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Lorenzo Baber
Assistant Professor
Lorenzo Baber’s primary research agenda focuses on the impact of socioeconomic background and ethnicity on identity development and academic outcomes for postsecondary students. He is particularly interested in investigating the persistent educational achievement gap between minority and majority students at Predominately White Institutions. Additional research interests include examination of university-neighborhood partnership initiatives in urban communities and international comparative education.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...
Tina (A.C.) Besley
Research Professor
My research interests include educational policy and philosophy, especially Michel Foucault’s work on self/subjectivity and governmentality; the knowledge economy, creativity and academic entrepreneurship; assessing research quality in Higher Education; and youth issues, especially self and identity in a globalised world where the impact of new social media is now becoming apparent. I am interested in narrative approaches in research and counseling. I am on the editorial boards of seven journals and three book series and have published five books including Subjectivity and Truth: Foucault, Education and the Culture of the Self ( Peter Lang, 2007) with Michael A. Peters.more information...
Debra Bragg
Professor
Debra Bragg’s research focuses on transition to college by youth and adults, especially student populations that have not attended college historically. She is particularly interested in how underserved youth and adult students (minority, low income, first-generation, immigrant students) use the community college to transition to higher education, including how public policies position community colleges as a primary port of entry. The expanding mission of community colleges, including the increasing importance of linkages to high schools, adult education, postsecondary education and the workforce is of particular interest. Her work is affiliated with the Office of Community College Research and Leadership (OCCRL)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...
Nicholas Burbules
Professor
My research focuses on philosophy of education; teaching and dialogue; critical social and political theory; and technology and education. My major current projects include work on ethical and policy issues concerning new technologies in education; virtual reality; collaboration; and dialogue and "third spaces.more information...