May 28, 2020
M Cecil Smith will become the dean of Southern Illinois University (SIU) Carbondale’s reorganized School of Education on July 13, pending approval of the SIU Board of Trustees. The announcement came via an SIU news release on May 20. Smith earned his PhD from the human development program within the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology in 1988.
May 27, 2020
This award, for $145,000, is part of the NSF’s COVID-19 rapid grants program. Hora, the principal investigator, is an assistant professor with the Department of Educational Policy Studies and the director of the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions (CCWT). Chen is an assistant researcher within WCER who works with CCWT on research projects.
May 27, 2020
The 2020 Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT) Conference was a virtual, international conference designed to serve as a premier venue for peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary research on broadening participation in computing.
May 26, 2020
Bianca Baldridge, a sociologist of education and an assistant professor with the Department of Educational Policy Studies, explains that her research “challenges liberal and progressive claims of social justice in education within predominantly white cities that reify anti-Black racism.”
May 26, 2020
The 90-minute event was recorded and can be accessed via the Embodied Mathematical Imagination & Cognition team's website. The panel focused its efforts on these questions: Why is gesture important for learning and teaching? What can gesture research tell us about how to make online learning effective? What can we expect to be challenges for online learning? What advice for parents do you all have right now — and for teachers facing online instruction?
May 25, 2020
Each May, the UW–Madison Division of the Arts celebrates artistic achievement, recognizes service to the arts, and supports arts research by bestowing the Awards in the Creative Arts. And once again, artists associated with the School of Education were recipients of these honors. Fred Stonehouse received the Creative Arts Award and Leslie Smith III was recognized with the Emily Mead Baldwin Award in the Creative Arts.
May 22, 2020
Caleb Probst worked on this project during both the 2018-19 and 2019-20 academic years, and says the experience was influential in defining his first year of graduate school. Probst, who is finishing up his master’s degree this summer, will begin pursuing a PhD with the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the fall. He currently has a strong interest in the power of children’s informal learning opportunities.
May 22, 2020
Diana Rodríguez Gómez earlier this spring was named the winner of the 2020 Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP) Junior Faculty Teaching Award. She is an assistant professor with the Department of Educational Policy Studies.
May 21, 2020
UW-Madison’s Jerlando Jackson co-authored a recent article titled, “Mixed-reality simulations to build capacity for advocating for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the geosciences.” Co-authors on this paper include Jason Chen of the William & Mary School of Education and M. Shane Tutwiler of the University of Rhode Island.
May 21, 2020
UW-Madison’s John Baldacchino recently released two new books, “Sejjieħ il-Ħsieb: Limitu u Ħelsien (Rubblewalls of Thought: Limit and Freedom)” and “Educing Ivan Illich: Reform, Contingency, and Disestablishment.”