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Yoon Pak
Associate Professor
My research focuses on the following topics: - Education of Seattle's Japanese American students on the eve of their incarceration in 1942. - Americanization and Citizenship education in the Seattle Schools, 1916-1942. - Investigating the histories of Asian American education. - Intercultural Education in the Classroom, 1930s-1950s. - History of teaching methods and classroom culture. - Democratic Citizenship Education, Americanization, and acculturation of ethnic minorities and immigrant groups in the U.S. - Comparative approaches to democratic and tolerance education during the Progressive Era. - History of U.S. education in the early twentieth century. - Asian American Education.more information...
Laurence Parker
Associate Professor
My past research has focused on educational leadership and diversity, education law and teacher testing, and diversity and evaluation. My current research interests involve looking at critcial race theory and its connection to educational research, policy and practice in the k-12 and postsecondary settings. I am also interested in research dealing with social justice perspectives in educational administration, leadership and policy, particularly with respect to race and social class.more information...
Michelle Perry
Professor
My research focuses on children�s learning � especially of mathematics in elementary schools � and the ways in which this can be supported. I attempt to explain how students take up new concepts and contribute to the collective understanding of mathematics in the classroom. My ongoing projects include analysis of video data from first- and fifth-grade classrooms, both in the United States and in China. New students are welcome to join our research group to look at the practices and structures in these lessons that potentially influence student learning.more information...
Michael Peters
Professor
Michael A Peters is Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Adjunct Professor at RMIT. He is the editor of Educational Philosophy and Theory (Blackwell) and Policy Futures in Education and E-Learning. Recent books include: Showing and Doing: Wittgenstein as a Pedagogical Philosopher (Paradigm, 2008) with Nick Burbules and Paul Smeyers; Global Knowledge Cultures (Sense, 2008) with Cushla Kapitzke; Subjectivity and Truth: Foucault, Education and the Culture of Self (Peter Lang, 2007), Why Foucault? New Directions in Educational Research (Peter Lang, 2007), Building Knowledge Cultures: Educational and Development in the Age of Knowledge Capitalism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), all with Tina (A.C.) Besley.more information...
Evangeline Pianfetti
Assistant Dean, Learning Technologies
One of my main research interests is digital video as an instructional tool and as a Web resource. I conduct research on professional development and technology integration, including the increased use of digital video as an instructional tool. I am interested in helping teachers integrate technologies into their curriculum. I currently administer two grants. Unity in Community, funded by Apple Computer, Inc., is a collaborative project between Urbana Middle School and the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and uses service learning and computer technology to create a student-centered, project-based curriculum.more information...
Wanda Pillow
Associate Professor
My research interests include the intersections of gender, race, class and sexuality as they impact issues of representation, access, voice, and equality. I explore these issues through thinking and writing about the doing of qualitative research and the methodologies that guide our analyses. I am completing work on a book about the education of school-aged mothers, 1972-2002, that builds from the above interests and further develops my thinking about doing critical, race-based feminist policy analysis.more information...
Adam Poetzel
Clinical Assistant Professor
Adam Poetzel serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor in secondary mathematics education. He joined the C&I faculty in the fall of 2007 after teaching mathematics at Champaign Central High School for ten years. Adam’s instructional focus is on the preparation and training of pre-service mathematics teachers to effectively teach diverse middle and high school students. Currently, he teaches a variety of methods courses for both undergraduate and graduate candidates including courses that examine the role of technology in today’s mathematics classrooms. He maintains strong ties with local schools and is actively involved in several grants focused on the professional development of in-service mathematics teachers.more information...