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Rosa Milagros Santos Gilbertz
Associate Professor
For several years I worked as a preschool teacher and as a special education teacher. I am an active member of the Division for Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children serving in various leadership roles for the Illinois subdivision and national DEC. I am currenty the Past President of DEC. I also serve on the Editorial Board of DEC's Journal on Early Intervention and currently serving as the Editor for the Young Exceptional Children journal. My research interests focus on issues that relate to the impact of culture, race and language in the delivery of services to young children with disabilities (birth to five years old) and their families.more information...
Thomas A. Schwandt
Professor
My scholarship is primarily focused on the intersection of social research and practical philosophy and is heavily influenced by the tradition of philosophical hermeneutics. In my research I investigate questions concerning the nature of human action, practice, and understanding, as well as the nature and role of expertise and dialogue in developing understanding. In addition, as a student of methodology, I study matters concerning the ethics of research, the nature and status of evidence, and the ways in which evidence is linked to claims.more information...
Karrie Shogren
Assistant Professor
The goal of my work is to support people with disabilities to be full participating members of our diverse society. The drive behind my work is a fundamental belief in equality, inclusion, and self-determination and in the social-ecological model of disability, which defines disability an interaction between personal characteristics and environmental demands, rather than as a deficit within a person.more information...
Linda Sloat
Clinical Assistant Professor
Linda Sloat’s primary research interests focus on issues surrounding school improvement in K-12 education, including the administrator’s roles and responsibilities in the change process and leadership for learning at both the building and district level. During her extensive public school administrative career, she also focused on education for the gifted and literacy acquisition.more information...
Christopher Span
Associate Professor
I am an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I am an historian of education in the department of Educational Policy Studies. My research interests pertain to the educational history of African Americans in the 19th and 20th century.more information...
Robert Stake
Professor Emeritus
My past efforts have focused on program evaluation theory and practice, and qualitative research methods including case study. I am currently involved in performance assessment in New York City schools and the evaluation of training in the U.S. Veterans Administration. Since 1975 I have been director of the Center for Instructional Research and Curriculum Evaluation (CIRCE). Once a specialist in psychometrics and instructional research, my present orientation is naturalistic or ethnographic field study, particularly of the classroom. In 1998 I retired from the University of Illinois but continue to teach and head CIRCE.more information...
Elizabeth A. L. Stine-Morrow
Professor (CSTL Chair)
Cognition shows patterns of both loss and gain through adulthood. While "mental mechanics" (i.e., working memory capacity, computational speed, executive control of attention) may decline, crystallized abilities (i.e., verbal ability, knowledge, acculturation) show continued capacity for growth in many life-span contexts. Our research program has been focused on understanding the implications of these changes in basic capacities for continued learning, how strategic regulation of attention enables compensation, and how habitual engagement in learning engenders cognitive vitality.more information...