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Educational Foundations

Faculty & Staff

Jeremy N. Price (Sabbatical: Spring 2012)

Chair

Education - Ph.D., Michigan State University; H.D.E. (Sec)., H.DJourn., B.Comm., Rhodes University, South Africa.
Research/Interests - Teacher education for social justice; action research, youth identities and schooling, transformative pedagogies, educational policy and teaching

Office - University Hall, Room 2129
Phone - (973) 655-5170
Email - pricej@mail.montclair.edu

Brenda Godbolt

Secretary


Office - University Hall, Room 2128B
Phone - (973) 655-5170
Email - godboltb@mail.montclair.edu


Faculty

Zoe Burkholder

Education - Ph.D. New York University; M.A. University of California, Berkeley; B.A. University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Research/Interests - Social construction of race in schools; history of educational antiracist activism; teachers and schools in the long civil rights movement

Office - University Hall, Room 2140
Phone - (973) 655-3481
Email - burkholderz@mail.montclair.edu

Brian Carolan

Education - Ph.D., Teachers College, Columbia University; M.Phil., Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University; B.A., Rutgers College, Rutgers University
Research/Interests - Sociology of education; school and classroom organization; social networks

Office - University Hall, Room 2161
Phone - (973) 655-7175
Email - carolanb@mail.montclair.edu

Nicole DiDonato

Education - Ph.D. Rutgers University, New Brunswick; M.Ed. Rutgers University, New Brunswick; B.S. Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Research/Interests - Self-regulated learning; collaborative learning; authentic tasks/assessments; teaching and learning in urban schools
Profile - Nicole DiDonato

Office - University Hall, Room 2110
Phone - (973) 655-3028
Email - didonaton@mail.montclair.edu

Helenrose Fives

Education - Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park; M.A., Trinity College; B.A., The Catholic University of America
Research/Interests - Research focuses on the intersection of teacher beliefs and practices with an emphasis on understanding the interrelationship between teachers' beliefs (specifically efficacy, knowledge, and ability beliefs) and the process of teaching and learning to teach. Interests include developing a better understanding of the teaching learning process with particular focus on the teaching as persuasion metaphor
Profile - Helenrose Fives

Office - University Hall, Room 2135
Phone - (973) 655-7162
Email - fivesh@mail.montclair.edu

Maughn Gregory

Education - Ph.D., Iberoamericana University; M.A., University of Hawaii; J.D., J. Ruben Clark Law School
Research/Interests - Philosophy and education; critical thinking
Profile - Maughn Gregory

Office - University Hall, Room 2197
Phone - (973) 655-7049
Email - gregorym@mail.montclair.edu

Jaime Grinberg

Education - Ph.D., Michigan State University; M.A., Eastern Michigan University; B.A., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
Research/Interests - Teacher education; historical, cultural, political and social contexts of schooling; teaching; educational leadership; professional development
Profile - Jaime Grinberg

Office - University Hall, Room 2137
Phone - (973) 655-7641
Email - grinbergj@mail.montclair.edu

Kathryn G. Herr (Interim Chair)

Education - Ph.D., Ohio State University; MSW, Fordham Graduate School of Social Services, B.S., Millersville University
Research/Interests - Qualitative and action research, equity issues in schools, fit/lack of fit between diverse student bodies and schools, issues of gender, youth studies; adolescents

Office - University Hall, Room 2133
Phone - 973-655-6845
Email -herrk@mail.montclair.edu

David Kennedy

Education - Ed.D., University of Kentucky; M.S., Eastern Montana College; B.A., Luther College
Research/Interests - Community of inquiry; history of childhood

Office - University Hall, Room 2139
Phone - (973) 655-4279
Email - kennedyd@mail.montclair.edu

Tyson Lewis

Education - Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Research/Interests - Critical pedagogy, critical theory, sociology of schooling, surveillance theory, cultural studies and education
Profile - Tyson Lewis

Office - University Hall, Room 2131
Phone - (973) 655-7094
Email - lewist@mail.montclair.edu

Tamara Lucas

Education - Ph.D., M.A., Stanford University; M.A., San Francisco State University; B.A., Centre College of Kentucky
Research/Interests - Culturally and linguistically responsive teaching, the preparation of teachers to teach culturally and linguistically diverse students, the education of English language learners

Office - University Hall, Room 3141
Phone - (973) 655-7128
Email - lucast@mail.montclair.edu

Jamaal Matthews

Education - Ph.D., University of Michigan; M.S., Mercy College; B.A., Columbia University
Research/Interests - Self-regulated learning; achievement motivation; ethnic minority youth and urban education; adolescent identity development; early childhood cognitive and social development

Office - University Hall, Room 2112
Phone - (973) 655-3027
Email - matthewsj@mail.montclair.edu

Alina Reznitskaya

Education - Ph.D., M.Ed., M.S., B.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research/Interests - Development and assessment of argumentation and reasoning
Profile - Alina Reznitskaya

Office - University Hall, Room 2135
Phone - (973) 655-4080
Email - reznitskayaa@mail.montclair.edu

Mark L. Weinstein

Education - Ph.D., The City University of New York; M.A., The City College of New York; B.A., Brooklyn College
Research/Interests - Philosophy of education, methods of inquiry
Profile - Mark L. Weinstein

Office - University Hall, Room 2129
Phone - (973) 655-7041
Email - weinsteinm@mail.montclair.edu


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