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Curriculum & Instruction Faculty:T's
Sharon Tettegah
Associate Professor
My research focuses on pre-service teacher education and students as it relates to human perception and performance in human-computer intelligent interaction within teaching and learning milieus. I specialize in the study of social simulations and virtual reality environments. I am currently investigating pre-service teachers, and other students in higher education, attitudes and perceptions of student's school interactions involving empathy. My research interests include the use of web based animated narrative vignette technologies (social simulations) as a methodology to understand cognitive and emotional responses of educators and other professionals in helping professions.more information...
Brenda Trofanenko
Assistant Professor
My research focuses on the public museum as an educational institution, the nationalist purpose of education (specifically history education), and, the development of students' historical consciousness. There exists a need to examine how students learn about the past in various public institutions, and how this is framed as advancing a national identity and feelings of nationalism. Much of my work is situated in public museums (history, ethnology, and natural history museums) that allows for examining how students gain an understanding of historical knowledge by engaging in historical inquiry. I then examine how students can distinguish how various interpretations of the past serve particular purposes in the present.more information...