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Brownsville Address: One West University Blvd., BMAIN 2.306, Brownsville, TX 78520
Edinburg Address: 1201 West University Dr., EEDUC 3.102, Edinburg, TX 78539
Email: cep@utrgv.edu
Phone: Edinburg Campus (956) 665-3627
Phone Alt: Brownsville Campus (956) 882-5708
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Research Interest

Department Faculty Research Projects

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



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