Education

2014-15 General Catalog

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Program Description | Course Descriptions

Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor

Margaret (Greta) A. Gibson, Emerita

Ron Glass
Education as a practice of freedom; research for equity; ethical issues in collaborative research; moral and political philosophy and education; ideology and education; race and education; school reform; democracy and education

June A. Gordon
Urban education; international comparative education; the impact of economics, culture and politics on educational attitudes and expectations of immigrants; marginalized youth; schooling and society in Japan, China, India, the U.K., and the U.S.A.; sociology of education

Judit Moschkovich
Mathematical thinking and learning; student conceptions of functions; mathematical discourse; everyday mathematical practices; bilingual mathematics learners

Rodney Ogawa
Educational reform, the impact of social institutions on the structure of school organization, the impact of school organization on contexts for teaching and learning, and uses of information technology to redesign education

Brad Olsen
Teacher development (with emphasis on knowledge and identity), English education, and sociolinguistics

Art Pearl, Emeritus

Lucinda Pease-Alvarez
Language and literacy development, language-minority education, bilingualism, informal learning; teachers as policy makers

Trish Stoddart
Teacher education, science education, educational reform

David Swanger, Emeritus

Kip Téllez
Preparation of teachers for linguistic and cultural diversity, second language learning, studies of the school curriculum, educational assessment

Roland G. Tharp, Emeritus

C. Gordon Wells, Emeritus

Associate Professor

Doris Ash
Informal science learning, teacher professional development, science discourse in and out of the classroom

Lora Bartlett
Educational policy and school reform, schools as workplaces for teachers, the conditions of teachers’ commitment

George Bunch
Language and education in linguistically diverse settings, preparation of teachers for linguistic diversity, language policy, and bilingualism

Judith Scott
Literacy and language learning, particularly with students who depend on schools to learn about academic language; reading, writing, vocabulary development; vocabulary assessment; teachers’ professional development through collaboration and inquiry

Jerome Shaw
Scientific inquiry, specifically examining the science education experiences of English language learners and their teachers; includes examining ways in which assessments in English measure content knowledge versus language proficiency

Assistant Professor

Cynthia Cruz
Feminist ethnography; community-based learning; decolonial pedagogies; LGBTQ street youth; women of color thought; cultural studies and education

Eduardo Mosqueda
Mathematics education of English learners; large-scale data set quantitative analysis; urban education issues

Professor

Catherine R. Cooper (Psychology)
Cultural perspectives on child and adolescent development; linkages among families, peers, schools, and work; issues of diversity, ethnicity, and gender in identity; research, practice, and policy in university outreach programs; linking qualitative and quantitative research

Bruce N. Cooperstein (Mathematics)
Algebra, algebraic number theory

Barbara Rogoff (Psychology)
Human development in sociocultural activity; informal and formal arrangements for learning; adult/child and peer communication in families and schools in diverse cultural communities; learning through observation; cognitive development, especially problem solving, planning, and attention

Revised: 09/01/14