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Artin Göncü, Professor [learn more] [contact] Dr. Goncu's work focuses on the role of social and cultural context in young children's development and education. His current research addresses the role of community and school influences on children's play. His books include Children's Engagement in the World and the recent Play and Development, which elaborate how parents, teachers, and peers contribute children's play and school activities. As an expert in constructivist and socio-cultural approaches, Dr. Goncu also studies teacher education and professional development.
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James R. Gavelek, Associate Professor [learn more] [contact] Dr. Gavelek's scholarly interests focus on the role of language and other embodied semiotic processes in understanding the development of mind. He is especially interested in the implications of an integrated and embodied semiotics for rethinking teaching, learning and the school curriculum. Dr. Gavelek serves on the editorial boards of Reading Research Quarterly and the Yearbook of the National Reading Conference. He is the coordinator of the Ph.D. program in Literacy, Language, and Culture. |
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Susan Goldman, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Education [learn more] [contact] Learning and assessment in subject matter domains such as literacy, mathematics, history, and science and roles for technologies in supporting assessment, instruction, and learning; digital literacy assessment; multiple source comprehension; technology supports for learning; educational change and teacher learning; discourse analytic methodologies. |
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Gerald Graff, Professor [learn more] [contact] Dr. Graff has written five books and edited six others in a long career advocating ways that educational institutions can close the gap between academic intellectual culture and that of its students and other citizens. He is a former Guggenheim Fellow and has lectured or consulted on curricular issues at more than 250 colleges and universities. In 2008 he becomes president of the Modern Language Association Of America. |
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Eric (Rico) Gutstein, Professor [learn more] [contact] My research and teaching interests include mathematics education, teaching for social justice and critical literacies in an urban, multicultural context, Freirean approaches to teaching/learning, and Chicago school policy. In my work, I argue that K-12 students need to be prepared through their mathematics education to investigate and critique injustice (such as racism and language discrimination), and to challenge, in words and actions, oppressive structures and acts. I prepare teachers who can teach mathematics and other subjects in this manner to students in urban settings. I have taught mathematics for social justice in my own classroom in a Chicago public middle school and currently work with the Greater Lawndale/Little Village High School for Social Justice (also a public school). There I co-teach with and support the math teachers, help teachers and students develop/teach/learn from social justice mathematics projects, and work with a group of students who are co-researchers, public advocates, and spokespeople for teaching and learning mathematics for social justice. Together, we (teachers, students, myself) study the process of creating a critical mathematics program for the school, focused on developing students' sociopolitical consciousness, sense of social agency, and their strong cultural/social identities. |