning
• M.A. 1997 - St. Xavier University Education, Teaching and Leadership
• B.S. 1991 - Armstrong Atlantic State University, Middle School Education Language Arts/Social Studies/Reading

• Instruction of Middle School Language Arts
• Literacy Education

• Elementary and Middle-Grades Literacy Education Methods Courses
• Teaching and Differentiation
• Content Area Literacy

• Durham Public Schools - Award for Exceptional Efforts in Providing Education for Teachers and Teacher Assistants, May 2003
  
• Duke University Partners for Success Tutoring Program - Honored for service to Durham Public Schools and Students, December 1998

• The Learning Lab, FPG Elementary

Dissertation: Educational Experiences of First-Generation Women College Students of Nontraditional Age, NCSU, 2005

Barrett, E. (2001). The Impact of Early Childhood Education: A Closer Look at the Pre-School Experience and Brain Development and How the Brain is Wired. Presented at the 2001-2002 Educational Symposia Series, Sponsored by the Teaching Fellows and Ron Edmonds Scholars Program at North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina.

Ahrens, S., & Barrett, E. (1997). Social Skills and Problem Solving Abilities in a Middle School Advisory Setting. Chicago, IL: St. Xavier University.

Barrett, E. (1994). Mainstream Assistants. Chicago, IL: Northwest News.