December 2, 2020
During the course of the academic year, we’ll be sharing out Q&As completed by our newest faculty members in an effort to introduce them to our campus and School of Education communities.
School News
Kirchgasler authors new Discourse article, ‘The ends of inclusion’
December 1, 2020
UW–Madison’s Christopher Kirchgasler has published an article in Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education that is titled, “The end(s) of inclusion: ungrounding globalization and ‘the migrant’ in dialogue with hospitality.”
Former UW–Madison exchange student Lunga is finalist for Teacher of the Year award
November 30, 2020
Duduzile Lunga, who attended UW–Madison as an international exchange student in the fall of 2018, is a finalist for KFM 94.5's Teacher of the Year award in Cape Town, South Africa. Lunga is one of 10 finalists the radio station selected out of over 3,500 nominees.
Paper by UW–Madison’s Baldacchino offers new look at reading John Dewey
November 30, 2020
UW–Madison’s John Baldacchino has authored a paper offering a new look at engaging with the 19th/20th century philosopher and educator, John Dewey. The paper is titled, “Education’s Experience in an Age of Anti-Politics: Reading John Dewey in the Third Decade of the 21st Century," and it is published in a special edition of the journal Sisyphus focused on "Old Masters, New Meanings."
UW–Madison’s Widmer, Skibba receive Robert J. Menges Award
November 27, 2020
The School of Education’s Maria Widmer has been honored with a Robert J. Menges Award for Outstanding Research in Educational Development from the POD Network, with Karen Skibba, Department of Continuing Studies.
Dean Hess updates School faculty and staff during ‘tea-time’ event Nov. 11
November 24, 2020
The School of Education hosted a virtual “tea-time” with Dean Diana Hess on Nov. 11, offering an informal opportunity for the Dean to share updates and to answer questions from faculty and staff.
UW–Madison’s Burt is lead author on paper examining what motivates Black men to persist in engineering
November 23, 2020
UW–Madison’s Brian Burt is the lead author on a new paper published in the Teachers College Record titled, “Black Men in Engineering Graduate Programs: A Theoretical Model of the Motivation to Persist.”
Perez-Chavez honored with an Outstanding Women of Color Award
November 20, 2020
Jessica Perez-Chavez, a doctoral student with the School of Education’s Department of Counseling Psychology, is among this year’s UW–Madison Outstanding Women of Color awardees.
Dance Department presents Kloepper Concert Nov. 21-22, streamed live
November 19, 2020
The School of Education's Dance Department will present the annual Kloepper Concert Nov. 21-22, a livestream event of new student work from 11 student choreographers.
UW-Madison researcher’s instrument design fuels groundbreaking international study of teaching
November 19, 2020
Essential to the study’s success are observation systems designed by Courtney Bell, a principal investigator of the study and a UW–Madison learning sciences professor who directs the School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER). In building these systems collaboratively with global teaching experts, Bell’s team created the first standardized observational instruments used to measure the teaching and learning of the same unit of instruction across multiple countries.