Student Spotlight: Michelle Gautreaux
My research explores the effects of neoliberal education reform in marginalized communities in Chicago.
Student Spotlight: Ashley Welsh
Ashley Welsh is a PhD Candidate in EDCP. Her research explores the catalysts that undergraduate students’ perceive as both enhancing and limiting their metacognition, self-efficacy, and learning in an introductory chemistry course that encouraged active learning strategies.
Student Spotlight: Jiao Ji
Jiao Ji is a PhD Candidate in EDCP. Her research project aims to explore the terrain of Science Museum Education with particular focus on Chinese science museum educators’self-concept of their roles, concerns and professional desires. Jiao Ji, PhD Student
Student Spotlight: Jeff Baker
Jeff’s doctoral research explores the transformative possibilities of Indigenous Science Education for catalyzing the emergence of more equitable and sustainable ways of living.
Student Spotlight: Elizabeth Beatrice Namazzi
My research interest is HIV/AIDS, cultural practices and Secondary Education. Drawing inspiration from years of work with orphans of HIV/AIDS, I pursue the question: what cultural practices influence children’s perceptions of the world around them and prevention of HIV/AIDS? Elizabeth Beatrice Namazzi, PhD student.
Student Spotlight: Hannah Spector
My dissertation research is a conceptual analysis of cosmopolitanism and education. I place ethical responsibility to global risks (turned catastrophe) at the center of a cosmopolitan education. Such an ethic draws from the faculty of judgment and the heart’s compassion.
Student Spotlight: Sylvia McLellan
My doctoral research highlights young children’s capacity to contribute to inquiry-based learning in mathematics.
Student Spotlight: Adrienne Boulton-Funke
My research attends to the methodological possibilities of Deleuze and Guattari’s concepts within arts-based educational research. My research explores film as a provocative and pedagogical mode of inquiry to consider the material and discursive qualities of becoming with teacher candidates. Adrienne Boulton-Funke, PhD student
Student Spotlight: Chris Campbell
How do undergraduate engineering programs shape the thinking and dispositions of linguistically and culturally diverse learners? Still a work in progress, my research project aims to find answers in places where ‘traditional’ engineering disciplinary knowledge and ‘soft’ skills meet. Chris Campbell, PhD student
Student Spotlight: Guopeng Fu
My research focuses on the notion of “human agency” and how it plays itself out on Chinese high school physics teachers in the context of curriculum reform. I am especially interested in how teachers can act “otherwise” among the many reform mandates. Guopeng Fu, PhD student
Student Spotlight: James Gauthier
I am interested in do-it-yourself approaches to science and technology education. My research explores collaborative, non-proprietary, open source initiatives that stress freedom in design — initiatives that seek to interrogate traditional definitions of technology, literacy, designer, user and community. James Gauthier, PhD student
Student Spotlight: Steven Khan
General question: How might I mindfully engage myself & others in forming & performing ethical relationships among different & diverse peoples, places, thoughts & things through intervulnerability, mythopoethics & mathematics-education? Steven Khan, PhD student
Student Spotlight: Julia Ostertag
I’m interested in cultivating and querying connections to place through food growing practices, specifically through teacher education in an outdoor classroom. How do conceptualizations of human/nature relationships shape education and the design of educational spaces/places? Julia Ostertag, PhD Student