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International reading group selects Lehman for top award
Barbara Lehman
Barbara Lehman, an award-winning professor of children's literature, Teaching and Learning, Mansfield, has received another top honor: the 2009 Arbuthnot Award. The award from the International Reading Association recognizes her as an outstanding professor of children's and young adults' literature.
Lehman received her doctorate at the University of Virginia and has been at the Mansfield campus since 1986. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on children's literature and literacy education. Her research is in child-centered literary criticism, international children's literature, and literature-based practices in elementary and middle school classrooms.
She has co-edited Teaching with Children's Books: Paths to Literature-based Instruction, co-authored Global Perspectives in Children's Literature, and authored Children's Literature and Learning: Literary Study Across the Curriculum. She was co-editor of Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature. She received the Mansfield Campus Excellence in Scholarship award (1995), the Ohioana James P. Barry award for Editorial Excellence (2000), and the Mansfield Campus Faculty Award for Excellence in Service (2008).
She will receive the Arbuthnot Award at the Book and Author luncheon at the International Reading Association convention in Minneapolis on May 7.
Lehman follows in the footsteps of four previous college faculty members. They are Janet Hickman, 2002; Rudine Sims Bishop, 1996; Bernice E. Cullinan, 1989; and the late Charlotte Huck, 1988. Lehman says, "I am deeply honored and humbled to be in the company of my role models and mentors. I dedicate this award to my wonderful students at Ohio State over the past 22 years."
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