Department of Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education
Faculty Publications: Department of Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education
2023
Religious influences on the growth of literacy practice, Loukia K. Sarroub and Cassandra Schroeder
Scaffolding Learning for Teachers of Multilingual Learners Through Agency, Leadership, and Collaboration, Kara Viesca, Cindy H. Linzell, Peiwen Wang, Molly Heeren, Jessica Mitchell-McCollough, and Alexa Yunes-Koch
2022
Striving Towards Authenticity in the Self Through Dress and Appearance: Stories of Latina Adolescent Immigrants, Mary Alice Casto, Jennifer Paff Ogle, Maricela DeMirjyn, Amanda Morales, and Sarah Silvas-Bernstein
Dancing across difference: arts and community-based interventions as intercultural education, Theresa Catalano and Amanda R. Morales
Preparing Teachers for Culturally Responsive/Relevant Pedagogy (CRP): A Critical Review of Research, Wen-Chia Chang and Kara Viesca
Developing intercultural competence in multilingual science classrooms: a narrative study, Uma Ganesan and Amanda Morales
Representing transition experiences: A multimodal critical discourse analysis of young immigrants in children’s literature, Xiaoyan Gu and Theresa Catalano
Spiritual and religious meaning making in language and literacy studies: global perspectives on teaching, learning, curriculum and policy, Mary M. Juzwik, Robert Jean LeBlanc, Denise Dávila, Eric D. Rackley, and Loukia K. Sarroub
Conflict of allegiance: Professional development challenges in transforming science teachers' identities and practices, Elizabeth B. Lewis
Discourse in Inquiry Science Classrooms, DiISC Version 2.0 (User’s manual for an observation research instrument), Elizabeth B. Lewis, Dale R. Baker, Lyrica L. Lucas, Amy Tankersley, Elizabeth Hasseler, Ana Rivero, and Brandon Helding
Noyce Science, 2012-2021 Ten Cohorts of Teachers, Master of Arts for Science Teaching Brings Science to Life, UNL Noyce Track 1, Phase 2 Grant Activity Brochure, Elizabeth B. Lewis, Elizabeth Hasseler, Lindsay Augustyn, Tori Pederson, and Grace Kovar
Linguistically Responsive Leaders: Working With Multilingual Students and Their Families, Aprille Phillips, Joan Barnatt, and Kara Viesca
Understanding "Death": Creating Student Opportunities for Meaningful Emotional Expression in the Science Classroom, Zachary Schafer and Lawrence C. Scharmann
Developing Critical Cultural Awareness in the ELT Classroom, Akiko Takagi and Aleidine J. Moeller
Quality content teaching for multilingual students: An international examination of excellence in instructional practices in four countries, Kara Viesca, Annela Teemant, Jenni Alisaari, Johanna Ennser-Kananen, Naomi Flynn, Svenja Hammer, and Sara Routarinne
(Re)Turning To Freirean Philosophy in Preparing Content Teachers to Work with Multilingual Students, Kara Viesca, Peiwen Wang, Brandon Heinz, and Alexa Yunes-Koch
(Re)Turning to Freirean Philosophy in Preparing Content Teachers to Work with Multilingual Students, Kara Viesca, Peiwen Wang, Brandon Heinz, and Alexa Yunes-Koch
“It was just my name!”: A CRT/CRF Analysis of International Female Graduate Students’ Perception and Experiences Regarding Their Ethnic Name, Peiwen Wang, Xiaoyan Gu, and Amanda R. Morales
A meta-analysis examining technology-assisted L2 vocabulary learning, Aiqing Yu and Guy Trainin
2021
Influence of Science Experiences on Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Beliefs, Saiqa Azam and Deepika Menon
Shaping the teaching and learning of intercultural communication through virtual mobility, Theresa Catalano and Andrea Muñoz Barriga
Dance as dialog: A metaphor analysis on the development of interculturality through arts and community-based learning with preservice teachers and a local refugee community, Theresa Catalano, Uma Ganesan, Alessia Barbici Wagner, Jenelle Reeves, Alison E. Leonard, and Stephanie Wessels
Social Media, Populism, and COVID-19: Weibo Users’ Reactions to Anti-Chinese Discourse, Theresa Catalano and Peiwen Wang
How Social Studies Teachers Choose News Resources for Current Events Instruction, Christopher H. Clark, Mardi Schmeichel, and H. James Garrett
Factors Associated With Novice General Education Teachers’ Preparedness to Work With Multilingual Learners: A Multilevel Study, Qizhen Deng Ph.D., Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, and Kara Mitchell Viesca
Teaching and Learning News Media in Politically Unsettled Times, H. James Garrett, Mardi Schmeichel, Joseph McAnulty, and Sonia Janis
Picturing dual language and gentrification: An analysis of visual media and their connection to language policy, Edmund T. Hamann and Theresa Catalano
What educators in Mexico and in the United States need to know and acknowledge to attend to the educational needs of transnational students, Edmund T. Hamann and Víctor Zúñiga
Setting Empirically Informed Policy Benchmarks for Physical Science Teaching, Elizabeth B. Lewis, Ana Rivero, Lyrica L. Lucas, Aaron Musson, and Brandon Helding
Investigating Preservice Teachers’ Science Teaching Self-Efficacy: an Analysis of Reflective Practices, Deepika Menon and Saiqa Azam
Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Identity Development in Learning to Teach Science: A Multi-site Case Study, Deepika Menon and Saiqa Azam
Learner Ownership of Learning, Aleidine J. Moeller
Learner Ownership of Learning, Aleidine J. Moeller
The Interplay of Emotion, Cognition, and Learning in the Language Classroom, Aleidine J. Moeller
Advice for Students of Color and First-Generation College Students: Successful Transitions from High School into and Within College/University, Amanda Morales
Advice for Educational Counselors, Advisors, Faculty, and Staff: Paving the Pathways to Post-Secondary Education: Removing Barriers and Creating Opportunities for Students of Color (SOC) and First-Generation College Students (FGCS) to Flourish, Amanda R. Morales and Edmund T. Hamann
To Teach as We are Known: The ‘Heart and Soul’ Labor of Teacher Educators of Color Working in PWIs, Amanda R. Morales and John Raible
"The Lady from North Carolina": The Perils and Limitations of External Expertise, Aprille J. Phillips and Edmund T. Hamann
Empowering Salieri - Extracting the Genius in our Students, Zachary C. Schafer and Lawrence C. Scharmann
Evolutionary theory: Coping with a Pandemic., Lawrence C. Scharmann
Evolutionary Theory: Establishing Positive Learning Environments, Lawrence C. Scharmann
Fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic with Reliable Data, Lawrence C. Scharmann
Vaccine Hesitancy - When Emotions Trump Reason, Lawrence C. Scharmann
Invited Dialogue: Mapping the Intersections of Religion, Literacy, and Public Schooling for Displaced, Immigrant, and Refugee Children: A Conversation with Loukia K. Sarroub, Jennifer D. Turner and Loukia K. Sarroub
Disrupting Evasion Pedagogies, Kara Mitchell Viesca and Tricia Gray
2020
Intercultural Competence in Pre-Service Teacher Candidates, Joan Barnatt, Lisa Andries D’Souza, Ann Marie Gleeson, Kara Mitchell Viesca, and Jessica Wery
The visual representation of dual language education, Theresa Catalano
Transformative Interviewing and the Experiences of Multilingual Learners not Labeled “ELL” in US Schools, Theresa Catalano, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, and Kara Mitchell Viesca
Googly eyes and yard signs: Deconstructing one professor’s successful rebuffing of a right-wing attack on an academic institution, Theresa Catalano and Ari Kohen
Social Studies Teacher Perceptions of News Source Credibility, Christopher H. Clark, Mardi Schmeichel, and H. James Garrett
Partners, Not Adversaries: Higher Education and Diverse Schools, Edmund T. Hamann
The Equity and Engagement Challenges of Teaching Reading in Middle School, Edmund T. Hamann and Stephanie Malone
“It’s Like They Don’t Recognize What I Bring to the Classroom”: African Immigrant Youths’ Multilingual and Multicultural Navigation in United States Schools, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Alex Kumi-Yeboah, and Anthony Mawuli Sallar
Identity Negotiation in Multilingual Contexts: A Narrative Inquiry into Experiences of an African Immigrant High School Student, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba and James Oloo
Navigating multiple worlds of Ghanaian-born immigrant adolescent girls in US urban schools, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Adaurennaya C. Onyewuenyi, Alex Kumi-Yeboah, and Anthony Mawuli Sallar
Educating Effective Science Teachers: Preparing and Following Teachers Into the Field, Elizabeth Lewis, Ana Rivero, Aaron Musson, Lyrica L. Lucas, Amy Tankersley, and Brandon Helding
Influence of the Sources of Science Teaching Self-Efficacy in Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Identity Development, Deepika Menon
Impact of mobile technology‐based physics curriculum on preservice elementary teachers’ technology self‐efficacy, Deepika Menon, Meera Chandrasekhar, Dorina Kosztin, and Douglas Steinhoff
Learning Science With Mobile Technologies: Opportunities for Enhancing Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Science Conceptual Understanding, Deepika Menon, Zarah Salas, Allison Mellendick, Meera Chandrasekhar, and Dorina Kosztin
Reflection and Inquiry-based Teaching: Exploring Reflective Practices in Beginning Secondary Science Teachers, Ana Rivero and Elizabeth B. Lewis
Book review: Neha Vora, Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar, Loukia K. Sarroub
Examining GLOCAL Scales and Mapping Literacy Landscapes: What We Can Learn as Ethnographers through Geospatial Analyses, Loukia K. Sarroub and William R. England
Creating Proactive and Positive Approaches for Teaching Evolution, Lawrence C. Scharmann
Evolutionary Theory in Applied Problem-Solving, Lawrence C. Scharmann
Insights into nature of science and evolution education, Lawrence C. Scharmann
Scientific Theories and the Power of Enquiry, Lawrence C. Scharmann
Theories - A Powerful Tool for Science, Lawrence C. Scharmann
Critical relationships in managing students’ emotional responses to science (and evolution) instruction, Lawrence C. Scharmann and Bette L. Grauer
Selfies as Postfeminist Pedagogy: The Production of Traditional Femininity in the US South, Mardi Schmeichel, Stacey Kerr, and Chris Linder
The downfall: listening to non-urban communities and their language ideologies, Jessica Sierk and Theresa Catalano
Towards a complex framework of teacher learning-practice, Kathryn J. Strom and Kara Mitchell Viesca
Language and Identity: Multilingual Immigrant Learners in South Africa, Saloshna Vandeyar and Theresa Catalano
Digital Storytelling with English Language Learning Families, Stephanie Wessels and Guy Trainin
Children’s voices about ‘return’ migration from the United States to Mexico: the 0.5 generation, Víctor Zúñiga and Edmund T. Hamann
2019
Representation of unaccompanied migrant children from Central America in the United States: Media vs. migrant perspectives, Theresa Catalano and Jessica Mitchell-McCollough
“I Felt Valued”: Multilingual Microteachings and the Development of Teacher Agency in a Teacher Education Classroom, Theresa Catalano, Hanihani C. Traore Moundiba, and Hadi Pir
“Taking the Shackles off”: Metaphor and Metonymy of Migrant Children and Border Officials in the U.S., Theresa Catalano and Andreas Musolff
Missing the (Turning) point: The erosion of democracy at an American university, Anthony Fucci and Theresa Catalano
Quando o dinheiro fala mais alto: privatização, formação de professores e imaginários sociais conflitantes nas escolas dos Estados Unidos, Lauren Gatti and Theresa Catalano
Delineating a Regional Education Research Agenda, Edmund T. Hamann
The Paradoxical Implications of Deported American Students, Edmund T. Hamann and Jessica Mitchell-McCollough
Teacher Education in México: Higher Expectations, Significant Change, but Still Finite Capacity, Edmund T. Hamann, Juan Sánchez García, and Yara Amparo Lopez Lopez
“It’s OK. She Doesn’t Even Speak English”: Narratives of Language, Culture, and Identity Negotiation by Immigrant High School Students, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba and James Alan Oloo
Untapped communicative resources in multilingual classroom settings: Possible alternatives, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba and James Alan Oloo
“Her sentence is correct, isn’t it?”: Regulative discourse in English medium classrooms, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba and Patrick Henry Smith
Motivation to teach: The differences between faculty in schools of education and K-12 teachers, Nancy L. Leech, Kara Mitchell Viesca, and Carolyn A. Haug
Why domain-specific science knowledge matters in teacher certification: Focusing on evidence for effective science teaching., Elizabeth B. Lewis, Lyrica Lucas, Amy Tankersley, and Elizabeth Hasseler
Promoting Learner Engagement through Interactive Digital Tools, Xianquan Liu and Aleidine J. Moeller
Supporting representation-rich problem-solving in high school physics, Lyrica L. Lucas and Elizabeth B. Lewis
Planning with curriculum materials: Interactions between prospective secondary mathematics teachers’ attention, interpretations and responses, Lorraine Males and Ariel Setniker
Engaging Preservice Secondary Science Teachers in an NGSS-Based Energy Lesson: A Nanoscience Context, Deepika Menon and Mary Sajini Devadas
Islamophobia in U.S. Education, Shabana Mir and Loukia K. Sarroub
Creating a new normal: Language education for all, Aleidine J. Moeller and Martha G. Abbott
Valuing Rural Dexterity: Experiential Funds of Knowledge, Science Education, and Rural Kids, Amanda Morales
The Mañana Complex: A Revelatory Narrative of Teachers’ White Innocence and Racial Disgust Toward Mexican–American Children, Amanda Morales, Elvira Abrica, and Socorro Herrera
The nature of science as a foundation for fostering a better understanding of evolution, Craig E. Nelson, Lawrence C. Scharmann, Jean Beard, and Lawrence I. Flammer
A narrative inquiry into experiences of Indigenous teachers during and after teacher preparation, James Alan Oloo and Lydiah Kananu Kiramba
International Comparisons in Education (Why doesn’t the USA perform better?), Lawrence C. Scharmann
Building momentum by starting small, Cassandra R. Seiboldt,; Lorraine Males; and Joshua R. Males