Faculty Interests & Research Groups
Faculty Research Interests
| Name | Dept./Phone* | Areas of Interest |
|---|---|---|
| Adefope, Olufunke | T&L 478-8016 |
Mathematical learning and educational development of African-American male students, elementary school mathematics, mathematics teaching and learning in under-served low income communities. |
| Arrington, Nancy | T&L 478-5674 |
Service-learning; arts integration; self-efficacy of pre-service teachers |
| LTHD 478-5307 |
Educator stress factors, mobility of minority educators, politics in education, personality traits of successful leaders, motivation to school reform, high stakes testing, unsung heroes in education | |
| Bailey, Carrie | LTHD 478-5687 |
School, family, and adolescent counseling issues; exploring the developmental counseling needs of gifted students and their families; fostering family-school-community partnerships; developing empathy in both counselors and clients; application of humanistic counseling and educational approaches |
| Beck, Scott | T&L 478-0354 |
Representations of diversity in children's and young adult literature; migrant, immigrant (especially: Mexican American), ESOL education in the rural south |
| Bennett, Missy | T&L 478-0356 |
Partnerships and professional development schools, rural education, working with students from poverty, effective teaching strategies, teacher education |
| Bergin, Jim | LTHD 478-0873 |
Counseling with K-12 students, specifically group counseling and group guidance with elem/mid school students; planning, implementing, and evaluation of developmental school counseling programs; supervision of counseling interns and LPC applicants |
| Bodur, Yasar | T&L 478-7285 |
Multicultural teacher education, diversity in general and linguistic diversity in particular, field-based teacher education, reflective practice, classroom management |
| Boncana, Mohomodou | LTHD 478-7576 |
University-school-community partnership, parental involvement, issues of social justice, organizational change and research methods |
| Brinson, Mac | LTHD 478-5324 |
Politics of education |
| Brkich, Christopher A. | T&L 478-7630 |
Social studies education; critical pedagogy in civic education; authentic intellectual work; qualitative research theory; qualitative research methodology; the historical and philosophical foundations of education; art, film, and cultural studies in education |
| Brkich, Katie | T&L 478-7689 |
Elementary science education; place-based and inquiry science teaching and learning; science for social justice; gender, race, and socioeconomic bias in science; photo-elicitation qualitative methods |
| Brown, Sally Ann | CFR 478-7268 |
English language learners, Latino immigrants, K-3rd language and literacy development, classroom discourse analysis, sociocultural and critical perspectives on education |
| Calhoun, Daniel W. | LTHD 478-1428 |
College student development theory, masculinity/male identity in the college setting, leadership in student affairs/higher education, the use of technology in student affairs/higher education |
| Callahan, Brenda | LTHD 478-5309 |
Addictions counseling; working with resistant clients; supervision of counseling students; counselor impairment; women's issues in counseling; LGBT issues in counseling, particularly issues of LGBT counseling students |
| Carlson, Randal | LTHD 478-5260 |
Technology enhanced learning-new applications of technology to instruction, assessment, evaluation, research design, instructional design, hardware/software issues |
| Chambers, Wendy | CFR 478-5921 |
Developmental psychology, cognitive development in early childhood, memory development, development of understanding of the mind, pretend play and its influence on cognitive development, logical reasoning in children |
| Chamblee, Gregory | T&L 478-5701 |
Technology in all areas, integrating technology in P-12 mathematics, using differing strategies to teach mathematics, curriculum alignment |
| CFR 478-5715 |
Social and cultural foundations of education, media studies, documentary filmmaking, critical pedagogy, postcolonial theory | |
| T&L 478-5042 |
Science studies, critical pedagogy, science classroom culture, computer/calculator based laboratory technology | |
| Crawford, Kathleen | T&L 478-0353 |
Implementing standards-based classrooms through backwards design, strategy-based literacy instruction, children's literature, classroom management techniques, effective supervision of pre-service teachers, mentoring beginning teachers |
| Davis, C. Amelia | CFR 478-0201 |
Adult basic education, school push-out and high school leaving, transitions to adulthood, youths transitioning as adult learners, critical social theory, qualitative research methodology including arts based educational research, performance ethnography, and narrative. |
| Diamanduros, Terry |
LTHD 478-1548 |
Childhood trauma, the psychological impact of trauma on boys, mental health consultation in schools, neurodevelopmental and psychoeducational assessment, the role of school psychologists in school and outside school settings, early intervention and infant development |
| Dmitriyev, Grigory | CFR 478-5545 |
Curriculum studies, multicultural education, comparative education |
| Downs, Elizabeth | LTHD 478-5634 |
Technology integration in instruction, online learning, e-portfolios, iPad applications for instruction, cyberbullying |
| Draper, Christine | T&L 478-5747 |
Children's/young adult literature, pre-service teacher education, literacy across the content areas, reading/writing workshop, reader response theory, qualitative research |
| Drawdy, Kymberly Harris | T&L 478-5041 |
Appropriate delivery of services for students with disabilities in alternative placement and residential treatment facilities, transition goals and services for incarcerated youth with disabilities, self-determination as a motivational approach, professional development schools |
| Durodoye, Beth | LTHD 478-5307 |
Multicultural counseling competencies, social justice and advocacy in counseling, intercultural marriages, and international approaches to counseling |
| Edwards, Elizabeth Carr | CFR 478-5859 |
Critical inquiry pedagogy, sociocultural pedagogical theory, transactional theory, language and literacy development, vocabulary, struggling readers |
| Edwards-Joseph, Arline | LTHD 478-0502 |
Identity development of Caribbean students in primary, secondary, and tertiary learning institutions in the United States; international internships and supervision using technology; counselors and diversity training in the age of globalization; the role of religion and mental health seeking behaviors; the counselor's role in international education; counseling and the Caribbean culture; counselor (especially school counselors) and counselor educators' preparedness for globalization |
| Franks, Susan | T&L 478-0073 |
Early childhood language arts (grades pre-k - fifth), literacy development |
| Gallard, Alejandro | T&L 478-5719 |
Understanding the complexities that contribute to students’ lack of success: such as race, ethnicity, and gender and the tensions between education policy and teaching and learning in general and science in particular. |
| Gilpin, Lorraine | T&L 478-5614 |
Scholarship of teaching and learning, education for social responsibilities |
| Green, James | LTHD 478-5567 |
Leadership, organizational development, and ethics |
| Green, Lucy Santos | LTHD 478-0275 |
School librarianship in the 21st century, school libraries in Latin America, technology integration in teacher education, and online pedagogy |
| Griffin, Bryan | CFR 478-0488 |
Student ratings of instruction, high school dropout issues, issues of motivation, research methods and designs, statistics, survey sampling and development, measurement |
| Griffin, Marlynn | CFR 478-0695 |
Assessment-classroom and standardized, curriculum alignment, text processing, adjunct displays as they assist with learning, instructional improvement issues, social networking and professional ethics |
| Grimes, Lee E. | LTHD 478-8022 |
Social justice advocacy in school counseling with an emphasis on rural schools, facilitating career awareness and readiness for students in K-12 schools, rural education with an emphasis on school counseling leadership, collaboration, and interventions using social capital in rural communities |
| Haizlip, Breyan N. | LTHD 478-5917 |
Sexual identity development, privilege and oppression, gender equity, social class disparity, mulitcultural counseling, social justice advocacy, qualitative research, African American Diaspora, clinical mental health, college counseling and student development, and creating access to education. |
| He, Ming Fang | CFR 478-1546 |
Education, inquiry, and life in-between the Eastern, Western, and exile philosophy and pedagogy with a particular focus on Confucius, Dewey, Makiguchi, Ikeda, and Saïd; cross-cultural narrative inquiry of language, culture, and identity in multicultural contexts; cross-cultural teacher education, curriculum studies, activist practitioner inquiry, social justice research, exile curriculum, narrative of curriculum in the U. S. South, transnational and diasporic studies; oral histories of Chinese immigrants and their children's experience of language, culture, identity, and power in the neighborhoods, communities, and schools in the U. S. South; activist practitioner inquiry that explores life in Southern U. S. schools, families, and communities; and research on the education of minority and disenfranchised individuals and groups in Asia |
| Hilpert, Jonathan | CFR 478-5125 |
Intersection of motivation, instruction, and cognition; measurement and survey research; application and specification of domain general learning models to science knowledge construction |
| Hodges, Charles | LTHD 478-0497 |
Learner motivation, self-efficacy, self-regulation, online or technology enhanced teaching and learning, instructional design, emerging technologies, peer review as an instructional strategy |
| CFR 478-2496 |
Early childhood education; early childhood related field experiences; human growth and development that spans from prenatal development through adolescents; educational psychology focusing on student motivation, discipline and management techniques for maintaining a positive learning environment | |
| Jasper, Andrea D. | T&L 478-5092 |
Methods to accurately document the academic achievement of students with disabilities, low-incidence disabilities, disproportionality |
| Jenkins, Steve | CFR 478-5300 |
Research design and statistical analysis |
| Jensen, Devon | LTHD 478-7267 |
Higher education leadership, links between higher education and economic development, adult learning theories, higher education policy, international higher education, qualitative research theories/methodologies |
| Jupp, James C. | T&L 478-8534 |
Diversity and education, life history and narrative, progressive teacher identities, and teacher education and development |
| Kennedy, Kathryn | LTHD 478-5307 |
Pre-service and in-service teacher, technology specialist, and library/media center specialist professional development for technology integration and instructional design in traditional, blended, and online learning environments; K-12 virtual schooling; online learning; instructional design |
| Kimball, Lewis | LTHD 478-5039 |
School psychologogists' roles and functions in the public school setting, psychoeducational assessment, public school funding issues |
| Koballa, Thomas R., Jr. | Dean 478-5649 |
Science teacher learning and mentoring |
| LaFrance, Jason | LTHD 478-5642 |
Developing school culture, utilization of technology for leadership and instructional purposes, K-12 school improvement |
| Lake, Robert | CFR 478-0355 |
Multicultural education, imaginative education, educational biography, the history of ideas, teacher identity, qualitative research and critical pedagogy |
| LaMontagne, Maggie | T&L 478-1268 |
Families, preschoolers with disabilities, program evaluation, collaboration, dual certification |
| Landers, Eric | T&L 478-1549 |
School-wide positive behavior interventions and support (all levels), functional behavior assessment (FBA) and behavioral intervention planning (BIP), emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD), classroom-based behavioral interventions, systems change, inclusion |
| Linderholm, Tracy | Assoc Dean Graduate 478-5095 |
Cognitive and metacognitive processes involved in advanced reading, science text comprehension, multiple text processing, and individual cognitive differences in reading such as constraints in working memory capacity and dyslexia |
| Liston, Delores | CFR 478-1551 |
Curriculum Studies, philosophy of education, feminism, gender studies, joy in education, ethics and education, sexual harassment in schools |
| Lu, Hsiu-Lien | T&L 478-0210 |
Student teaching locally and internationally, supervision in teacher education, teaching and learning with/without technology, assessments of educational programs, and school reform |
| Lubin, Ian | CFR 478-7831 |
Human cognition and motivation; learning and instruction, learning environments; educational technology, instructional design and technology; educational research and evaluation, research methodology; and social and cultural conditions of learning, identity and belonging, time perspective |
| Marina, Brenda | LTHD 478-5600 |
Women in leadership/higher education, leadership through mentoring, cultural competence, the global achievement gap,
narrative inquiry |
| Maudlin, Julie | T&L 478-5441 |
Early childhood education, cultural curriculum studies, creativity, consumption, and public pedagogy |
| Mayes, Robert L. | T&L 478-8538 |
Research on quantitative reasoning in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), teaching and learning of mathematical modeling and problem solving grades 6-12 and transition to lower level undergraduate in STEM, development of virtual online graduate programs in STEM education and research on assessing impact on teacher practice and student learning, technology in teaching and learning mathematics |
| Mays, Russell | LTHD 478-5605 |
The Rosenwald Schools and other workings of the Rosenwald Foundation, storytelling as a leadership/teaching tool, music and arts in education, the principalship (including issues of fitness in the principalship), school facilities, many areas of history and social change, group/team leadership |
| McKenna, Beverly | T&L 912-659-1961 |
Global education, teacher preparation, literacy, motivational strategies |
| Melton, Teri | LTHD 478-0510 |
Dispositions of leaders; global perspectives on school leadership behaviors and characteristics; the principal as instructional leader; leadership capacity; principal retention; performance-based leadership training |
| Moore, Michael | CFR 478-0211 |
Literacy, English education literature, content reading, problem finding and solving, reading/writing connections, composition, editor of English Education published by the National Council of Teachers of English |
| Morris, Marla | CFR 478-5942 |
Curriculum Studies, Eastern and Central European history, Holocaust Studies, psychoanalysis, queer theory, poststructuralism |
| Nelson, Betty | T&L 478-5983 |
Effects of inclusive educational setting- both preschool and 5-21; teacher preparation- preservice teacher development- successful ways to supervise and mentor; effects of having a family member with a disability |
| Newkirk, April | T&L 478-5236 |
Early childhood reading and social studies education, multicultural teacher education, teacher education through field supervision |
| Parks, Fayth | LTHD 478-5738 |
Mental health, ethnopsychology, positive psychology, health and spirituality, cultural competency in counselor education and psychology, student services in higher education |
| Powell, Pam | T&L 478-0825 |
Early childhood language arts and children's literature |
| Rea, Dan | CFR 478-1547 |
Learning communities, small schools, student well-being, student dispositions, peace education, educational change, high-performing high-poverty schools, achievement motivation, student underachievement, resilience, creative thinking strategies, math education. |
| Reidel, Michelle | T&L 478-5806 |
Democratic education, social studies teacher education, affective dimensions of teaching and learning |
| Repman, Judith | LTHD 478-5394 |
Information literacy, school library media centers, applications of technology in the teaching/learning process, online and distance learning |
| Reynolds, William | CFR 478-0291 |
Post-structural analysis of curriculum issues, curriculum theory, film studies, cultural curriculum studies, critical teaching, critical thinking, Freirian approaches to pedagogy |
| Rittschof, Kent | CFR 478-0696 |
Educational psychology, human learning and cognition, instructional technology, and educational/psychological measurement |
| Robbins, Judi | T&L 478-7691 |
Language and literacy development, EC language arts with an interest in writing |
| Ross, Sabrina | CFR 478-0008 |
Critical pedagogy, teaching for social justice, black feminist and womanist epistemologies, issues of power in schools |
| Schriver, Martha | T&L 478-5783 |
Gender issues in science, mathematics and technology, teacher beliefs, science teacher efficacy, and integration of technology |
| Sheppard, Ronnie | T&L 478-0198 |
Literacy: ages 10-15, teaching and consulting in middle grades literacy |
| Soares, Lina | T&L 478-7644 |
Critical pedagogy and critical literacy, content-area literacy, adolescent literacy, teacher education, and gifted education |
| Stevenson, Alma D. | CFR 478-5425 |
Diverse learners, sociocultural and linguistic perspectives on science education, K-6 language and literacy development, classroom discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis (CDA), and ESL/Bilingual education |
| Thomas, Deborah | Assoc Dean Undergrad 478-5247 |
International educational issues, teacher professional development, and teacher preparation |
| Tootle, Kathleen | T&L 478-5585 |
Educating current and future general education teachers about appropriate accommodations and successful teaching strategies for students with disabilities, collaborating with general education teachers in an inclusive setting, working with teacher preparation and preservice teacher programs, mentoring beginning teachers, teaching students with disabilities to self-advocate |
| Tremble, Johnny | T&L 478-7630 |
Classroom management, teacher leadership, at risk youth |
| Tysinger, Dawn | LTHD 478-5792 |
School psychology consultation, supervision, and the training of school psychologists |
| Weaver, John | CFR 478-1709 |
Cultural studies of science and technology, popular culture, academic politics, using pharmaceuticals to control children |
| Weems, Denise | T&L 478-5768 |
Parental involvement, children's literature, differentiated instruction, curriculum and instruction, No Child Left Behind, increasing student achievement, closing the achievement gap, Best Practice, research based instructional strategies, effective reading instruction |
| Williams-Johnson, Meca | CFR 478-5252 |
School reform, school choice, home education, parental involvement, student motivation, teacher efficacy, emotions in teaching and learning, qualitative research design, mixed-method in social research, African-American education, multicultural curriculum, black feminist theory |
| Woodward, Shelley | T&L 478-7629 |
Preservice teacher development, teaching strategies for students with disabilities, children's literature |
| Zhu, Linxiang | CFR |
Validity and reliability studies; research design; structural equation modeling; ethnic identity development of immigrant adolescents; teaching and learning Mandarin Chinese as a heritage language |
| Zinskie, Cordelia | CFR 478-0672 |
Online teaching and learning, research methods |
* Telephone area code is 912 unless otherwise noted.
Research Groups
Democracy and Education Research Group
The group is open to anyone in the COE who is interested in democratic education, social justice, and related concepts. The group has drafted a mission statement and a research plan. Co-leaders emerged from the group, Alejandro Gallard and Michelle Reidel. The next meeting will be Friday, Nov. 2, 2:00 pm, in the Dean's Conference Room (COE 1100J) at which time the group will discuss two books that they have read to help frame the research project as well as selected information from the IDEA website. Please direct your questions about the next meeting or about the group to Drs. Gallard or Reidel.
Eagle QuaRC Qualitative Research Community
Open to all qualitative researchers across campus, please contact Christopher Brkich (cbrkich@georgiasouthern.edu) with questions and/or to suggest topics.
The next meeting will be March 8, 12:00 noon - 4:00 p.m., Eagle QuaRC Qualitative Research Works-in-Progress Workshop. Based on our community's identified needs and wants, we will be hosting four consecutive 45-minute workshop sessions to provide advice and guidance on qualitative research projects currently underway. Our sessions are aimed at faculty and students alike, and will be guided by expert professors on the following topics:
1. Epistemological self-awareness & defining one's research interests and questions
2. Research design along with framework and methodology selection
3. Data collection and analysis guidance with YOUR IRB-approved data sets
4. Writing boot camp-refining one's product, from initial drafts to publication
The next meeting will be March 8, 12:00 noon - 4:00 p.m., Eagle QuaRC Qualitative Research Works-in-Progress Workshop. Based on our community's identified needs and wants, we will be hosting four consecutive 45-minute workshop sessions to provide advice and guidance on qualitative research projects currently underway. Our sessions are aimed at faculty and students alike, and will be guided by expert professors on the following topics:
1. Epistemological self-awareness & defining one's research interests and questions
2. Research design along with framework and methodology selection
3. Data collection and analysis guidance with YOUR IRB-approved data sets
4. Writing boot camp-refining one's product, from initial drafts to publication
Undergraduate Teacher Education Research Group
Next meeting TBA.