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Winter 2022-2023

Research & Creative Showcase

beth ferri sits at her deskSummer and Fall 2022 was productive for SOE research, even as we worked hard on Re-design and Academic Strategic Planning. Once again, this newsletter is organized around collective engagement with our SOE signatures. As a school we also engaged globally—with studies in China, South Korea, and Turkey.

Scholarship in Digital and Experiential Pedagogy and Practice includes studies on the impact COVID on teaching and learning and innovative and effective practices and design features for online teaching, including virtual reality, teletherapy, and makerspaces as research sites.

Studies in Inclusive and Anti-Racist Pedagogy and Practice examine student voice in literacy contexts; the educational experiences of refugee and immigrant children and families; mindfulness and affective learning; and intersections of disability, gender, race, and other minoritized identities.

Sharing this research makes me #ProudToBeSOE. Wishing you all a peaceful and restorative break and a happy holiday season.

Beth A. Ferri, ADR

 

Digital and Experiential Pedagogy and Practice

 

In Development of a mental health application: A formative evaluation (SAGE Open), Moon-Heum Cho and coauthors describe the design, development, and evaluation of a mental health app in a South Korean context.

Xiaoxia (Silvie) Huang’s co-authored Choice of pedagogical agents as virtual math tutors: Perspectives from children and college students (Journal of Educators Online, 19) examines how demographics, self-efficacy, and math anxiety predict middle school and college students’ choices of virtual math tutors.

In Computers and Education, 192, Tiffany Koszalka and colleagues assess the Impact of role assignment and group size on asynchronous online discussion and especially participation, learning experience, and learning achievement. In Effects of immersive virtual reality classrooms on student academic achievement, motivation, and cognitive load in science lessons, Koszalka and colleagues find that immersive VR significantly improved academic achievement and decreased cognitive load.

Jing Lei and colleagues’ Effects of first-time experiences and self-regulation on college students’ online learning motivation: Based on a national survey during COVID-19 (Education Sciences, 12) examines the relationship between self-regulated learning, perceived presence, and learning motivation in online university learning contexts.

Melissa Luke and colleagues’ Continuation of Teletherapy After the COVID-19 Pandemic: Survey Study of Licensed Mental Health Professionals (JMIR Formative Research, 6) find that although some groups of clients are more likely to continue to receive benefits of teletherapy, vulnerable groups may be less likely to access this form of care.

In her chapter—Leading for change: Engaging elementary youth voice in an in-school makerspace (Centering Youth, Family, and Community in School Leadership: Case Studies for Equity and Justice | Taylor & Francis)—Courtney Mauldin highlights the critical perspectives of elementary-aged youth of color.

Co-authored by Derek Seward and Melissa Luke, Dynamics of Co-Leadership Development in an Experiential Training Group (The Journal for Specialists in Group Work) identifies five relational dynamic themes for how co-leadership develops.

Qiu Wang’s co-authored Effective Learning During COVID-19: Multilevel Covariates Matching and Propensity Score Matching (Annals of Data Science, 9) examines difficulties evaluating the effectiveness of learning outcomes associated with hybrid learning during COVID-19. Facilitating student engagement in large lecture classes through a digital question board (co-authored with Jing Lei, et al) finds that digital question boards increased students’ cognitive and emotional engagement in online classes.

 

Inclusive and Anti-Racist Pedagogy and Practice

 

Kal Alston’s co-authored Feeling like a philosopher of education: A collective response to Jackson’s “The smiling philosopher” (Educational Philosophy and Theory) explores how people of color and other minoritized identities experience higher education as educational philosophers and scholars over the course of their careers.

Post-doctoral scholar, Mercedes Cannon co-authored Resisting Intersectional Disability Soul Destroying in Education Contexts: A Collaborative Autoethnography for Healing in Trauma in Adult and Higher Education: Conversations and Critical Reflections (Information Age). Cannon also published Black women’s transition at (MY) Intersections of Race, Gender, Dis/Ability and Ableism in Investing in the Educational Success of Black Women and Girls (Stylus Publishing).

Beth Ferri’s co-authored chapter—Disability critical race theory as asset pedagogy (Sustaining disabled youth: Centering disability in asset pedagogies | Teachers College Press) situates Disability Critical Race Theory (DisCrit) as an asset-based pedagogy that can foster liberatory classroom ecologies and cultivate resistance against oppressive practices. Ferri also co-edited a special issue of Teachers College Record on Imagining possible futures: DisCrit as a lever for praxis in education.

Nicole Fonger’s co-authored People, places, and population predictions (Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 115) describes how two high school algebra teachers and their students examined population trends affected by the creation of a highway though a thriving African American community. Fonger also published Teaching is a journey: Toward anti-racism in practice in Mathematics Teacher, 115.

In the Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers, Marcelle Haddix and Kimberly Williams Brown G’17 explore Students of color as architects of future designs for teacher education and research.

Bong Gee Jang and co-authors wrote the introduction to the special issue of the Journal of Literacy Research. Centering Student Voice in Literacy Research focuses on ways that teachers can better leverage students’ linguistic repertoires and translanguaging practices and further develop metalinguistic knowledge and theoretical understandings.

Dawn Johnson published the chapter Trauma and transformative learning: One university’s response to Black student protests against racism in Trauma in Adult and Higher Education: Conversations and Critical Reflections (Information Age).

Sultan Kilinc’s A Social Justice-Oriented Analysis of Refugee Children’s Educational Experiences in Turkey (Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science) examines Turkish educational policies and practices using Fraser’s three-dimensional social justice framework. In Disability & Society, 37, Kilinc investigates Mothers of children without disabilities’ conceptions of inclusive education: Unveiling an exclusionary educational system privileging normalcy and ableism.

In Little kids rock and modern band in US schools: A punk problematic (Research in Education) David Knapp and co-authors describe non-profit Little Kids Rock as a disruptive phenomenon emphasizing creativity, cultural relevance, and student-centered learning, while also reinforcing entrenched hegemonic structures.

Yanhong Liu and colleagues’ Affective Representation of Early Relationships with Parents and Current Anxiety and Depression (Journal of Genetic Psychology, 183) examines the role of early relationships with parents on Chinese youths’ development of anxiety and depression.

Melissa Luke co-authored Principles of anti-oppression: A critical analytic synthesis and LGBTQI+ responsive school counseling: Exemplary school counselor educators’ curricular integration in Counselor Education and Supervision and A discourse analysis of cultural humility within counseling dyads in Counseling & Development.

Corrine Occhino’s co-authored Perceptual optimization of language: Evidence from American Sign Language (Cognition, 224) provides empirical support for anecdotal assertions that the phonological structure of sign language is shaped by the properties of the human visual and motor systems.

Wendy Moy is co-editing a series—Singing All of Us: Restoring Relationships in Choral Communities—in the journal The Voice, focusing on ensemble singing and choral music as a tool to address racism and repair racial harm.

In his essay, Why anti-racism matters (Art Education, 75), James Haywood Rolling Jr. powerfully explains why he is an antiracist art educator, concluding that “We can do and be better.”

In Stigma, help-seeking, and counseling with African American male college students (Journal of Counseling & Development, 100) Derek Seward, Yanhong Liu, Melissa Luke, and their colleague find that public and self-stigma influence whether Black male college students seek counseling.

George Theoharis’ co-authored Strengthening equity work in the face of opposition (Educational Leadership, 79) identifies five effective practices for equity-based leadership in the context of fearmongering around teaching critical race theory in schools.  

Qiu Wang’s study—Mechanisms of change underlying mindfulness-based practices among adolescents (Mindfulness)—looks at the effects of a 12-week school-based mindfulness practice and specific mechanisms that associated with adolescents’ psychological well-being.

Louise Wilkinson co-authored Introduction: Tracing themes in the evolution of the academic language construct (Linguistics and Education, 71), a review of 33 years of published studies of academic language in the context of educational inequality, particularly among minoritized racial/ethnic and socioeconomic groups.

 

Celebrating SOE Grants, Awards, and Accomplishments

 

Elisa Dekaney presented the keynote Utilizing Multiple Research Methodologies to Examine the Intersections of Music, Race, and Food in Brazilian Culture: Applications to Research in Choral Music at the 2022 ACDA International Symposium for Research in Choral Singing (also published in International Journal of Research in Choral Singing, 10).

Ben Dotger (PI), Melissa Luke (co-PI), and the Center for Experiential Pedagogy and Practice received $300K from NSF for The Simulation Physiology (SIM-Physio) Data Science Model: Engaging STEM Undergraduates in Data Science Practices.

Beth Meyers earned the 2022 George Jesien National Leadership Award at this year’s State of the Art conference. Meyers was also named one of three editors-in-chief of the new Journal of Inclusive Postsecondary Education: Research, Policy, and Practice for the Field.

James Haywood Rolling Jr. is currently serving as the 37th President of the National Art Education Association.

Christobel Sheldon was awarded $1.4M for the Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement Program, part of SOE’s Center on Academic Achievement and Student Development (CAASD).

Julia White (PI), Sultan Kilinc, and Yanhong Liu (co-PIs) received $1.14M from USDOE for Project IMPRESS (Interdisciplinary Master’s Preparation of Urban and Rural Educators in Special Education and School Counseling).