Recent Faculty Presentations and Publications
Assistant Professor Colleen Hamilton has co-authored an article entitled "Bilanguaging Love: Latina/o/x Bilingual Students' Subjectivities and Sensitivities in Dual Language Immersion Contexts."
This study has been published in the TESOL Quarterly Special Issue: Equity for Students Learning English in Dual Language Bilingual Education, Volume 54, Issue 3, September 2020, pp. 548-571.
Dr. Hamilton's article is a product of her research collaboration on multiple language use by Latinx emergent bilinguals in elementary dual language immersion classrooms.
Dr. Pablo Ochoa (Ed.D. Teaching & Learning/Reading, Language and Literacy major '18) and Associate Professor Ruth Quiroa co-authored an article, "Transformative Learning in a Mexican American Mothers' Book Club," featured in The Reading Teacher, Volume 74, Issue 1, July/August 2020, pp. 19-28.
This study, based on Pablo's dissertation, tells of a book club facilitated by an elementary school bilingual coordinator during which Mexican American mothers became conscious of and identified ways that they could scaffold their children's reading comprehension at home while also supporting their peers' use of comprehension strategies.
Dr. Jack Denny, Secondary Education, and Dr. Ayn Keneman, Early Childhood Education, presented at the 2020 Illinois Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ILASCD) Social-Emotional Learning Virtual Summit on July 30. National, regional and local practitioners presented in over 50 breakout sessions to learn how students are gaining skills to understand and manage their emotions in the learning space.
The presentation titled "Social Emotional Learning and the Landscape of Teacher Preparation" focused on practical classroom applications for all diverse learners and SEL in the time of COVID-19. Additionally, Dr. Denny invited one of his students, Kelly Grudzinski, to participate sharing her current SEL research.
Associate Professor Todd Price has just been published in The Curriculum Journal, an international peer-reviewed publication of the British Educational Research Association.
The Book Review by Dr. Price begins with "A warm tribute to the King of Chaos." This review is of the book Complexifying Curriculum Studies: Reflections on the Generative and Generous Gifts of William E. Doll, Jr., Molly Quinn (Eds), 2019 New York, NY, Routledge.
Dr. Price also co-authored "As the Virtual Dust Settles: Looking Back at and Beyond AAACS 2020," published in the Summer 2020 Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS), Vol. 14 No. 1. Dr. Price's article offers a reflection on the AAACS 2020 conference, with a theme that asked its membership "to articulate a 'language' of ethical engagement" and to take up a conceptually diverse range of educational issues from an ethical point of view.
Associate Professor Eun Kyung Ko has co-authored a chapter entitled "Exploring Pre-Service Teacher Learning through Teaching" published in International Perspectives on Knowledge Integration: Theory, Research, and Good Practice in Pre-service Teacher and Higher Education, Thomas Lehmann (Ed.), 2020, Brill | Sense. The chapter's co-authors are Professors Emeritae Diane Salmon and Ruth Freedman and alumna Jill Zifkin (M.A.T. Elementary Education '93).
