Sarah Jerasa
Biographic Data
| ID | 5971329 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Jerasa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Jerasa |
| SIGNATURE | JERASA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clemson University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8969-0383 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Open Classroom Climate
In this paper, we apply the principles of Relational-Developmental Systems to explain the role classrooms and schools play in youths’ adaptive development. Taking an applied developmental perspective, we argue that an open classroom climate —where students perceive teachers to be supportive of diverse perspectives and welcoming of discussion about controversial social and political issues—is both a developmental asset and a necessary feature of c…
Curating for the classroom
Platforms such as TikTok are increasingly used for teachers’ informal professional development, yet little is known about content quality or how background knowledge may shape curation. We examined preservice teachers’ (PSTs’) selection of short-form social media classroom management videos as their knowledge of adolescent development increased. In total, 186 videos at preassessment and 173 at postassessment were analyzed using Kwok’s CM PReP fra…
Teaching through content area texts
Preservice teachers' (PSTs) purposes for selecting texts hold important implications for K–12 learners, yet PSTs often engage in self-censorship that limits the integration of diverse and equity-oriented materials. Using anti-bias pedagogies and the Intercultural Development Continuum (IDC) as guiding frameworks, this mixed-methods study examines how PSTs' descriptions of content-area text selections reveal their future approaches to anti-bias co…
The #BookTok Connection
BookTok, the TikTok sub-community for readers, has reshaped publishing and digital reading trends where marginalized readers find space to promote diverse books and stories beyond mainstream norms. This paper explores how three international #BookTokers with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds have found community, identity, and activism within this space, highlighting #BookTok’s role in fostering inclusive and affirming literary communit…
Learning from TikTok
TikTok and other social media platforms have rapidly grown in popularity as a means for teachers to network and share pedagogical information and classroom practices. Classroom management is a particularly important skill for teachers as a support for students’ academic, social, and emotional development and teacher well-being; however, many teachers have underdeveloped skills in this area, highlighting the need for professional development oppor…
The Science of Reading on Social Media
The Science of Reading (SOR) has become a public discourse with educational stakeholders, impacting legislative policy, reading content, curricula, and pedagogy across schools. Public engagement in this movement has transpired on social media, including TikTok, where viral content often promotes narrow or binary viewpoints through an authoritative discourse. Using a digital ethnography and walkthrough method, we collected and examined 156 TikTok …
BookTok 101
There has been a noticeable shift in how young readers approach reading where digital literacy communities serve as much purpose as traditional literacy communities like an ELA classroom. This article offers an introduction to TikTok and BookTok as well as several methods of integrating TikTok into classrooms. As the sub‐community for book lovers and readers, BookTok is connected to a lineage of literacy practices. Despite the newness of TikTok, …
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BookTok 101
There has been a noticeable shift in how young readers approach reading where digital literacy communities serve as much purpose as traditional literacy communities like an ELA classroom. This article offers an introduction to TikTok and BookTok as well as several methods of integrating TikTok into classrooms. As the sub‐community for book lovers and readers, BookTok is connected to a lineage of literacy practices. Despite the newness of TikTok, …
The #BookTok Connection
BookTok, the TikTok sub-community for readers, has reshaped publishing and digital reading trends where marginalized readers find space to promote diverse books and stories beyond mainstream norms. This paper explores how three international #BookTokers with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds have found community, identity, and activism within this space, highlighting #BookTok’s role in fostering inclusive and affirming literary communit…
Learning from TikTok
TikTok and other social media platforms have rapidly grown in popularity as a means for teachers to network and share pedagogical information and classroom practices. Classroom management is a particularly important skill for teachers as a support for students’ academic, social, and emotional development and teacher well-being; however, many teachers have underdeveloped skills in this area, highlighting the need for professional development oppor…
The Science of Reading on Social Media
The Science of Reading (SOR) has become a public discourse with educational stakeholders, impacting legislative policy, reading content, curricula, and pedagogy across schools. Public engagement in this movement has transpired on social media, including TikTok, where viral content often promotes narrow or binary viewpoints through an authoritative discourse. Using a digital ethnography and walkthrough method, we collected and examined 156 TikTok …
Open Classroom Climate
In this paper, we apply the principles of Relational-Developmental Systems to explain the role classrooms and schools play in youths’ adaptive development. Taking an applied developmental perspective, we argue that an open classroom climate —where students perceive teachers to be supportive of diverse perspectives and welcoming of discussion about controversial social and political issues—is both a developmental asset and a necessary feature of c…
Curating for the classroom
Platforms such as TikTok are increasingly used for teachers’ informal professional development, yet little is known about content quality or how background knowledge may shape curation. We examined preservice teachers’ (PSTs’) selection of short-form social media classroom management videos as their knowledge of adolescent development increased. In total, 186 videos at preassessment and 173 at postassessment were analyzed using Kwok’s CM PReP fra…
Teaching through content area texts
Preservice teachers' (PSTs) purposes for selecting texts hold important implications for K–12 learners, yet PSTs often engage in self-censorship that limits the integration of diverse and equity-oriented materials. Using anti-bias pedagogies and the Intercultural Development Continuum (IDC) as guiding frameworks, this mixed-methods study examines how PSTs' descriptions of content-area text selections reveal their future approaches to anti-bias co…
Literacy, Media, and Education (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (3 works) · Content analysis (3 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (3 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Educational technology (2 works)