Research Interest
Faculty from the academic departments in the College of Education and P-16 Integration focus on the research topics listed below.
Bilingual and Literacy Studies
Research Interest
- • Dual language instruction
- • Bilingual education
- • The use of children’s literature in multicultural settings
- • Sociocultural context and education
- • Literacy and English Language Learners
Counseling
Research Interest
- • School counseling
- • At-Risk Students (both public school and university)
- • Academic resilience (Public school and university)
- • Rural Schools
- • Bilingual counseling
- • Career development counseling
- • LGBT Community
- • Migration/immigration trauma
- • Mental health of unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UACS)
- • Identity development of UACS
- • Dreamwork-based cognitive interventions for trauma resolution
- • Enhancing metacognition in dreaming (lucid dreaming)
- • Group and individual dream analysis based on co-creative dream theory
- • Organizational Change and Strategic Planning
- • Ethical Leadership
- • Leadership in Student Personnel (Student Affairs)
- • Adult and Juvenile justice populations
- • Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking
Human Development and School Services
Research Interest
- • Language and literacy development of dual language learners through play
- • Development of cognitive skills of dual language learners through play-based learning
- • Creating engaging classroom environments for young dual language learners
- • Peer scaffolding during play-based learning
- • Online education in higher education
- • Critical studies & video ethnography in special education
- • Bilingual Special Education
- • Autism and Applied Behavior Analysis
- • Analysis of nested hierarchical data structures and adjusting for nested effects in nested hierarchical data structures
- • Motivation factors for at-risk students
- • Transition of special education students to post-secondary life
- • Peer Assisted Learning
Organization and School Leadership
Research Interests
- • Professional Learning Communities
- • Principal Preparation Program to Address Students with Special Needs
- • Knowledge of ADHD and Mental Health
- • Stress of Principals in the Workplace
- • Organizational Health on Student Performance
- • Teacher Retention in Rural Schools
- • Culturally Responsive School Leaders
- • School Leaders in Rural Schools
- • AVID Teacher Preparation Initiative
- • Teacher Leaders
Teaching and Learning
Research Interest
- • Chicanx studies in teacher education
- • Community and Service Learning
- • Critical Race Theory and Critical Race Feminism
- • Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices in STEM
- • Curriculum and Instruction sciences
- • Curriculum development
- • History of curriculum and curriculum studies
- • Inclusive Education
- • International and Comparative Education
- • Latinx Critical Theory and Chicano Feminist Epistemologies
- • Mathematics and science education
- • Modernity/coloniality/decoloniality
- • MOOCs, Distance Education, E-Learning
- • Nature of science and cultural relevance
- • Reconceptualist curriculum studies
- • Recruitment and Retention of Teachers in Rural Schools
- • Technology and cognition
- • Technology, teaching, and learning
- • Testimonio research and teacher education