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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 DEC serving in various leadership roles for the Illinois subdivision and national DEC. I serve on the Editorial Board of the Division for Early Childhood's (DEC) Journal on Early Intervention and currently an Associate Editor for the Young Exceptional Children journal . My research interests include 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. My current research efforts focus on the examination of parent-child interactions across cultures.more information...
Thomas A. Schwandt
Professor and Ed. Psych. Department Chair
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...
Carolyn Shields
Professor
Carolyn Shields spent 18 years in K-12 education, including special education, French as a second language, gifted programs, and various leadership positions before completing her doctorate at the University of Saskatchewan and moving to the professorate where she is now a professor of educational leadership. Her research, teaching, and much of her advising are focused on leadership and social justice, with an emphasis on how leaders in North America and elsewhere can promote deeply democratic educational experiences for students through transformative leadership. She has published seven books and numerous articles related to these interests.more information...
Karrie Shogren
Assistant Professor
The ultimate goal of my work is to identify and implement strategies that support the self-determination and full participation of people with disabilities in our diverse society. My work cuts across three areas. First, conceptualizations of disability in society and the impacts of the ecological model of disability and the supports paradigm on our understanding of disability and the supports provided to people with disabilities. My research and writing in this area focuses on public policy, systems change, definition and classification systems and their interactive effects on people with disabilities.more information...
Jenny Singleton
Associate Professor
My current program of research focuses on deaf children's language development, both American Sign Language and English, including investigation of the ways that deaf teachers support deaf children's identity and language development through visual means.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...
Lisa Spanierman
Associate Professor
My research focuses on White individuals’ racial attitudes, their responses to societal racism, and the psychosocial costs of racism to Whites (i.e., negative consequences experienced by Whites as dominant group members in an oppressive system). My colleagues and I developed the Psychosocial Costs of Racism to Whites (PCRW) scale, which measures empathic reactions toward racism, White guilt, and irrational fear of people from other racial groups. Presently, we are deepening our understanding of the relevance of these costs of racism to White students in increasingly diverse environments, and also applying costs of racism theory to White counselors and educators.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
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...