Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education
Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications
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2017
Modeling Inquiry-oriented Instruction of Beginning Secondary Science Teachers, Lyrica Lucas and Elizabeth B. Lewis
Examining Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Technology Self-Efficacy: Impact of Mobile Technology-Based Physics Curriculum, Deepika Menon, Meera Chandrasekhar, Dorina Kosztin, and Douglas Steinhoff
Historical Analysis: Tracking, Problematizing, and Reterritorializing Achievement and the Achievement Gap, Justin Olmanson, Zoe Falls, and Guieswende Rouamba
The Challenge of Chinese Character Acquisition: Leveraging Multimodality in Overcoming a Centuries-Old Problem, Justin Olmanson and Xianquan Chrystal Liu
Contours of Neoliberalism in US Empirical Educational Research, Mardi Schmeichel, Ajay Sharma, and Elizabeth Pittard
Perceptions of Linguistically Responsive Teaching in Teacher Candidates/Novice Teachers, Madhavi Tandon, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Colin Hueston, and Tamara Milbourn
Online Professional Learning for Science Teachers of Multilingual Learners, Kara Viesca, Elizabeth Mahon, Christopher D. Carson, and The eCALLMS Team
Pre-service Teachers’ Confidence and Attitudes toward Teaching English Learners, Stephanie Wessels, Guy Trainin, Jenelle Reeves, Theresa Catalano, and Qizhen Deng
Supporting 3rd-grade students’ model-based explanations about groundwater: A quasi-experimental study of a curricular intervention, Laura Zangori, Tina Vo, Cory Forbes, and Christina V. Schwarz
2016
Secondary Pre-Service Teachers’ Algebraic Reasoning About Linear Equation Solving, Christina Alvey, Rick A. Hudson, Jill Newton, and Lorraine M. Males
Linguistic Construction of Migrant Identity in U.S. Crime Reports, Theresa Catalano
Being “in a Limbo”: Perceptions of Immigration, Identity and Adaptation of Immigrant Students in South Africa and the United States, Theresa Catalano, Jill Fox, and Saloshna Vandeyar
Representing teachers as criminals in the news: A multimodal critical discourse analysis of the Atlanta schools’ “Cheating Scandal”, Theresa Catalano and Lauren Gatti
Multilingual pedagogies and pre-service teachers: Implementing “language as a resource” orientations in teacher education programs, Theresa Catalano and Edmund T. Hamann
Moving people and minds: Dance as a vehicle of democratic education, Theresa Catalano and Alison E. Leonard
Representations of power: A critical multimodal analysis of U.S. CEOs, the Italian Mafia and government in the media, Theresa Catalano and Linda R. Waugh
Review of The Math Myth and Other STEM Delusions by Andrew Hacker, David Fowler
Learning to Teach in an Urban Teacher Residency, Lauren Gatti
Black Female Adolescents and Racism in Schools: Experiences in a Colorblind Society, Nicole Joseph, Kara Viesca, and Margarita Bianco
Being the “First”: A Narrative Inquiry into the Funds of Knowledge of First Generation College Students in Teacher Education, Jeong-Hee Kim, Amanda Morales, Rusty Earl, and Sandra Avalos
Three Reading-Intervention Teachers’ Identity Positioning and Practices to Motivate and Engage Emergent Bilinguals in an Urban Middle School, Jung-In Kim and Kara Mitchell Viesca
Heteroglossic practices in a multilingual science classroom, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba
Translanguaging in the Writing of Emergent Multilinguals, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba
Science Teachers’ Professional Growth and the Communication in Science Inquiry Project, Elizabeth Lewis, Dale Baker, Nievita Bueno Watts, and Katrien van der Hoeven Kraft
Noyce Science Teacher Master of Arts with emphasis in Science Teaching Program: Meeting Challenges of 21st Century Classrooms. UNL Noyce Track I, Phase I, Final Report., Elizabeth B. Lewis, Lindsay Augustyn, Amanda Garrett, Lyrica L. Lucas, Aaron A. Musson, Ana Rivero, and Andy Frederick
Making Sense of Sound: Fourth Graders Use Physical and Technological Models to Illustrate and Explain the Nature and Characteristics of Sound, Deepika Menon and Deanna Lankford
Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Science Self-Efficacy Beliefs and Science Content Knowledge, Deepika Menon and Troy D. Sadler
Understanding Energy: Primary Students Investigate the Effects of Energy, Deepika Menon, Blake Shelby, and Christine Mattingly
Fostering Connections, Empowering Communities, Celebrating the World, Aleidine Kramer Moeller
Personal Agency Inspired by Hardship: Bilingual Latinas as Liberatory Educators, Amanda Morales and Gail Shroyer
What does Motivated Mean? Re-Presenting Learning, Technology, and Motivation in Middle Schools via New Ethnographic Writing, Justin Olmanson
New Media Literacies, Justin Olmanson and Zoe Falls
Visualizing Revision: Leveraging Student-Generated Between-Draft Diagramming Data in Support of Academic Writing Development, Justin Olmanson, Katrina Kennett, Alecia Magnifico, Sarah McCarthey, Bill Cope, Duane Searsmith, and Mary Kalantzis
The Case of Three Karen Refugee Women and Their Children: Literacy Practices in a Family Literacy Context, Sabrina DM Quadros and Loukia K. Sarroub
Indonesian Pre-Service Teachers’ Identities in a Microteaching Context: Learning to Teach English in an Indonesian Teacher Education Program, Dwi Riyanti and Loukia K. Sarroub
Personal Practical Knowledge of Teacher Educators, Vicki Ross and Elaine Chan
Educator Responses to Migrant Children in Mexican Schools, Juan Sánchez Garcia and Edmund T. Hamann
Conceptual Limitations in Curricular Presentations of Area Measurement: One Nation’s Challenges, John P. Smith III, Lorraine Males, and Funda Gonulates
The Road to Reform: A Grounded Theory Study of Parents’ and Teachers’ Influence on Elementary School Science and Mathematics, Julie Thomas and Sandi Cooper
A Study of Home Emergent Literacy Experiences of Young Latino English Learners, Guy Trainin, Stephanie Wessels, J. Ron Nelson, and Patricia Vadasy
In This Issue [of TESOL Quarterly, on Language Teacher Identity], Monka M. Varghese, Suhanthie Motha, Gloria Park, Jenelle Reeves, and John Trent
Students We Share Are Also in Puebla, Mexico: Preliminary Findings from a 2009–2010 Survey, Víctor Zúñiga, Edmund T. Hamann, and Juan Sánchez García
2015
Moisés Sáenz: Vigencia de su Legado (English translation), Edmund T. Hamann
Series Editors' Foreword: The Construction, Negotiation, and Representation of Immigrant Student Identities in South African Schools (Vandeyar & Vandeyar)., Edmund T. Hamann and Rodney Hopson
Bringing Space Science Down to Earth for Preservice Elementary Teachers, Toni A. Ivey, Nicole M. Colston, and Julie A. Thomas
Mathematics Teachers’ Perspectives on Online Professional Development Modules, Nicole M. Joseph, Jacqueline Leonard, Kara Viesca, and Boni Hamilton
Science Teaching Reform Through Professional Development: Teachers’ Use of a Scientific Classroom Discourse Community Model, Elizabeth Lewis, Dale R. Baker, and Brandon Helding
Let them learn English: Reader response to media discourse about dual language education, Jia Lu and Theresa Catalano
The Ed.D. as Investment in Professional Development: Cultivating Practitioner Knowledge, Margaret A. Macintyre Latta, Edmund T. Hamann, and Susan Wunder
Learn Languages, Explore Cultures, Transform Lives, Aleidine Kramer Moeller
Foreign Language Teaching and Learning, Aleidine Kramer Moeller and Theresa Catalano
Foreign Language Teaching and Learning, Aleidine Kramer Moeller and Theresa Catalano
Leadership and Its Ripple Effect on Research, Aleidine Kramer Moeller and Sheri Hurlbut
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements: An Effective Tool for Improving Language Learning Within and Outside the Classroom, Aleidine Kramer Moeller and Fei Yu
Foreword to Revisiting Education in the New Latino Diaspora, Amanda Morales
The Teacher-Artist's Creed: Teaching as a Human, Artistic, and Moral Act, Amanda Morales and Jory Samkoff
Critical cultural awareness in the foreign language classroom, Kristen Nugent and Theresa Catalano
Caught in the Tractor Beam of Larger Influences: The Filtration of Innovation in Education Technology Design, Justin Olmanson, Fitsum Abebe, Valerie Jones, Eric Kyle, Lyrica Lucas, Katie Robbins, Guieswende Rouamba, and Xianquan Liu
The Techno-Pedagogical Pivot: Designing and Implementing a Digital Writing Tool, Justin Olmanson, Katrina Kennett, and Bill Cope
Learning Biology through Innovative Curricula: A Comparison of Game- and Nongame-Based Approaches, Troy D. Sadler, William L. Romine, Deepika Menon, Richard E. Ferdig, and Leonard Annetta
Critical Pedagogy in Classroom Discourse, Loukia K. Sarroub and Sabrina Quadros
The Use of Journaling to Assess Student Learning and Acceptance of Evolutionary Science, Lawrence C. Scharmann and Wilbert Butler Jr.
Skirting around Critical Feminist Rationales for Teaching Women in Social Studies, Mardi Schmeichel
Education Policy Implementation in the New Latino Diaspora, Jennifer Stacy, Edmund T. Hamann, and Enrique G. Murillo Jr.
Critical Discourse Analysis: Definition, Approaches, Relation to Pragmatics, Critique, and Trends, Linda R. Waugh, Theresa Catalano, Khaled Al Masaeed, Tom Hong Do, and Paul G. Renigar
iContact: The Digital Feedback Process in a University Setting, Kathleen M. Wilson and Laurie A. Friedrich
Going to a home you’ve never been to: The return migration of Mexican and American-Mexican children, Víctor Zúñiga and Edmund T. Hamann
2014
ROMANIES VERSUS THE MAFIA: “US” AND “THEM” IN ITALIAN CRIME REPORTS, Theresa Catalano
Narrative understandings of a school policy: Intersecting student, teacher, parent and administrator perspectives, Elaine Chan and Vicki Ross
College Dreams à la Mexicana . . . Agency and Strategy among American-Mexican Transnational Students, Nolvia A. Cortez Román and Edmund T. Hamann
The Effect of Morphological Strategies Training for English Language Learners, Q. Deng and G. Trainin
The Business of Learning to Teach: A Critical Metaphor Analysis of One Teacher’s Journey, Lauren Gatti and Theresa Catalano
“A hidden part of me”: Latino/a Students, Silencing, and the Epidermalization of Inferiority, Jason G. Irizarry and John Raible
Seeking research-enhanced geoscience outreach that complements subject knowledge with pedagogical expertise (Book Review), Elizabeth Lewis
A professional learning community activity for science teachers: How to incorporate discourse-rich instructional strategies into science lessons, Elizabeth Lewis, Dale Baker, Nievita Bueno Watts, and Michael Lang
Preparation for Practice: Elementary Preservice Teachers Learning and Using Scientific Classroom Discourse Community Instructional Strategies, Elizabeth Lewis, Oxana Dema, and Dena Harshbarger
“What is Critical Whiteness Doing in OUR Nice Field like Critical Race Theory?” Applying CRT and CWS to Understand the White Imaginations of White Teacher Candidates, Cheryl E. Matias, Kara Viesca, Dorothy F. Garrison-Wade, Madhavi Tandon, and Rene Galindo
A Pragmatist Perspective on Building Intercultural Communicative Competency: From Theory to Classroom Practice, Aleidine J. Moeller and Sarah R. Faltin Osborn
Building Intercultural Competence in the Language Classroom, Aleidine Kramer Moeller and Kristen Nugent
Spoken Spanish Language Development at the High School Level: A Mixed-Methods Study, Aleidine Kramer Moeller and Janine Theiler
The Mathematical Nature of Reasoning-and-Proving Opportunities in Geometry Textbooks, Samuel Otten, Nicholas J. Gilbertson, Lorraine Males, and D. Lee Clark
Children, Mathematics, and Videotape: Using Multimodal Analysis to Bring Bodies into Early Childhood Assessment Interviews, Amy Noelle Parks and Mardi Schmeichel
Alumnos transnacionales en México y Estados Unidos. Docentes y los desafíos de la globalización, Juan Sánchez García and Edmund T. Hamann
Boys, Books, and Boredom: A Case of Three High School Boys and Their Encounters With Literacy, Loukia K. Sarroub and Todd Pernicek
“Women Made It a Home”: Representations of Women in Social Studies, Mardi Schmeichel
Equitable Written Assessments for English Language Learners: How Scaffolding Helps, Marcelle A. Siegel, Deepika Menon, Somnath Sinha, Nattida Promyod, Cathy Wissehr, and Kristy L. Halvorson
“Push it Real Good!” The Challenge of Disrupting Dominant Discourses Regarding Race in Teacher Education, Kara Viesca, Cheryl E. Matias, Dorothy Garrison-Wade, Madhavi Tandon, and René Galindo
Reflections on Effective Writing Instruction The Value of Expectations, Engagement, Feedback, Data, and Sociocultural Instructional Practices, Kara Mitchell Viesca and Kim Hutchison
Supporting English and Spanish Literacy Through a Family Literacy Program, Stephanie Wessels
Drawing Their Way into Writing: Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students Finding Voice Through Mini-Novelas, Stephanie Wessels and Socorro G. Herrera,
Bringing Literacy Home: Latino Families Supporting Children's Literacy Learning, Stephanie Wessels and Guy Trainin
A Study on the Elementary School Teachers’ Awareness of Students’ Alternative Conceptions about Change of States and Dissolution, Chanho Yang, Taehee Noh, Lawrence C. Scharmann, and Sukjin Kang
2013
Anti-Immigrant Ideology in U.S. Crime Reports: Effects on the Education of Latino Children, Theresa Catalano
Occupy: A case illustration of social movements in global citizenship education, Theresa Catalano
The Roma and Wall Street/CEOs: Linguistic construction of identity in U.S. and Canadian crime reports, Theresa Catalano
The Roma and Wall Street/CEOs: Linguistic construction of identity in U.S. and Canadian crime reports, Theresa Catalano
Understanding the Language of the Occupy Movement: A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis, Theresa Catalano and John W. Creswell
Media discourse and dual language programs: A critical linguistic analysis, Theresa Catalano and Aleidine Kramer Moeller