This is a listing of faculty in the Deparment of Education who will be teaching in the Ed.D. program and who may be able to join dissertation committees, depending upon interest and availability.
| Faculty Member | Interests |
|---|---|
| Brice,Lynn M . | My interests are in qualitative research including ethnography, sociolinguistics, narrative, life stories, and self-study. I am also interested in oral history, new rural history, and local history research. Philosphy of education, curriculum theory, critical theory, curriculum and pedagogy, professioal development,communication education and partnerships are also areas of scholarship. Among my teaching and instruction interests - social studies education, public history, curriculum theory, learning theory, responsive curriculum. |
| Damme, Susan R. | My research interests include working with learning communities, especially online learning communities, and critical pedagogy, integrating the use of technology. |
| Fairbanks, Priscilla A. | Examining the relationship between parental involvement and academic achievement within an Ojibwe population. I'm also interested in documenting boarding school stories from Native people who have attended a government- or church-operated boarding school, from any time frame up to the present. My research interests relate to the relationship between parental involvement and academic achievement, particularly with an Ojibwe population. |
| Glisczinski, Daniel Joseph | I'm interested in learning more about experiences that transform our perspectives on ourselves, others, and our worlds. Transformative learning theory suggests that such experiences create increasingly deep and accurate understandings of society. I'm currently working on project aimed at better understanding how intercultural and international education assist in cognitive and affective transformation. The aim of improving such understanding is to develop curriculum and related experiences that support perspective transformation as a central aim in the lives of all learners.
My research focuses on experiences that transform people's perspectives toward greater accuracy, inclusiveness, and insight. Ranging from international education, to experiential education, to education psychology, and education technology, I'm interested in studying conditions that help create useful cognitive dissonance, critical reflection, rational dialogue, and active experimentation in pursuit of deeper understanding. |
Guldbrandsen, Frank A. (senior member) |
My research interests tend to fall into two camps. First, I have been teaching and writing about foundations of education for the past thirty five years. Secondly, I have been a student of the martial art of Aikido since the mid 80s and have had the opportunity to write several articles about the practice and theory of that art. |
| Hazareesingh, Nedra A. | Teacher tenure process and assessment - Teaching and learning in diverse settings - Mentoring diverse populations - Peer mentoring - Cosleeping and family bed research |
| Hermes, Mary Rose (senior member) | Language and culture in curriculum and instruction (especially American Indian education) Indigenous language revitalization, especially Ojibwe and materials design. Social justice and qualitative methods Postmodern, feminist theory Socio-linguistics and educational anthropology |
| Hughes, Trudie Ann | Research based interventions for students with Autism, pre-service teacher training with English Language Learners, effectiveness of repeated readings and read naturally strategies, teacher training in co-teaching within inclusive classroom settings |
| Hyman, Randy Emerson (senior member) | |
| Kiefer-O'Donnell, Richard | Effective instruction for students with severe disabilities, rural service delivery, distance education and distributed learning, effective service for students with autism. |
| Kwako, Joan | I am interested in a number of different research areas: - Collaborative testing in undergraduate mathematics: having students take tests in groups to increase their learning while decreasing the anxiety of the testing situation - Using social, economic, and political justice issues as contexts in which to teach mathematics at the elementary and secondary levels - Grading without grades: using formative feedback instead of letter or numerical grades on education major’s daily assignments and projects - Teaching mathematics methods in an authentic setting: including high school math teachers in a secondary mathematics methods course by teaching it at the high school at which the undergraduates are apprenticing |
| Marchel, Mary A. | Assistive Technology, Aualitative Inquiry, Personnel Preparation |
| Miller-Cleary, Linda | |
| Minkkinen, Molly Harney | |
| Mongan-Rallis, Helen | My research is in distance education and in teaching with technology. |
| Munson, Bruce H. | 1. The learning and teaching of ecological principles 2. Conceptual understandings of limology and oceanography 3. Learning through inquiry 4. Teacher development |
| Mweti, Chang'aa | |
| Niergarten, Gerry | Co-teaching and collaboration with public schools. |
| Onchwari, Jacqueline Ariri | Influences of Mental Health on Academics Immigrant children in the classroom My research interests are: stress in young children and how teachers handle it. I am also interested in the immmigrant child's experiences in the education system. Just use the official picture.. |
| Peacock, Thomas D. (senior member) | To Be Free - a book on racism for middle school age students. |
| Shannon, Terrie M. | |
| Stevenson, Jean Myers | 1-All aspects of literacy (reading, writing, speaking, and listening). I wrote my dissertation on the writing processes of professional writers who write for children--using primary sources. |
| Strand, Joyce (senior member) | |
| Williams, Julie Marie | Professional development in its many, many forms, leadership, continuous improvement processes and measurement, program evaluation, classroom assessment, large-scale assessment, the changing role of principals and superintendents, site-based decision-making, shared decision-making processes, strategic planning, data-based decision-making, curriculum development, and the effects of legislation on schools. |
| Wright, Mary Frances | |
| Yoon, Jiyoon | Inquiry-based science teaching methods with the aid of technology for K-6 and parents education. |