{"id":22054,"date":"2016-07-01T12:21:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T16:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=22054"},"modified":"2023-09-12T15:55:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T19:55:36","slug":"catherine-oconnor","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/profile\/catherine-oconnor\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine O&#8217;Connor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Catherine O\u2019Connor is professor of education and linguistics at Boston University Wheelock College of Education &amp; Human Development. Her work in education explores the teacher\u2019s role in creating inclusive, equitable, and conceptually fruitful classroom discussion. She has focused on the role of discussion in support of student reasoning in literacy and mathematics learning in a variety of school settings, leading to funded research projects, research publications, and materials for teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. O\u2019Connor\u2019s work in linguistics centers on language documentation of endangered languages, including work on Northern Pomo, a dormant language of Northern California, and Medumba, a language of Cameroon. Her ongoing work in Northern Pomo supports recent advances in the revitalization of the language among descendants of the original speakers. She is currently working with members of Northern Pomo tribal communities to create curriculum for tribal revitalization efforts, including a sequence of high school courses being taught in Ukiah, CA.\u00a0 She also recently created a course in the Linguistics Department titled \u201cLanguage Documentation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. O\u2019Connor has authored or co-authored four books and over 75 refereed journal articles and book chapters. She has given over 80 invited presentations and over 75 refereed presentations at conferences. Since 2010, she has taken on a variety of administrative roles, including department chair, associate dean for faculty, and associate dean for doctoral studies. From 2017 to 2018, Dr. O\u2019Connor served as Dean <em>ad interim<\/em> of the BU School of Education and played a role in the merger that created the BU Wheelock College of Education &amp; Human Development.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"profile-section-label\">Recent News<\/h3>\n\n","protected":false},"author":5224,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/22054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5224"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/22054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72535,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/22054\/revisions\/72535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}