College of Education and Human Services
- Dr. Alina Reznitskaya - Educational Foundations
Dr. Alina Reznitskaya, assistant professor in Educational Foundations, was one of 20 scholars awarded a 2007 National Academy of Education Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship. Drawing on her previous research in Argument Schema Theory, she is seeking to produce a comprehensive picture of argumentation development among elementary school students. She is examining the connection between 1) specific features of group interactions experienced by elementary school students, and 2) individual student performance on multiple measures of argumentation. The study is designed to test increasingly influential theoretical assumptions regarding the role social interaction plays in individual learning. The research is being carried out in twelve classrooms in six elementary schools in Northern New Jersey. Students in half the classes will participate in dialogic interaction in the context of Philosophy for Children, a curriculum that places such interaction at the center of its pedagogy. Students in the other classes will receive no special type of instruction.
- Article by Professor Jaime Grinberg Selected as the Feature Focus for the Cultural Studies in Education online BLOG
An article co-authored by Professor Jaime Grinberg, Educational Foundations, has been selected as the Feature Focus for Volume 2, Issue 1 of the Cultural Studies in Education BLOG.
The article:
Calabrese-Burton, A., Grinberg, J., & Richardson, K. (2007). On pigs and packers. Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2 (1), 61-71.
Cultural Studies in Education (http://www.springerlink.com/content/120017/) is a relatively new journal that has as its editorial objective to publish articles that are cutting edge in terms of theory, method, and the issues addressed in the research. Once an article is accepted for publication the editors select the participants in a Forum, which is a companion publication that begins with an articulation of key issues in the article and then ratchets up the scholarly discussion by exploring the issues, theories, and methods employed in the paper in a deep way.
The BLOG constitutes an extension of the Forum, taking the discussion that has begun in the body of the text into the Internet. For each quarterly issue, the editors choose one article and its companion Forum to be highlighted for conversation on the BLOG.
The BLOG can be accessed at http://blogs.springer.com/csse.
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