Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education
Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications
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2025
Initial Results from an Iterative Program Design for Educating Science Education Leaders, Elizabeth B. Lewis, Elizabeth Hasseler, Rachel Benzoni, Gina S. Matkin, Wendy Smith, Daniel R. Claes, David M. Harwood, L. J. McElravy, and Dawn Jaramillo
2024
Collaborative Aesthetic Experiences and Teacher Learners: Arts-Practice Research in a Teacher Education Classroom, Theresa A. Catalano, Inoussa Malgoubri, Jennifer Bockerman, Hector Palala Martínez, Mackayla Kelsey, Leonardo Brandolini, and Ilia Shcherbakov
Discourses that Undermine Union Movements: A Multimodal Analysis of Union-Busting Videos, Theresa A. Catalano and Julia Schleck
A Science Teacher’s Experiences When Fostering Intercultural Competence among Students in Multilingual Classrooms: A Narrative Study, Uma Ganesan and Amanda R. Morales
Integrated STEM Professional Development: Utilizing Best Practices in an Online Format, Sarah Haines, Sumreen Asim, Deepika Menon, and Jeanna Wieselmann
Integrated STEM Professional Development: Utilizing Best Practices in an Online Format, Sarah Haines, Sumreen Asim, Jeanna R. Wieselmann, and Deepika Menon
Researching Teacher Self-efficacy: Linking Self-Efficacy to Teacher Effectiveness, Persistence and Retention, Sarah Haines, Deepika Menon, Jeanna R. Wieselmann, and Sumreen Asim
Initial Growth of Inclusive Knowledge and Leadership Practices by Science Education Teacher-Leaders, Elizabeth B. Lewis, Elizabeth Hasseler, Rachel Benzoni, and Gina S. Matkin
Mentoring Student Teachers for Ambitious and Inclusive Science Teaching, Elizabeth B. Lewis, Elizabeth Hasseler, Karen Covil, Amy Tankersley, and Susan Frack
Investigating Preservice Secondary Teachers’ Understanding and Enactment of the Standards‑Based Practices during Microteaching, Deepika Menon, Diana S. Chang, and Rosetta W. Ngugi
A Meta-Synthesis of the Literature on Science and Engineering Teaching Self-Efficacy: Current Gaps and Future Research Directions, Deepika Menon, Jeanna R. Wieselmann, Sarah Haines, and Sumreen Asim
Reimagining Science as a Natural Tool for Connection: A Restorative Approach, Zachary C. Schafer and Lawrence C. Scharmann
Science Teachers’ Initial use of NGSS Science Practices in Diverse Classrooms, Amy Tankersley, Elizabeth Hasseler, Elizabeth B. Lewis, Lyrica Lucas, and Brandon Helding
2023
Migrants, COVID-19, and Italy: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of the Construction of and Resistance to Nationalist Discourses, Alessia Barbici Wagner, Theresa Catalano, and Bryan Meadows
Effective Teachers of Multilingual Learners: A Mixed-Method Study of UK and US Critical Sociocultural Teaching Practices, Naomi Flynn, Annela Teemant, Kara Mitchell Viesca, and Ratha Perumal
The High School in the Middle of Everywhere: Nebraska’s Lincoln High, Edmund T. Hamann, Janet M. Eckerson, and Mark Larson
Comparison of Rural and Urban High School Science and Engineering Integration in Two School Districts, Elizabeth Hasseler and Elizabeth B. Lewis
Multiple Case Study of Science and Engineering Integration in Secondary School Across Six School Districts, Elizabeth Hasseler and Elizabeth B. Lewis
“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
Why Domain-Specific Science Knowledge Matters in Teacher Certification: Focusing on Evidence for Effective Science Teaching (Revised Version), Elizabeth B. Lewis, Lyrica L. Lucas, Amy Tankersley, and Elizabeth Hasseler
Using Drawing as a Tool for Investigating Undergraduate Conceptions of Earth Scientists, Peggy McNeal, Deepika Menon, Deef Allah Al Shorman, and Paulina Gajewska-Schaefer
Greater than the Sum of its Parts: Centering Science within Elementary STEM Education, Deepika Menon, Amy S. Bauer, Katie L. Johnson, Elizabeth Hasseler, Amanda Thomas, Ricardo Martinez, and Guy Trainin
Preservice Elementary Teachers Conceptions and Self-Efficacy for Integrated STEM, Deepika Menon, Deef A. A. Shorman, Derek Cox, and Amanda Thomas
Preservice Elementary Teachers Conceptions and Self-Efficacy for Integrated STEM, Deepika Menon, Deef A. A. Shorman, Derek Cox, and Amanda Thomas
Multicultural Teacher Knowledge: Examining Curriculum Informed by Teacher and Student Experiences of Diversity, Vicki Dea Ross and Elaine Chan
Religious influences on the growth of literacy practice, Loukia K. Sarroub and Cassandra Schroeder
Exploring STEM Teaching Assistants’ Self-Efficacy and Its Relation to Approaches to Teaching, Cody R. Smith, Deepika Menon, Annette Wierzbicki, and Jenny Dauer
Teaching Assistant Responses to COVID-19: Investigating Relationships Between Stress, Self-Efficacy, and Approaches to Teaching, Cody R. Smith, Deepika Menon, Annette Wierzbicki, and Jenny Dauer
Exploring STEM Teaching Assistants’ Self-Efficacy and Its Relation to Approaches to Teaching, Cody R. Smith, Deepika Menon, Annette Wierzbicki, and Jenny M. Dauer
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
‘Chinese virus’: A critical discourse analysis of anti-Asian racist discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic, Peiwen Wang and Theresa Catalano
“It was just my name!”: A CRT/CRF Analysis of International Female Graduate Students’ Perceptions and Experiences Regarding Their Ethnic Name, Peiwen Wang, Xiaoyan Gu, and Amanda Morales
The Bilingual Literacy Development Model: A Holistic Way to Support Spanish-Speaking Children, Stephanie Wessels
“Just attaching a face”: Engaging local refugee communities in preservice teacher education focused on students with immigrant/refugee backgrounds, Stephanie Wessels, Theresa Catalano, Jenelle Reeves, Alison E. Leonard, Uma Ganesan, Alessia Barbici-Wagner, and Consuelo Gallardo
From Bilingual to Biliteracy: Learning from Families, Stephanie Wessels and Guy Trainin
Exploring Teacher Leadership’s Effect on Teacher Burnout: Does School Rurality Make a Difference?, Jiangang Xia and Sam Butler
Teaching with collective resilience during COVID-19: Korean teachers and collaborative professionalism, Minseok Yang, Yujin Oh, Sunbin Lim, and Taeyeon Kim
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
Seeking Clarity in Murky Waters: Nuances of Equity and Social Justice from a Teacher Perspective, Elaine J. Chan
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
Changing faces and persistent patterns for education in the New Latinx Diaspora, Edmund T. Hamann and Linda Harklau
Research team as methodology: The value of pluri-national research teams for studying education and migration., Edmund T. Hamann, Betsabé Román, Juan Sánchez García, and Víctor Zúñiga
Secondary Science Teachers’ Curricular Use of NGSS Engineering Practices, Elizabeth Hasseler, Amy Tankersley, Ana M. Rivero, Lyrica L. Lucas, and Elizabeth B. Lewis
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
Novice General Education Teachers’ Perceptions of Preparedness in U.S. Public Schools: The Impact of Learning about and Working with Multilingual Students, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Qizhen Deng, and Kara Viesca
“At School, It’s a Completely Different World”: African Immigrant Youth Agency and Negotiation of Their Adaptation Processes in US Urban Schools, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Hanihani Moundiba Traore, and Guy Trainin
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
Social Justice in Teacher Education: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Tara Ratnam, Elaine Chan, and Darlene Ciuffetelli Parker
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
Immigrant Background Students’ Names and Identities in U.S. Schools: Voices from the Underground, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba
Cultural and linguistic experiences of immigrant youth: Voices of African immigrant youth in United States urban schools, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Alex Kumi-Yeboah, Patriann Smith, and Anthony Mawuli Sallard
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
“You Pulled the Chair from Right Under Me!”: How a Black Young Man Disappears from a High School Reading Class, Loukia K. Sarroub
Introduction to Doing Fieldwork at Home: The Ethnography of Education in Familiar Contexts: In the Field at Home; Onward, & Bibliography, Loukia K. Sarroub and Claire Nicholas
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
Designing an Integrated STEM Semester for Pre-service Elementary Teachers, Amanda Thomas, Matt Flores, Michael Hart, Elizabeth Hasseler, Tammera Mittelstet, Danae Peterson, and Amy Sokoll Bauer
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
Translanguaging for biliteracy: Book reading practices in a Chinese bilingual family, Shuling Yang, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, and Stephanie Wessels
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