School of Education

I am an educational researcher specializing in qualitative inquiry, particularly case studies involving interviews and videography. Analytic approaches include discourse analysis, thematic analysis, and video analysis.

My current research focuses on Six Standards Instructional Coaching, particularly as relates to the US Dept. of Ed. NPD grant funded project, Partnering for Radical School Improvement. My research interests include dialogic interaction and pedagogy, personal and professional identity, teacher agency and professional development, school-family partnerships, Deleuzoguattarian rhizomatic theory, and qualitative research methodology.

I have extensive experience teaching English as a Foreign Language abroad, mainly in South Korea at the postsecondary level. I am a Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (Ukraine, group 29, 2005-2008).

• Qualitative Research Method and Methodology
• Educational Technology
• English as a Foreign Language
• Professional Learning

• Qualitative method and methodology
• Teacher Learning
• Classrooms
• Dialogic Learning
• Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy
• Sociocultural Theory and Learning
• Critical Pedagogy
• Action Research
• Teacher and Learner Identity
• Instructional Technology
• Sense-making
• Educational Philosophy
• Non-linear theory
• Posthumanism
• Barad, Deleuze and Guattari
• Symbolic Interactionism
• Constructivism

Selected Publications:

• Troubling methodology through dialogic meta-ethnography2020, Cultural Studies of Science Education (online)Sherman, Bateman, Jeong, and Hudock
• Assisted performance through instructional coaching: A critical sociocultural perspective. Book chapter2019, Perspectives on Language in Action, Multilingual Matters, Bristol, U.K.Haneda, Sherman, and Teemant
• Ways of interacting: What underlies instructional coaches' discursive actions2019, Teaching and Teacher Education, 78
• Haneda, Sherman, Nebus-Bose, and Teemant
• ESL Teachers Acting Agentively through Job Crafting2018, Journal of Language, Identity & Education, 17(6)Haneda and Sherman
• Instructional Coaching through Dialogic Interaction: Helping a Teacher become Agentic in her Practice2016, Language and Education, 31Haneda, Teemant, and Sherman

For complete list see: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brandon_Sherman

Partnering for Radical School Change: A US Dept of Education OELA NPD grant with five major research/professional development strands:

Selected Presentations:

• Investing in ourselves: Instructional coaching as a space for negotiation of professional identity and languageeducation.Sherman & Teemant2019 International Language Teacher Education ConferenceMinneapolis, MN
• Coaching and Teacher-Becoming: A Rhizomatic Inquiry into Teacher/CoachInteraction as Assemblage.Presidential Session, Non-Linear Perspectives on Teacher Development Across the Professional Continuum2019 AERA Annual MeetingToronto, Canada
• Exploring the Culture of Instructional ICT use in an Educational ContextSymposium Session on Dialogic Meta-Ethnography2018 AERA Annual MeetingNew York, NY
• Representation of Discourse and Interaction: Returning to Transciption as TheorizationHaneda, Sherman, Nebus-Bose, Daymon Amory, & Blair2017 American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Annual conference, Portland, OR
• Language Learning through Digital BricolageSherman & Briggs2016 SAI Joint International Conference, Seoul, South Korea

Project manager funded by NPD grant

• INTESOL
• AERA