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College of Education Faculty:H's
Donald G. Hackmann
Associate Professor and Interim Head
Don Hackmann’s primary research agenda focuses on leadership preparation programming, including program quality, standards-based curricula, and characteristics of tenure-line and clinical educational leadership faculty members. An additional research interest addresses the principalship, focusing on effective leadership behaviors and strategies at the middle and high school levels that facilitate improved student learning, including effective supervisory approaches and the development of effective scheduling models.more information...
James Halle
Professor
For more than 20 years I have been involved in research related to communication and language development of children with disabilities. This program of research has focused on examining both social communication of young children with significant intellectual disability, and the ecological factors that facilitate and discourage communicative growth. I have also worked on developing interventions to encourage more effective and efficient communication by these children. Recent projects include assessing current dictionaries of prelinguistic forms used by children with severe disabilities to communicate and the functions (e.g., request, protest, comment) these forms serve for the children.more information...
Violet Harris
Professor
I maintain active interest and conduct research in the areas of children's literature, multicultural children's literature, children's book publishing, the historic development of African American literacy, and the creation of literacy materials created specifically for African Americans. More broadly, I am interested in literacy, socio-cultural influences on literacy and schooling, and teacher education. Currently, I am working on a content analysis of historic literacy materials for African American children and monitoring two trends in children's literature: biracial/multiracial children and religion.more information...
Robert Henderson
Professor Emeritus
Professor Henderson’s research activities during his 50 years at Illinois cover four areas: prevention of brain damage by early detection and dietary treatment of inborn errors of metabolism, especially Phenylketonuria (PKU); effectiveness and efficiency of service delivery systems for students with disabilities; equity in financing special education programs in the USA and Canada; comparative evaluation of service delivery systems worldwide. He serves on the editorial board of several USA and international professional journals in Special Education.more information...
Nancy Hertzog
Associate Professor
At the core of my research program is the question, "In what ways can teachers challenge all children in inclusive elementary classrooms?" This question ties two thrusts of my research program together: interest in instructional strategies that challenge all children; and interest in gifted programming practices. Beginning with my introduction into research methodology, I have been approaching this broad research question systematically by looking at instructional practices which have typically been designed for students regarded as gifted, and I have been examining the impact and perspectives of gifted programming practices from the students and families who have been involved in them.more information...
Christopher Higgins
Assistant Professor
My scholarly interests fall into two main areas: philosophy of teaching and the aims of education. My work in the first area concerns teacher motivation and identity, transformative dialogue and the teacher-student relationship, as well as teacher education and professional development. My book, The Good Life of Teaching: Toward a Virtue Ethics for Teachers (Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming), offers a eudaimonistic conception of professional ethics, examining how work contributes to the practitioner's own quest to lead a rich, meaningful, or excellent life.more information...
Denice Hood
Assistant Professor
My current research interests include issues of teaching and learning in online postsecondary learning environments. Specifically, I am interested in the intersection between adult learning, cognitive and social factors that contribute to academic success, cultural aspects of pedagogy and the policy implications. more information...
Wen-Hao Huang
Assistant Professor
W. David Huang’s academic background, consisting of material science & engineering, educational technology, and executive business administration, has enabled him to conduct interdisciplinary projects for instructional and research purposes for years. Dr. Huang currently teaches Learning Technologies and Instructional Design for HRE with an interactive approach. His research interests include (1) design of serious games and workforce development, (2) cognitive load manipulations in E-Learning settings, and (3) development of entrepreneurship education. David is also co-coordinating and co-developing HRE’s MSEd program in E-Learning (delivered by University of Illinois Global Campus) with Dr. Scott Johnson since June 2007.more information...
Barbara Hug
Clinical Assistant Professor
My research focuses on developing and using curriculum materials that support inquiry learning in science. There exists a need to develop curriculum materials that help public school teachers and students meet key learning goals aligned with national standards focusing on inquiry as an instructional strategy. Much of my work to date has addressed this need by working on developing materials that allow students to engage in such extended inquiry investigations. I then examine the use of these materials in the context of middle school classrooms.more information...
Richard Hunter
Professor
Richard Hunter is known for his extensive public school administrative experience in public education and for his academic research on topics in urban education, while teaching at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.more information...