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Curriculum & Instruction Faculty
Fouad Abd El Khalick
Department Head & 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...
Arthur Baroody
Professor Emeritus
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...
Bertram Bruce
Professor
I'm a professor of Library and Information Science, Curriculum & Instruction, Bioengineering, Writing Studies, and the Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies. My central interest is in learning —the constructive process whereby individuals and organizations develop as they adapt to new circumstances. This work draws on ideas such as John Dewey's theory of inquiry as well as on action research and situated studies. Much of it has focused on changes in the nature of knowledge, community, and literacy, as discussed in my new book, Literacy in the information age: Inquiries into meaning making with new technologies and other recent writing.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
Professor
My research investigates the underlying cultural, semiotic, economic, and historical assumptions that shape research and practice in education across a wide range of textual modes. The goal of this research is to refine and improve current practice in language and literacy curriculum and teaching. I am currently working on two research projects. The first focuses on uses of computer-mediated communication and service-learning projects to advance transcultural exchange between pre-service secondary teachers in the US and students in international universities in Morocco and Hong Kong. I also take students from the secondary education program on a service-learning trip to a high school on the Navajo Nation each winter.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) and the literacy engagement, motivation, and instruction of bilingual students. 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...
Gloriana González
Assistant Professor
Gloriana González's research focuses on how teachers manage students' prior knowledge. She is interested in examining teachers' decision-making when handling students' prior knowledge and the rationality underlying those decisions.more information...
Rochelle Gutierrez
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
Clinical Assistant Professor
My work focuses on developing and using curriculum materials that support inquiry learning in science. There exists a need to develop curriculum materials that allow teachers and students to engage in the teaching and learning of science as described in the national reform documents. Much of my work to date has addressed this need by working on developing materials that allow students to engage in extended inquiry investigations. I am interested in understanding the inquiry practices of the students as they engage in extended investigations and what learning occurs. My research has begun to look at the supports that are needed by both the teachers and students as they engage in inquiry practices.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
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...
Nancy MacGregor
Clinical Assistant Professor
Nancy MacGregor joined the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the fall of 2000 and serves as an Assistant Clinical Professor of language and literacy. Her instructional focus is to prepare elementary education students to teach in an increasingly diverse society. Her interests include exploring the nature of children's engagement with and response to mainstream and multicultural literature.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 Moller
Associate 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 interest include the politics of curriculum and examining the policies and practices in post-apartheid desegregated public schools and the implications of school "choice" for marginalized communities in South Africa. Dr. Ndimande has published several book chapters and journal articles, including Pedagogy of the Township: A Letter to Paulo Freire, In Sonia Nieto (Ed.), Dear Paulo: Letters from those who dare teach ; Race and Resources, Race Ethnicity and Education ; Lutas Docentes nas Escolas Públicas para negros na Ãfrica do Sul pós-apartheid, Cadernos de Educação .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
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 and elementary 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 K-12 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
Associate Professor, EdPsych
My research framework is characterized as interdisciplinary because I integrate teacher education, psychology, multicultural education and technology. A primary concern in education today is the relationship among teacher attitudes, instruction and student learning. A recent publication by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education stressed the importance of teacher dispositions and their impact on learning. Dispositions refer to the inclination to act in a particular way. Despite efforts to understand teacher's dispositions, little work has investigated teacher empathy and its connection to classroom learning and social justice.more information...
Daniel Walsh
Associate Professor
My past research projects have included: ethnographic studies of early schooling; studies of the schooling of marginalized young children; studies of culture and pedagogy; and the use of qualitative methodology, particularly with young kids. My current projects include ta book looking at cultural influences on practice in Japanese preschools; investigations of quality in early childhood programs; cross-cultural view of good pedagogy.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...