Rosemary Russ is one of 12 UW–Madison faculty members chosen to receive a Distinguished Teaching Award this year. These honors have been given out since 1953 and recognize the university’s finest educators. Russ is an associate professor in the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction, and the faculty co-director of the Madison Teaching and Learning Excellence program. She …
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. Dosun will …
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 …
UW–Madison alumna Andreal Davis has spent more than three decades working in the field of education as a teacher, instructional coach, and leader. Yet even after dedicating her career to this realm, she couldn’t help but feel there was more that could be done to help eliminate what she describes as “the attitude, opportunity, and …
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. Congratulations to the following individuals with ties to the UW–Madison School of Education who are among the recipients of this year’s Creative Arts Awards. Faculty Arts Research Emily Mead Baldwin …
By Karen Rivedal, WCER Communications UW–Madison researchers 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. Built using a variety of state and federal data sets, the …
UW–Madison’s Aydin Bal delivered the keynote address for an online conference at the Centro Universitário Carioca (Unicarioca), in Rio, Brazil, in Dec. 2021. Bal is a professor in the School of Education’s Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education (RPSE). Bal’s address, titled “Expansive Learning, Justice, and Joy: Systemic Transformation for Addressing Racial Disparities in Schools,” presents …
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. The committee was established in 1998 …
By Charlene N. Rivera-Bonet 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 …
A book of literary philosophy 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. Written in his mother tongue, Maltese, “Sejjieħ il-Ħsieb: Limitu u Ħelsien” (Rubble Walls of Thought: Limits and Freedom) is …