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News & Events
Spotlight on Research
2008 College of Education Research Conference
Research provides educators with the knowledge and tools needed to advance learning. The UW College of Education is a leading research university focused on developing educational solutions for real-world problems.
These videos from the January, 2008, College of Education Research Conference feature faculty presentations on their most recent research activities.
Topics included: innovations in teacher education, diversity and citizen education in a global age, how students learn across formal and informal settings, leadership supports for urban school reform, the cognition of reading, supporting pro-social behaviors in the classroom, developmental disabilities, and more.
Symposium: Research in Higher Education
The ELL factor in higher education
Presenters: Manka Varghese & Yasuko Kanno
Key messages from a national PhD career path and program evalution study- Social Science PhDs - 5+ Years Out
Presenters: Maresi Nerad, Elizabeth Rudd, Emory Morisson, Joe Picciano,
Symposium: Systemic Action to Support Learning-Focused Leadership in Urban Education Reform
Panel discussion by four EDLPS faculty
Panelists: Bradley Portin, Mike Knapp, Meredith Honig, Mike Copland
Symposium: Diversity, Immigration & Globalization
Diversity, Group Identity, and Citizenship Education In a Global Age
Presenter: James A. Banks
Access, field relations and disclosure practices: An inside view of qualitative allied health research with Asian immigrant families of children with developmental disabilities in the Pacific Northwest
Presenter: Brinda Jegatheesan
Strategic Transformation: Gender Identity Negotiation in First Generation Vietnamese Youth
Presenters: Tom Stritikus
Symposium: Intervention Research in the Classroom
Response to Intervention in the Social Domain: Results from the Check, Connect, and Expect Project
Presenters: Doug Cheney, Scott Stage
Multicultural Intentionality in School Based Interventions
Presenter: Janine Jones
Symposium: How School Leaders and Districts Learn
Learning from Leaders: Inquiry Projects about Educational Change
Presenters: Margery Ginsberg and Kathy Kimball
School District Instructional Reform Processes: Research at the Intersection of Policy, Learning, and Organizational Theory
Presenters: Chrysan Gallucci, Meredith Honig, Mike Knapp
Symposium: How People Learn in Formal and Informal Environments
The Hidden Story of How Children Learn In and Out of School
Presenters: Philip Bell, Leah Bricker, Suzanne Reeve, Carrie Tzou & Heather Zimmerman
Home Economics: What an Ethnographic Study of How Families Handle Money Tells Us about the Scandalous Irrelevance of Mathematics Education to Everyday Life
Presenters: Reed Stevens, Sheldon Levias, Veronique Mertl & Laurie McCarthy
Learning Sciences Research in Today's School Systems
Presenter: John Bransford
Symposium: Research on Reading
Children's Processing of Morphological Information during Reading
Presenter: Deborah McCutchen
Teacher Knowledge of Oral Reading Fluency and Its Relation to Student Achievement
Presenter: Roxanne Hudson
Discussion: Equity & Education (Common Books)
Faculty, staff and students of the College of Education are reading two “common books” this year. This session will include an informal discussion of the themes associated with the two common books. If you ordered one or both of these books last quarter, you can pick them up during this session.
Book 1: The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics (George Lipsitz)
Book 2: Dividing Classes: How the Middle Class Negotiates and Rationalizes School Advantage (Ellen Brantlinger)
Discussion: Educational Research Priorities & Possibilities
Panel Discussion
Panelists: Nancy Beadie, Steve Kerr & Bill McDiarmid
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