UW-Madison’s Mitchell Nathan and Martha Alibali took part in a virtual panel discussion on May 19 hosted by the Embodied Mathematical Imagination & Cognition (EMIC) team. The 90-minute event — titled “Instructional Gestures for Classrooms and On-Line Mathematics Learning” — was recorded and can be accessed via this EMIC web page. The panel focused its efforts on examining …
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 …
UW–Madison’s Caleb Probst was introduced to the Grand Challenges program during his first year as a master’s student with the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. After sharing some of his interests with advisor Erica Halverson, she recommended he consider joining “What the Moon Saw” — a Grand Challenges project that combined children’s theater with technology. …
UW-Madison’s Diana Rodríguez Gómez earlier this spring was named the winner of the 2020 Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP) Junior Faculty Teaching Award. Rodríguez Gómez is a native of Colombia who became an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies in January 2019. Her research agenda engages with the fields of anthropology …
UW-Madison’s Jerlando Jackson co-authored a recent article published in the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education that’s titled, “Mixed-reality simulations to build capacity for advocating for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the geosciences.” Jackson is the School of Education’s Vilas Distinguished Professor of Higher Education and chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy …
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.” Baldacchino is a professor with the School of Education’s Art Department. Written in his mother tongue, Maltese, “Sejjieħ il-Ħsieb” is Baldacchino’s first book of philosophy. This work takes a poetic yet rigorous …
The work of UW–Madison’s John Rudolph was recently noted in a report from The Washington Post headlined, “The scientific method can’t save us from the coronavirus: What we need is problem-solving — creativity, flexibility, and teamwork.” Rudolph, who chairs the School of Education’s No. 1-ranked Department of Curriculum and Instruction, is an expert on the history …
UW-Madison’s Pauline Ho recently received the UW-Madison Global Health Institute’s (GHI) Graduate Student Award Grant. Ho is a PhD student within the human development area of the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology. The award will fund her project, “Perceived Racial Discrimination and Mental Health: The Role of Meaning-making and Residential History.” This work was selected …
There are clear differences between men and women when it comes to how blood flow within their brains respond to stressors. The incidence of strokes, for example, is much lower in females until they experience menopause. After their hormone level changes, their risk rises. Yet there is little known about why this is the case. …
UW–Madison’s Kathryn Moeller co-authored an op-ed that was recently published by The Chronicle of Philanthropy headlined, “Gates Foundation’s tactics to remake public education during pandemic are undemocratic.” Moeller is an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies, and the author of “The Gender Effect: Capitalism, Feminism, and the Corporate Politics of …