Department of Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education
Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications
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2008
Meeting the Needs of ELLs: Acknowledging the Schism Between ESL/Bilingual and Mainstream Teachers and Illustrating That Problem's Remedy, Edmund T. Hamann
Standards vs. 'Standard' Knowledge, Edmund T. Hamann
Accessing High-Quality Instructional Strategies, Edmund T. Hamann, Jenelle Reeves, Bradley Baurain, and Graciela Valenciano
From Nuevo León to the USA and Back Again: Transnational Students in Mexico, Edmund T. Hamann, Víctor A. Zúñiga, and Juan Sánchez Garcia
Content is Not Enough: A History of Secondary Earth Science Teacher Preparation with Recommendations for Today, Elizabeth B. Lewis
Utilizing peer interactions to promote learning through a web-based peer assessment system, Lan Li, Allen L. Steckelberg, and Sribhagyam Srinivasan
Turning Today’s Students into Tomorrow’s Stars, Aleidine Kramer Moeller, Janine Theiler, and Silvia Betta
Preparing Nebraska Teachers to See Demographic Change As an Opportunity, Jenelle Reeves and Edmund T. Hamann
Multicultural Education: Raj’s Story Using a Curricular Conceptual Lens of the Particular, Vicki Ross and Elaine Chan
Living “Glocally” With Literacy Success in the Midwest, Loukia K. Sarroub
A Multi-Year Program Developing an Explicit Reflective Pedagogy for Teaching Pre-service Teachers the Nature of Science by Ostention, Mike U. Smith and Lawrence C. Scharmann
Escuelas nacionales, alumnos transnacionales: la migración México/Estados Unidos como fenómeno escolar, Víctor A. Zúñiga and Edmund T. Hamann
Alumnos Transnacionales: Las Escuelas Mexicanas Frente a la Globalización, Víctor Zúñiga, Edmund T. Hamann, and Juan Sánchez García
2007
Learning How to Make Inquiry into Electricity and Magnetism Discernible to Middle Level Teachers , Gayle A. Buck, Margaret A. Macintyre Latta, and Diandra Leslie-Pelecky
But Sometimes Labor Migration Is About More Than Labor Migration: Complementary Perspectives of an Educational Anthropologist, Edmund T. Hamann
Retrieving Meaning In Teacher Education: The Question Of Being, Karl Hostetler, Margaret A. Macintyre Latta, and Loukia K. Sarroub
Using Analogies to Improve the Teaching Performance of Preservice Teachers, Mark C. James and Lawrence C. Scharmann
Formative Assessment Requires Artistic Vision, Margaret A. Macintyre Latta, Gayle Buck, and April Beckenhauer
Terms of inquiry, Margaret A. Macintyre Latta, Gayle Buck, Diandra Leslie-Pelecky, and Lora Carpenter
Learning Languages in a Digital World, Aleidine Kramer Moeller and Janine M. Theiler
Retention of First-Generation Mexican American Paraeducators in Teacher Education: The Juggling Act of Nontraditional Students, Amanda Morales, Gabriela Díaz de Sabatés, Cristina Fanning, and Kevin Murry
Technology Integration: PDAs as an Instructional and Reflective Tool in the Science Classroom, Jon E. Pedersen and Edmund A. Marek
Transracialized selves and the emergence of post-white teacher identities, John Raible and Jason G. Irizarry
Language: Use By Women: North America: Yemeni American Girls, Loukia K. Sarroub
Seeking refuge in literacy from a scorpion bite, Loukia K. Sarroub
“I was bitten by a scorpion”: Reading in and out of school in a refugee’s life, Loukia K. Sarroub, Todd Pernicek, and Tracy Sweeney
A Dynamic Professional Development School Partnership in Science Education, Lawrence C. Scharmann
Exploring Turkish Pre-service Science Education Teachers’ Understanding of Educational Technology and Use, Hakan Türkmen, Jon E. Pedersen, and Robbie McCarty
Evaluation of pre-service teachers’ images of science teaching in Turkey, Hulya Yilmaz, Hakan Turkmen, Jon E. Pedersen, and Pinar Huyuguzel Cavas
2006
Teacher Experiences of Culture in the Curriculum, Elaine Chan
Comparing Science Teaching Styles to Students' Perception of Scientists, Kevin D. Finson, Jon E. Pedersen, and Julie A. Thomas
Pensando en Cynthia y su Hermana: Educational Implications of United States–Mexico Transnationalism for Children, Edmund T. Hamann, Victor Zuniga, and Juan Sanchez Garcia
Risks and Opportunities within Self-Study: A Presentation for the S-STEP SIG, American Educational Research Association, 2006, Margaret A. Macintyre Latta, Gayle A. Buck, Teresa Abrahams, Chandra Diaz-DeBose, Sandra Dop, Kathy Fuchser, Joyce Lehn, Colette Mast, Virginia Newton, Judith Ruskamp, and Sarah Thomas
Identities in the Making: Realized In-Between Self and Other, Margaret A. Macintyre Latta and Lori Olafson
WebQuests, Teacher Preparation and Language Learning: Theory into Practice, Aleidine Kramer Moeller and Anastassia McNulty
Secondary Teacher Attitudes toward Including English-Language Learners in Mainstream Classrooms, Jenelle Reeves
Starting Conversations with Content Area Peers [Out of the Box], Jenelle Reeves
Informing Teacher Education through Cross-Cultural Teaching and Learning: Dialogic Inquiry into Japanese and Canadian School Experiences, Mitsuyo Sakamoto and Elaine Chan
Teaching Courses Online: A Review of the Research, Mary K. Tallent-Runnels, Julie A. Thomas, William Y. Lan, Sandi Cooper, Terence C. Ahern, Shana M. Shaw, and Xiaoming Liu
Going Home? Schooling in Mexico of Transnational Children, Víctor Zúñiga and Edmund T. Hamann
2005
Gaining interpretive competence through cross-cultural dialogue among teachers and researchers, Michelle Boone and Elaine Chan
An Action Research Project on Preparing Teachers to Meet the Needs of Underserved Student Populations, Gayle A. Buck and Jeanene G. Cordes
Preparing Teachers to Create a Mainstream Science Classroom Conducive to the Needs of English-Language Learners: A Feminist Action Research Project, Gayle A. Buck, Colette Mast, Nancy Ehlers, and Elizabeth Franklin
Survey of Changes in Science Teacher Preparation Programs Responding to Performance-Based Science Standards, Steven Gilbert, Jon E. Pedersen, and Cheryl Mason
Book Review - Coming of Age in U.S. High Schools: Economic, Kinship, Religious, and Political Crosscurrents. , Edmund T. Hamann
BOOK REVIEW - The Culture of Education Policy, Edmund T. Hamann
Systemic High School Reform in Two States: The Serendipity of State-Level Action, Edmund T. Hamann
Systemic High School Reform in Two States: The Serendipity of State-Level Action, Edmund T. Hamann
Multi-Party Mobilization for Adolescent Literacy in a Rural Area: A Case Study of Policy Development and Collaboration, Edmund T. Hamann and Julie Meltzer
Multi-Party Mobilization for Adolescent Literacy in a Rural Area: A Case Study of Policy Development and Collaboration, Edmund T. Hamann and Julie Meltzer
What Is "Good" Education Research?, Karl Hostetler
Improving Teacher Quality Through an On-Line Professional Development Course: A Research Study, Ekaterina Koubek and Aleidine Kramer Moeller
Book Review: Liora Bresler (Ed.). (2004). Knowing bodies, moving minds: Towards embodied teaching and learning. , Margaret A. Macintyre Latta
Considering the Nature of the Aesthetic through an Imaginary Letter Exchange, Margaret A. Macintyre Latta
Design Bearings, Margaret A. Macintyre Latta
THE NECESSITY OF SEEING RELATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY IN TEACHING AND LEARNING, Margaret A. Macintyre Latta
The flight from experience to representation: Seeing relational complexity in teacher education, Margaret A. Macintyre Latta and James C. Field
Meeting the Literacy Development Needs of Adolescent English Language Learners Through Content-Area Learning - PART TWO: Focus on Classroom Teaching and Learning Strategies, Julie Meltzer and Edmund T. Hamann
Optimizing Student Success: Focused Curriculum, Meaningful Assessment, and Effective Instruction, Aleidine Kramer Moeller
Documenting and Improving Student Learning Through the LinguaFolio, Aleidine Kramer Moeller, Vickie Scow, and Jacque Bott Van Houten
Review of Arab-American Faces and Voices: The Origins of an Immigrant Community, by Elizabeth Boosahda, Loukia K. Sarroub
A Proactive Strategy for Teaching Evolution, Lawrence C. Scharmann
Explicit Reflective Nature of Science Instruction: Evolution, Intelligent Design, and Umbrellaology, Lawrence C. Scharmann, Mike U. Smith, Mark C. James, and Murray Jensen
Evaluative Case Study of a Summer Academy Program, Elizabeth Wallace and Jon E. Pedersen
2004
Raising the Bar: Encouraging High Level Thinking in Online Discussion Forums, Mary M. Christopher, Julie A. Thomas, and Mary K. Tallent-Runnels
Introduction: Examining the Roles and Possible Roles of State Departments of Education in Comprehensive School Reform, Edmund T. Hamann
Lessons from the Interpretation/ Misinterpretation of John Ogbu’s Scholarship, Edmund T. Hamann
Practitioner Sensibility and the Negotiation of Contradictory School Reforms, Edmund T. Hamann
The Local Framing of Latino Educational Policy, Edmund T. Hamann
The Role of State Departments of Education in Comprehensive School Reform, Edmund T. Hamann and Brett Lane
The Roles of State Departments of Education as Policy Intermediaries: Two Cases, Edmund T. Hamann and Brett Lane
English Language Learners, Comprehensive School Reform, and State Education Agencies: An Overlooked Opportunity to Make Comprehensive School Reform Comprehensive, Edmund T. Hamann, Ivana Zuliani, and Matthew Hudak
Examining Students’ Views on the Nature of Science: Results from Korean 6th, 8th, and 10th Graders, Sukjin Kang, Lawrence C. Scharmann, and Taehee Noh
Reexamining the Role of Cognitive Conflict in Science Concept Learning, Sukjin Kang, Lawrence C. Scharmann, and Taehee Noh
Attunement to the Creating Process in Teaching & Learning, Margaret A. Macintyre Latta
Curriculum as Medium for Sense Making: Giving Expression to Teaching/Learning Aesthetically, Margaret A. Macintyre Latta
Retrieving possibilities: confronting a forgetfulness and deformation of teaching/learning methodology, Margaret A. Macintyre Latta
Traces, Patterns, Texture: In Search of Aesthetic Teaching/Learning Encounters, Margaret A. Macintyre Latta
Meeting the Literacy Development Needs of Adolescent English Language Learners Through Content Area Learning - PART ONE: Focus on Motivation and Engagement, Julie Meltzer and Edmund T. Hamann
Perceived professional needs of Korean science teachers majoring in chemical education and their preferences for online and on-site training, Taehee Noh, Jeongho Cha, Sukjin Kang, and Lawrence C. Scharmann
"Like Everybody Else": Equalizing Educational Opportunity for English Language Learners, Jenelle Reeves
Reframing for Decisions: Transforming Talk About Literacy and Assessment Among Teachers and Researchers, Loukia K. Sarroub
Uses of Technology by Science Education Professors: Comparisons With Teachers’ Uses and the Current Versus Desired Technology Knowledge Gap, John Settlage, A. Louis Odom, and Jon E. Pedersen
Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Teach with Technology: Getting Past Go in Science and Mathematics, Julie Thomas and Sandi Cooper
2003
Ethnic Identity in Transition: Chinese New Year through the Years, Elaine Chan
Claiming Opportunities: A Handbook for Improving Education for English Language Learners Through Comprehensive School Reform, Maria Coady, Edmund T. Hamann, Margaret Harrington, Maria Pacheco, Samboeun Pho, and Jane Yedlin
Reflections on the Field: Imagining the Future of the Anthropology of Education if We Take Laura Nader Seriously, Edmund T. Hamann
The Call to Play, Margaret A. Macintyre Latta and Karl Hostetler
Preservice Elementary School Teachers’ Understandings of Theory Based Science Education, Edmund A. Marek, Timothy A. Laubach, and Jon Pedersen
Foreign Language Teacher Education and Technology: Bridging the Gap, Aleidine Kramer Moeller and Hyesung Park
Standards for Science Teacher Preparation, National Science Teachers Association
Constructivism: Defense or a Continual Critical Appraisal – A Response to Gil-Pérez et al., Mansoor Niaz, Fouad Abd-El-Khalick, Alicia Benarroch, Liberato Cardellini, Carlos E. Laburu, Nicolás Marín, Luis A. Montes, Robert Nola, Yuri Orlik, Lawrence C. Scharmann, Chin-Chung Tsai, and Georgios Tsaparlis
The Risk of Intelligent Design, Lawrence C. Scharmann
Reforming Elementary Science Teacher Preparation: What about Extant Teaching Beliefs?, Julie A. Thomas and Jon E. Pedersen
Falling into It: Novice TESOL Teacher Thinking, Mark K. Warford and Jenelle Reeves
2002
Teaching discourses: Science teachers' responses to the voices of adolescent girls, Gayle A. Buck
Four Criteria for Engaging Girls in the Middle Level Classroom, Gayle A. Buck and Nancy Ehlers
Bringing female scientists into the elementary classroom: Confronting the strength of elementary students' stereotypical images of scientists, Gayle A. Buck, Diandra Leslie-Pelecky, and Susan K. Kirby
Collaborating to Study Science Teaching: A Case Study, Frank E. Crawley and Jon E. Pedersen