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Curriculum & Instruction Faculty
Fouad Abd El Khalick
Associate Professor
My past interests include investigating science teachers' pedagogical content knowledge, and global and specific subject matter structures, and the use of concept maps as learning and assessment tools. My research focuses on the teaching and learning about nature of science (NOS) in grades K-12, and in preservice and inservice science teacher education settings.more information...
Bonnie Armbruster
Professor
Bonnie B. Armbruster is Professor and Associate Head for Undergraduate and Certification Programs. Her area of research specialization is reading in the content areas, or reading to learn. Bonnie teaches reading and language arts methods courses for elementary education candidates as well as graduate courses in reading and writing across the curriculum and informational children’s literature. With a strong interest in service learning, Bonnie also teaches a “community engagement” course in which students tutor in local schools.more information...
Arthur Baroody
Professor
Art Baroody is a Professor of Curriculum & Instruction (early childhood and elementary mathematics education) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on the teaching and learning of basic counting, number, and arithmetic concepts and skills by young children and those with learning problems. Grants: Spencer Foundation (“Key Transitions in Preschoolers’ Number and Arithmetic Development; 7/03–12/09), National Institutes of Health (“Computer-guided Comprehensive Mathematics Assessment for Young Children”; 10/05–9/10), and the U.S. Dept. of Education (“Developing an Intervention to Foster Early Number Sense and Skill”; 6/05–6/09); and “Fostering Fluency with Basic Addition and Subtraction”; 7/08–6/12).more information...
Eurydice Bouchereau Bauer
Associate Professor
My research projects focus on alternative literacy assessment, biliteracy development, and preservice education. Specifically, I have researched critical inquiry pedagogy for examining diversity in the teaching of undergraduate and graduate courses, emergent literacy development across two languages, and the literacy and assessment development of elementary students (preschool to grade 5) from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds.more information...
Liora Bresler
Professor
Liora Bresler's current program of research centers on arts education (music, visual art, dance, and drama) in both formal (K-12 schools) and informal settings. Her current project, in the US and internationally, is an inter-disciplinary project at the intersection of performing arts studies, aesthetics, anthropology, and education, focusing on educational and aesthetic values of arts centers and the experiential learning they provoke and inspire. An recent area of interest is intellectual and social entrepreneurship across disciplines in academe.more information...
David Brown
Associate Professor
David Brown’s research focuses on the dynamics of instructional interactions in science. This research focus is informed by a complex dynamic systems perspective on the various dynamics involved with instructional interactions, including social, affective, and particularly conceptual dynamics. Instructional contexts include classroom instruction, tutoring, and technology assisted instruction. A current focus draws on this theoretical perspective in the design of online instructional environments.more information...
Renee Clift
Professor
Professor Clift investigates factors that affect the process of learning to teach, which includes preservice teachers’ learning, educators’ continuing professional development, and educational leadership. Her current work focuses on the transition from preservice teacher education programs to the first six years of teaching. Professor Clift also serves as the Director for the Illinois New Teacher Collaborative (http://intc.ed.uiuc.edu). Based at the College of Education, the collaborative is a statewide, voluntary consortium of stakeholders who are concerned with recruiting and retaining talented educators for all schools.more information...
Michele Crockett
Assistant Professor
Michele Crockett’s research includes issues of education policy, school reform, and institutional contexts, especially as these issues relate to teachers’ professional learning for improving mathematics instruction and achievement at underperforming schools. Presently, she seeks to understand how formative assessment practices in teachers’ mathematics instruction can directly improve students’ deep mathematical understandings and the implications for refocusing school-based professional development efforts.more information...
Christina DeNicolo
Assistant Professor
My broad research interests include equity and the literacy education of culturally and linguistically diverse students, biliteracy in multilingual classrooms, and student use of cultural and linguistic resources in language arts classrooms. An additional focus of mine is the development of cross-cultural understandings by teachers and students in multicultural settings. Currently, I am interested in the influence of teacher ideology on literacy instruction in schools experiencing an increase in bilingual and multilingual students. My goal is to develop an understanding of why some teachers embrace the opportunity to work with bilingual students and others do not.more information...
Mark Dressman
Associate Professor
My research investigates the underlying cultural, philosophical, economic, and historical assumptions that shape research and practice in the teaching of reading and writing across a wide range of topics. The goal of this research is to refine and improve current practice in language and literacy curriculum and teaching. Currently, I am working on three projects. One is a study of the teaching of poetry in U.S. secondary schools from the early twentieth century to the present.more information...
Anne Haas Dyson
Professor
My research focuses on language and literacy development in the early childhood years. By literacy, I do not mean simply children's handwriting and spelling; I mean children's use of print to represent their ideas and to interact with other people. I use qualitative and sociolinguistic research procedures to examine written language use from children's points of view--from within their own social lives. I have aimed to situate children's literacy development within the social and ideological complexity of urban schools and contemporary times.more information...
Georgia Earnest Garcia
Professor
My past research projects have focused on the literacy instruction, assessment, and development of students (preschool-8) from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, with a special interest in bilingual students' reading. My current research interests include investigating cross-linguistic transfer in bilingual students' reading and writing (Spanish-English speakers and Chinese-English speakers), the literacy engagement and motivation of bilingual students, and the use of new forms of literacy assessments with students from diverse backgrounds. I also am interested in studying how assessment and instructional reform efforts affect the reading instruction and performance of students from diverse backgrounds.more information...
Rochelle Gutierrez
Associate Professor
Dr. Rochelle Gutierrez' scholarship focuses on equity issues in mathematics education, paying particular attention to how race, class, and language affect teaching and learning. Through in-depth analyses of effective teaching/learning communities and longitudinal studies of developing teachers, her work challenges deficit views of Latina/o and African American students. Her current research projects focus upon: developing in pre-service teachers the knowledge and disposition to teach powerful mathematics to urban students; the role of uncertainty and "Nepantla" as it relates to teaching; and teacher community and secondary mathematics teaching in México, for which she received a Fulbright fellowship.more information...
Violet Harris
Professor
I maintain active interest and conduct research in the areas of children's literature, multicultural children's literature, children's book publishing, the historic development of African American literacy, and the creation of literacy materials created specifically for African Americans. More broadly, I am interested in literacy, socio-cultural influences on literacy and schooling, and teacher education. Currently, I am working on a content analysis of historic literacy materials for African American children and monitoring two trends in children's literature: biracial/multiracial children and religion.more information...
Barbara Hug
Assistant Professor
My research focuses on developing and using curriculum materials that support inquiry learning in science. There exists a need to develop curriculum materials that help public school teachers and students meet key learning goals aligned with national standards focusing on inquiry as an instructional strategy. Much of my work to date has addressed this need by working on developing materials that allow students to engage in such extended inquiry investigations. I then examine the use of these materials in the context of middle school classrooms.more information...
Marilyn Johnston-Parsons
Professor
Dr. Parson’s current research interests include educational reform related to teacher education and social studies education particularly related to issues of social justice and diversity. She is also interested in collaborative research methodologies, urban education, and action/teacher research and self-study. Recently Dr. Parsons published a book with teachers from a mid-western urban school which describes the ways in which learning successes happen daily in a school that is labeled "failing" by its test scores. She is currently working on a research project in an urban Chicago school working collaboratively with teachers to integrated social studies and content area writing.more information...
Mary Kalantzis
Professor
Dean of the College of Education and Professor of Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinios. Adjunct professor at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, attached to the Globailsm Institute and Research Director of the Knowledge Design Forum. With Bill Cope, co-author of: The Powers of Literacy, Falmer Press, London, 1993, Productive Diversity, Pluto Press, Sydney, 1997; A Place in the Sun: Re-Creating the Australian Way of Life, Harper Collins, Sydney, 2000; Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures, Routledge, London, 2000; and Learning by Design, Victorian Schools Innovation Commission, Melbourne, 2005.more information...
Sarah Lubienski
Associate Professor
Dr. Sarah Lubienski's scholarship centers around intersections of education and equity, focusing on mathematics achievement, instruction, and reform. Through quantitative studies of NAEP and ECLS-K data, as well as qualitative studies of classrooms, she examines inequities in diverse students' mathematics learning experiences and outcomes. Dr. Lubienski has served as the chairperson of both AERA's NAEP Studies SIG and the Editorial Panel for the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education. She currently co-directs an Illinois Math-Science Partnership and was recently awarded IES funding for a study on gender, race/ethnicity, and SES in ECLS-K mathematics data.more information...
Sarah McCarthey
Professor
Sarah McCarthey's research focuses on teachers' writing instruction within current policy contexts such as NCLB. Sarah has explored teachers' integration of writing in their science instruction with Margery Osborne and local teachers. Her work with Georgia Garcia in understanding English language learners' writing practices has contributed to the national dialogue on literacy instruction. As co-editor (with Mark Dressman and Paul Prior) of Research in the Teaching of English, Sarah has been in the forefront of publishing outstanding literacy research. Her leadership in the University of Illinois Writing Project has linked the College of Education with local schools, Writing Studies, and the National Writing Project.more information...
Karla J. Moller
Assistant Professor
My interests are focused on literacy education at the elementary level, specifically in the areas of multiethnic and multicultural literature. My most recent research is on heterogeneous grouping, literature discussion groups, conceptualizations of struggling and capability with regards to literacy events, and engagement and dialogue of children, pre-service, and in-service teachers related to reading culturally diverse literature with social justice themes. I am also involved in working with local area teachers to create support structures for pre-service and in-service teachers who are seeking to expand their learning.more information...
Bekisizwe Ndimande
Assistant Professor
Bekisizwe Ndimande's research interests include the politics of curriculum and examining the policies and practices in post-apartheid desegregated public schools and the implications of school "choice" for disadvantaged communities. His current research on these issues also provides a comparative analysis between the United States and post-apartheid South Africa.more information...
Susan Noffke
Associate Professor
I have done historical/conceptual work in social studies as well as some analysis of my own practice as a social studies teacher educator, both of these with a particular eye toward issues of anti-racist education. I have recently completed a number of publications reflecting these broad research interests. A natural outgrowth of both the conceptual and field studies has been on the need for a more adequate framework for curriculum history and curriculum development (including that for teacher education) to reflect the diverse segment of American education.more information...
Margery Osborne
Associate Professor
My past research has examined the evolving relationships between teacher, students and subject matter in elementary school classrooms. My current research examines the qualities necessary for the creation and enactment of socially and culturally sensitive science instruction. This involves, in particular, the exploration of the moral and ethical issues raised by such goals and senstivities.more information...
Adam Poetzel
Clinical Assistant Professor
Adam Poetzel serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor in secondary mathematics education. He joined the C&I faculty in the fall of 2007 after teaching mathematics at Champaign Central High School for ten years. Adam’s instructional focus is on the preparation and training of pre-service mathematics teachers to effectively teach diverse middle and high school students. Currently, he teaches a variety of methods courses for both undergraduate and graduate candidates including courses that examine the role of technology in today’s mathematics classrooms. He maintains strong ties with local schools and is actively involved in several grants focused on the professional development of in-service mathematics teachers.more information...
Sharon Tettegah
Assistant Professor
My research focuses on pre-service teacher education and students as it relates to human perception and performance in human-computer intelligent interaction within teaching and learning milieus. I specialize in the study of social simulations and virtual reality environments. I am currently investigating pre-service teachers, and other students in higher education, attitudes and perceptions of student's school interactions involving empathy. My research interests include the use of web based animated narrative vignette technologies (social simulations) as a methodology to understand cognitive and emotional responses of educators and other professionals in helping professions.more information...
Ian Westbury
Professor Emeritus
Ian Westbury’s current program of research focuses on state-level curriculum-making and educational decision-making. He is completing a cross-national study of state-based curriculum-making in Illinois, Finland, Norway, Germany, and Switzerland and a study of the management of the NCLB supplemental services program by the Illinois State Board of Education. He is general editor of the Journal of Curriculum Studies.more information...
Arlette Ingram Willis
Professor
My research interests are drawn from critical theory and applied to the history of literacy, trends and issues in reading research preservice literacy education. My research projects have focused on: the application of a critical pedagogy in preservice teacher education courses that use multicultural literature, the history of African American Literacy, and a critical history of literacy in the United States. My current projects include a naturalistic study of a critically framed preservice literacy course and a ethnohistorical study of the Calhoun Colored School.more information...