Research Interest
Faculty from the academic departments in the College of Education and P-16 Integration focus on the research topics listed below.
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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
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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
- School counseling
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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
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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
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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