Education 鈥� 麻豆频道University News

Beth Ferri

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 16:12:22 +0000

Beth A. Ferri, Ph.D. is a Professor of Inclusive Education and Disability Studies at 麻豆频道University, where she also coordinates the Doctoral program in Special Education.

Professor Ferri has published widely on the intersection of race, gender, and disability, including articles in聽Teachers College Record,听Race Ethnicity and Education,听Educational Studies,听Review of Research in Education,听International Journal of Inclusive Education,听Remedial & Special Education,听Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners,听Feminist Formations,听History of Education Quarterly, and the聽Journal of African American History.

She has also published five co-authored and co-edited books:聽Reading Resistance: Discourses of Exclusion in Desegregation and Inclusion Debates聽(2006, with Connor, Peter Lang);聽Righting Educational Wrongs: Disability Studies Law and Education聽(2013, with Kanter, SU Press);聽DisCrit: Critical Conversations Across Race, Class, & Dis/ability聽(2016, with Connor & Annamma, Teachers College Press);聽Stories from our Classrooms: How Working in Education Shapes Thinking about Dis/Ability聽(2021, with Connor, Peter Lang); and聽DisCrit Expanded聽(2022, Teachers College Press, with Annamma & Connor).

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Tiffany Koszalka

Mon, 02 Nov 2020 00:55:37 +0000

Tiffany Koszalka is a Professor in the Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation program in the School of Education. She is also recognized as a 麻豆频道University Faculty Technology Associate based on her practices of integrating technology into instruction and received a Meredith Professorship Teaching Recognition Award.

As an expert in instructional systems design, Koszalka focuses on studying the integration of learning, instruction, and technologies in instructional and learning environments. Her current work focuses on R&D projects investigating online learning and digital learning resources to support distance education, self-directed learning activities. With the COVID-19 pandemic, Koszalka’s work and research is especially important given the transition to online or hybrid work for students of all ages.

She spent over three decades in the instructional design field with over a decade in corporate environments designing, implementing, and evaluating multimedia-based training and human performance technology systems.

Her scholarship includes 5 books, 8 book chapters, 18 manuals, 24 refereed article, 40+ published conference papers, 40+ research reports, 70+ invited key notes, and 95+ conference presentations just over the last 15 years.

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Yingyi Ma

Thu, 30 Apr 2020 15:04:39 +0000

Yingyi Ma is an Associate Professor of Sociology, a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Policy Research, and Director of Asian/Asian American Studies. Professor Ma is a sociologist of education and migration. Her research focuses on education, migration, and Asian/Asian American studies.Another line of her work examines who study what and why, and the labor market consequences of educational choices.

Professor Ma is the co-editor of (2017), which has won the Honorable mention of the Best Book Award from the Study Abroad and International Students Section, Comparative and International Education Association. Her new book, , discusses how a students from China must navigate both their life as young adults and the complications between U.S. and China relations while attending American universities and what this experience means to them.

Professor Ma has received grants from the National Science Foundation, Alfred Sloan Foundation, and Association of Institutional Research. Ma is also a Public Intellectual Fellow (2019 鈥� 2020) for the National Committee of Us-China Relations. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from Johns Hopkins University in 2007.

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Brice Nordquist

Sun, 16 Feb 2020 19:13:23 +0000

Brice Nordquist is an Associate Professor of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition and Dean鈥檚 Professor of Community Engagement in the College of Arts and Sciences at 麻豆频道University. Professor Nordquist is interested in how students see themselves as makers of the communities and identities that constitute the educational, occupational, civic, and social organizations in which they participate.

Broadly speaking, Professor Nordquist’s research investigates relations among language and literacy practices across media, educational and occupational institutions, material and digital spaces, and cultural and geopolitical borders. His current research focus examines global proliferations and local implementations of concurrent enrollment writing courses. Currently Norquidst is engaged in a multi-sited ethnography that traces representations and enactments of concurrent enrollment courses within and across schools in the US and abroad.

Professor Nordquist has written a number of highly regarded books, including (Routledge 2017), which follows eleven students from different tracks of English in a 鈥渇ailing鈥� public high school through their first years at research universities, colleges, and full-time jobs. Nordquist has聽also coedited the collection聽聽(Utah State 2017) with Bruce Horner and Susan Ryan.

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Mara Sapon-Shevin

Fri, 12 Jul 2019 16:12:11 +0000

Mara Sapon-Shevin is a specialist in diversity and social justice issues, including full inclusion, anti-racism teaching, bullying and harassment, cooperative learning, and using the arts to teach against oppression. She has written more than 200 books, book chapters, and articles and has presented keynotes and workshops internationally in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Malta, Chile, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, and England. She coordinates a project called Creating Safe and Peaceful Schools and has just completed (with teachers) a project called Peaceful at the Core which uses children’s literature to end bullying and promote positive interpersonal behavior and becoming upstanders. He recent books include: Because We Can Change the World: A Practical Guide to Creating Cooperative, Inclusive Classroom Communities; Educational Courage: Resisting the Ambush of Public Education; and Condition Critical: Key Principles for Equitable and Inclusive Education.

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