January 25, 2022
UW–Madison alumnus Dosun Ko has been named as the 2022 president-elect of the Council for Exceptional Children’s Division for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Exceptional Learners (DDEL). Ko earned his PhD from the School of Education’s Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education in 2020. He is currently an assistant professor in the School of Education at Wichita State University.
January 22, 2022
The Turkish Education Association has published an interview with UW–Madison’s Michael W. Apple on the limits and possibilities of current educational policies and practices. Apple is the John Bascom Professor Emeritus of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies in the School of Education and has a long history of working with critically democratic educators in Turkey.
January 21, 2022
Andreal Davis — who has spent more than three decades in the field of education as a teacher, instructional coach, and leader — earned a BS in elementary education in 1986 and a master's in curriculum and instruction in 1994 from the School of Education.
January 19, 2022
Each spring, the UW–Madison Division of the Arts celebrates artistic achievement, recognizes service to the arts, and supports arts research by bestowing the Creative Arts Awards. This year's awards include several individuals with ties to the UW–Madison School of Education.
January 18, 2022
UW–Madison researchers from the School of Education's Wisconsin Center for Education Research teamed with New England conservation nonprofit Mass Audubon to create an online learning game that lets players model how different zoning choices would affect the environment, jobs, housing, and other real-world factors for any location in the contiguous U.S.
January 14, 2022
UW–Madison's Aydin Bal, a professor in the School of Education's Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education, and Fabiane Bravo, a PhD candidate in RPSE, spoke at an online conference at the Centro Universitário Carioca (Unicarioca), in Rio, Brazil, in Dec. 2021. Bal delivered the keynote address for the conference, titled “Expansive Learning, Justice, and Joy: Systemic Transformation for Addressing Racial Disparities in Schools."
January 11, 2022
UW–Madison’s Mitchell Nathan has been invited to serve as an advisor on the Advisory Committee of the Centre for University and School Partnership (CUSP) in the Faculty of Education at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Nathan is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology.
January 10, 2022
While balance training may not necessarily sound fun to most adolescents, video games typically do. And for adolescents with autism spectrum disorder, video games that improve their balance by teaching them yoga and tai chi poses also improve their posture, reduce the severity of their autism symptoms, and influence the structure of their brains.
January 7, 2022
A book of literary philosophy, written in Maltese by UW–Madison’s John Baldacchino, was a finalist in the Literary Nonfiction category for Malta’s National Book Prize. Baldacchino is a professor of art and education within the School of Education’s Art Department.
January 6, 2022
A project by UW–Madison student Nicole Golownia has been selected for ARTIFACT [BOLD], a national biennial exhibition of graphic design, new media, illustration, printmaking, and the expanded field that is taking place Jan. 24 – Mar. 11 at High Point University in High Point, North Carolina. Golownia is pursuing her BFA in graphic design within the School of Education’s Art Department.