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Research News & Notes
Department of Social Studies and Elementary Education
Presentations, Publications, and Awards

June 2008-May 2009

Student and Student-Faculty Presentations, Publications, and Awards

Andrews, P. G., Thompson, K. F., Harrison, L., & High, J. (2008, October). High stakes: Observations and evaluations of teacher quality. Paper presented at the annual meeting of National Middle School Association, Denver, CO.

Bridges-Rhoads, S., & Parks, A.N. (2008, October). It’s time for an absurdity. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Curriculum and Pedagogy Conference, Decatur, GA

Butler, B.M., Elfer, C., & Roberts, S.L. (2008, November). Structuring the tandem-placement student teaching experience. Paper presented at the College and University Faculty Assembly, Houston, TX

Kim, J., & Lee, K. (2008, November). Awareness of multiple identities through young Korean-American children’s naming: Empowering minority children’s voices. Paper presented at the 18th Annual International Conference of the National Association for Multicultural Education, New Orleans, LA.

Kim, J., & Lee, K. (2009, April). Leaving and homing children: Korean immigrant caregivers’ perspectives on young children’s future. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.

Kim, J., & Lee, K. (2009, April). Living the hyphens: Naming practices among young Korean-American heritage language learners. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.

Lim, M., & Lee, K. (2009, April). Othering from within: Tension among Korean immigrant parents in their process of school participation. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.

Lim, M., & Lee, K. (2009, April). Being a Korean studying Koreans in an American school: Multiplicities of positioning and methodological reflections. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.

Lim, M. (2008, November). Ethnic networks and school participation among Korean immigrant parents. Paper presented at the 18th Annual International Conference of the National Association for Multicultural Education, New Orleans, LA.

Parks, A.N. & Bridges-Rhoads, S. (2008, October). What’s more important numbers or shoes? Readiness, curriculum and nonsense in a rural preschool. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Curriculum and Pedagogy Conference, Decatur, GA.

Ritter, J., & Lee, K. (2009). Explicit goals, implicit values, and the unintentional stifling of pluralism: An examination of a social studies teacher education vision statement. Theory and Research in Social Education, 37, 75-100.

Thompson, K. F., Andrews, P. G., Harrison, L., Haddox, K., Haddox, A., Reagin, M.,
Saxon, C., Shaver, A., & EDMS 2009 Cohort. (2008, October). Hunger, homelessness, and content standards: Connecting issues of poverty to math, science, language arts, and social studies. Paper presented at the annual meeting of National Middle School Association, Denver, CO.

Vagle, M.D., Hughes, H. E., Durbin, D.J. (in press). Remaining skeptical: Bridling for and with one another. Field Methods.

Vagle, M.D., Hughes, H. E., Durbin, D.J. (2008, December). Searching for openings: Cultivating tact in middle grades preservice literacy teachers. Paper presented at the National Reading Conference. Orlando, Fla.

Faculty Publications

Allen, L. & Calhoun, E. (2008). Schoolwide Action Research: Findings from Six Years of Study. In R. Schmuck (Ed.), Practical Action Research: A Collection of Articles, Second Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

Caskey, M., Andrews, P. G., Capraro, R., Bishop, P., Roe, M., & Weiss, C. (in press). Research & resources in support of This we believe. (2nd ed.). Westerville, OH: National Middle School Association.

Ziomek-Daigle, J., & Andrews, P. G. (2009). Ensuring success for every student: Dropout prevention in the middle grades. Middle School Journal.

Jackson, A. W., & Andrews, P. G. (2009). A re-awakening: Middle grades matter in a global age. Education Week.

Andrews, P. G. (2008). Centering on students in the middle grades curriculum. Middle School Journal, 40(2), 44-51.

Andrews, P. G., Debray-Pelot, E., & Denmark, V. (2009). Middle grades education: Finding success in the middle. In E. Houck (Ed.), Education Policy 2009. Athens, GA: Education Policy & Evaluation Center, University of Georgia.

Andrews, P. G. (2008). Learn and live. Middle School Journal, 39(4), 56-63.

Anfara, V. A., Jr., Pate, P. E., Caskey, M. M., Andrews, P. G., Daniel, L. G., Mertens, S. B., & Muir, M. (2008). Research summary: Courageous, collaborative leadership. [On-line]. Available at http://www.nmsa.org/ResearchSummaries

Butchart, R. E. (in press). Laura Towne and Ellen Murray: Northern expatriates and the foundations of Black education in South Carolina, 1862-1908. In Marjorie Spruill, Valinda Littlefield, and Joan Johnson, eds., South Carolina women: Their lives and times.

Butchart, R. E. (in press). Black Hopes, White Power: Emancipation, Reconstruction, and the Legacy of Unequal Schooling in the U.S. South, 1861-1880. Paedagogica Historica.

Butchart, R. E. (2009). Review of Adam Fairclough, A class of their own: Black teachers in the segregated South. In Journal of Social History, 42

Buxton, C. (2009). Science inquiry, academic language and civic engagement. Democracy and Education, 18(4), 28-37.

Lee, O., Maerten-Rivera, J., Buxton, C., Penfield, R. D., & Secada, W. G. (2009). Urban elementary school teachers' perceived knowledge, practices, and organizational supports and barriers in science instruction with English language learners. Journal of Science Teacher Education, 20(3), 263-286.

Buxton, C., Lee, O., & Mahotiere, M. (2009). The role of language in academic and social transition of Haitian children and their parents to urban U.S. schools. Bilingual Research Journal, 31(1&2), 47-74.

Buxton, C. (in press). Social problem solving through science: An approach to critical place-based science teaching and learning. Equity and Excellence in Education.

Buxton, C., Lee, O. & Santau, A. (2008). Promoting science among English language learners: Professional development for today’s culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms. Journal of Science Teacher Education 19(5), 495-511.

Lee, O., & Buxton, C. (2008). Science curriculum and student diversity: Culture, language, and socioeconomic status. The Elementary School Journal, 109(2), 123-137.

Conklin, H.G. (2009). Compassion and mindfulness in research among colleagues. Teaching Education, 20(2), 111-124.

Conklin, H. G. (2009). Purposes, practices, and sites: A comparative case of two pathways into middle school teaching. American Educational Research Journal, 46(2), 463-500.

Conklin, H.G. (2008). Modeling compassion in critical, justice-oriented teacher education. Harvard Educational Review, 78(4), 652-674.

Fields-Smith, C. (in press). Motivations, sacrifices, and challenges: Black Parents’ Decisions to Home School, Urban Review.

Fields-Smith, C. & Neuharth-Pritchett, S. (2009). Families as Decision-Makers: When Researchers and Advocates Work Together. Childhood Education, 85 (4).

Jones, S. (2009). Jagged edges: A psychosocial exploration by one who “made it.” In J. Van Galen & V. Dempsey (Eds.), Trajectories: The education and social mobility of education scholars from the poor and working class. The Netherlands: Sense Publishers.

Spector, K. & Jones, S. (2009). Constructing Anne Frank: Critical literacy and the Holocaust in eighth-grade English. In D. Lapp & D. Fisher (Eds.), Essential readings on comprehension. Newark, DE: International Reading Association.

Jones, S. (2009). Against all odds: A case study of one White, middle-class female teacher becoming an engaged intellectual. Changing English, 16(2), 231-246.

Jones, S. & Enriquez, G. (2009). Engaging the intellectual and the moral in critical literacy education: The four year journeys of two teachers from teacher education to classroom practice. Reading Research Quarterly. 44(2), 145-168.

Jones, S. (2008). Grass houses: Representations and reinventions of social class through children’s literature. Journal of Language and Literacy Education [Online], 4(2), 40-58. Available: http://www.coe.uga.edu/jolle/2008_2/representations.pdf

Choi, I., & Lee, K. (2009). Designing and implementing a case-based learning environment for enhancing ill-structured problem solving: Classroom management problems for prospective teachers. Educational Technology Research and Development, 57, 99-129.

Lee, K., & Vagle, M. (Eds.). (under contract). Developmentalism in early childhood and middle grades education: Critical conversations on readiness and responsiveness. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Lee, K. (submitted). Who is normal? Who is abnormal? Rethinking child development from a cultural psychological perspective. In K. Lee & M. Vagle (Eds.), Developmentalism in early childhood and middle grades education: Critical conversations on readiness and responsiveness. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Lee, K., & Choi, I. (2008). Learning classroom management through web-based case instruction: Implications for early childhood teacher education. Early Childhood Education Journal, 35, 495-503

Sharma, A. (2008). Portrait of a science teacher as a Bricoleur: A case study from India. Cultural Studies of Science Education, 3(4), 811-841.

Sharma, A. (2008). Science, science education and their discontents: a response to commentaries on the paper, Portrait of a Science Teacher as a Bricoleur: A case study from India. Cultural Studies of Science Education, 3(4), 875-880.

Thompson, K. F., & Andrews, P. G.(2008). Classroom observations: Reducing tensions and enhancing teacher practice. Middle Matters: National Association of Elementary School Principals, 17(2).

Mahaya, E., Tippins,D., Mueller, M. & Thomson, N. (in press). Infectious disinfection! Exploring global water quality. Science Activities.

Mueller, M. & Tippins, D. (in press). Rethinking an education from nowhere: Citizen science, ecojustice and science education, In B. Fraser, C. McRobbie & K.Tobin (Eds.), Second International Handbook of Science Education, Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer.

Mueller, M. & Tippins, D. (in press). Van Eijek and Roth's utilitarian science education: Why the recalibration of science and traditional knowledge invokes multiple perspectives to protect science education from being exclusive. Cultural Studies in Science Education.

Tippins, D. & Handa, V. (in press). Community immersion as a context for relevant science teacher preparation in the Philippines: An ecojustice perspective. In Yu Jin Lee (Ed.), World of Science Education: Asia. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.

Barnhardt,R., Tippins, D. & Brandt, C. (2008). Locations of possibilities in tertiary science education: Responding to the voices of four Navajo women. Cultural Studies in Science Education, 3(3), 703-730.

Tippins, D. & Mueller, M. (2008). A relational, ecological pragmatist framework to guide projects of rural science education as if local people and places matter. In K. Tobin & M. W. Roth (Eds.), World of Science Education: North America, Sense Publishers.

Govenor,D., Cetin-Dindar, A., Harper, J., Jenkins, L. Doney, P. Ortiz-Blanco, C. & Tippins, D. (in press). Solar paths: An international and integrated look at sun and seasons. Science Scope.

Handa,V., Tippins, D., Morano, L., Hallar, B., Miller,K., & Bryan, R. (2008). A dialogue of life: Integrating service learning in a community immersion model of pre-service science teacher preparation. The Journal of College Science Teaching, 37(6), 14-20.

Vagle, M. D. (forthcoming). Pathic pedagogies as everyday work. Pedagogies: An International Journal.

Vagle, M.D., Hughes, H. E., & Durbin, D.J. (forthcoming). Remaining skeptical: Bridling for and with one another. Field Methods. Prepublished online: April 6, 2009; http://fmx.sagepub.com/cgi/rapidpdf/1525822X09333508v1

Vagle, M. D. (2009). Validity as intended: “Bursting forth toward” bridling in phenomenological research. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 22(5), 585-605.

Vagle, M. D. (2009). Locating and exploring teacher perception in the reflective thinking process. Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 15(5).

Vagle, M. D. (2008). Searching for a prophetic, tactful pedagogy: An attempt to deepen the knowledge, skills, and dispositions discourse around good teaching. Education and Culture, 24(1), 49-65.

Faculty Grants

The National Academy of Education and the Spencer Foundation have awarded Hilary Conklin a Post-Doctoral Fellowship for 2009-2011 ($55,000). Project title: To specialize in students or specialize in social studies? A comparative, longitudinal study of two pathways into middle school teaching.

Cory Buxton and Martha Allexsaht-Snider are co-PIs on a grant, Teaching Science to Hispanic English Language Learners (T-SHELL), a $42,000 grant funded by the Georgia Teacher Quality Enhancement Grant (Martha Allexaht-Snider, Co-PI), 2009-2010

Martha Allexsaht-Snider and Cory Buxton, Co-PIs, were awarded a $9,000 grant by the Hispanic Scholarship Fund for Steps to College: BHL to UGA Through Science for 2008-2009.

Cory Buxton is Senior Consultant to Promoting Science among English Language Learners in Middle School (Okhee Lee, PI), a $50,000 grant funded by the Carnegie Corporation, 2009.

Stephanie Jones has been awarded a University of Georgia Scholarship of Engagement Grant for Making a magic school bus: Transforming “field trips” into the center of rich integrated learning in a high-poverty and multilingual school in Athens, Georgia ($5,900).

Deborah Tippins and Mike Mueller have been awarded a STEM Education, Improving Instruction and Enhancing Student Success in STEM Disciplines grant for their proposal, Ethical Decision-Making in the education of future teachers: Exploring citizen science through popular culture videocases

Mark Vagle has been awarded a Junior Faculty Research Grant Program, The University of Georgia Research Foundation, for No Pass, No Go! Low Income Young Adolescents and their Teachers Using Formative Assessment to Prepare for the High Stakes Test—Phase 1 ($7523.00). Awarded for Spring 2009.

Faculty Presentations

Andrews, P. G., & Denmark, V. (2008, October). Middle school restructuring and policy choices. The University of Georgia’s Educational Policy and Evaluation Center’s Annual State-of-the-State Report, Atlanta, GA.

Butchart, R. E. (2009, April). Questioning the Limits of Historical Methods: Problems Posed by a Large Investigation. Paper presented to Div. F, Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association.

Butchart, R. E. (2009, April). Educational Research and the Disciplines: Porous Boundaries? The Case from the Discipline of History. An invited Presidential Symposium presentation before the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association.

Butchart, R. E. (July 2008). Black Hopes, White Power: Emancipation, Reconstruction, and the Legacy of Unequal Education in the U.S. South, 1861-1880. Keynote address presented to the International Standing Conference for the History of Education, Newark, N.J.

Buxton, C. (2009). Science inquiry, academic language and civic engagement: Teaching science to English learners.Paper presented at the 2009 meeting of the National Association of Research in Science Teaching, Anaheim, CA.

Conklin, H. G. (2009, April). To specialize in students or specialize in social studies? Teachers’ learning in two pathways into middle school teaching. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego.

Conklin, H., Hawley, T., Powell, D., & Ritter, J. (2008, November). Learning from Middle School Students. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the College and University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies, Houston, TX.

Jones, S. (2009, October). Invited keynote speaker at the Alabama Council for Teachers of English, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Jones, S. (2009, June). Invited presentation on literacy and social class for Red Clay Writing Project Summer Institute. The University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

Jones, S. (2008, December). When, where, and why: A Bourdieusian analysis of teachers taking hold of critical literacy practices.Invited presentation at the Annual Meeting of the National Reading Conference (NRC). Orlando, FL.

Jones, S. (2008, December). What a poor mother knows: Barriers to listening under institutional classism.Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Reading Conference, Orlando, FL.

Jones, S. (2008, November). Turn-around pedagogies: Rethinking readers and reading instruction.Panel presented with Lane W. Clarke and Grace Enriquez at the Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English, San Antonio, TX.

Jones, S. (2008, November). Girls, social class, and literacy. Invited author for the UGA - Clarke Central High School Diversity Dinner Dialogues.

Rackley, M. & Reguero de Atiles, J. (2008, October). Learning Beyond the Classroom: Utilizing Field Trips to Provide an Integrated Curriculum. Paper presented at the Georgia Association on Young Children, Gwinnett Co., GA.

Tippins,D., & Brittan, S. (2008, October). Exploring discourses of relevance in science education for the 21st century: A movement towards citizen science. Paper and keynote address presented at the International Academic Conference on Indigenous Science Education, National Taitung University, Taitung, Taiwan.

Tippins, D., & Handa, V. (2008, October). Culturally relevant education within a community immersion model of science teacher preparation. Paper and keynote address presented at the International Academic Conference on Indigenous Science Education, National Taitung University, Taitung, Taiwan.

Tippins, D. (2008, August). Researching the environmental messages of the rice terraces: An elementary science curriculum project. Paper presented at Ifuago State College, Ifugao, Philippines.

Juntarapraset,S., & Tippins, D. (2008,July). Social constructivist learning theory integration in science teaching: Understanding teachers' conceptual development and practice. Paper presented at the Australasia Science Education research Association conferencde, Perth, Western Australia.

Mueller, M., & Tippins, D. (2008, October). A citizen-science movement for community life in the twenty-first century. Paper presented at the American Educational Studies Conference, Savannah, Georgia.

Mueller, M., Tippins, D., Pagan,.T., Cajagal, A., Hodges, G., Vritton, S. & Wilson, R. (20089, October). Rethinking an education from nowhere: Advocacy, ecojustice and uncertainty. American Educational Studies Conference, Savannah, Georgia.

Tippins, D., & Thomson, N. (2008, October). Towards the development of an international science education courses: Some strategies, issues and challenges. Paper presented at the Southeastern Association of Science Teacher Educators conference, Columbus, South Carolina.

Vagle, M. D. (2008, December) Embracing a contingent, recursive adolescence: Implications for critical middle grades literacy pedagogies. Paper presented at the National Reading Conference. Orlando, FL

Faculty Awards

Andrews, P. G. President-Elect of the National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform, 2009.

Andrews, P. G. Richard B. Russell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2009

Andrews, P. G. Induction into UGA Teaching Academy, 2008

Andrews, P. G. College of Education Faculty Senate D. Keith Osborn Award for Teaching Excellence, 2008.

Butchart, R. E. "Remapping Racial Boundaries: Teachers as Border Police and Boundary Transgressors in Post-Emancipation Black Education, USA, 1861-1876,” published in Paedagogica Historica (2007) was selected as one of the Outstanding Articles of the Year by the History of Education Society and honored at the History of Education Society Annual Meeting in October, 2008.

Butchart, R. E. UGA Alumni Association Writing Fellow, 2008-2009.

Stephanie Jones was selected as a Lilly Teaching Fellow for 2009-2011.

Tippins, Deborah. Outstanding Science Teacher Educator of the Year—2009. Awarded by the International Association of Science Teacher Educators at its annual conference.

Tolley, B. D. Appointed to the Georgia Professional Standards Committee Board of Examiners, 2009.