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Joshua Radinsky, Assistant Professor [learn more] [contact] How do students learn to reason with visual information? My research applies cultural-historical activity theory to the study of teaching and learning with data visualizations, with a focus on historical and social inquiry. My research methods are design-based, using the process of designing and adapting learning environments -- curriculum, instruction, software, data inscriptions -- as a window through which to analyze how people learn, individually and socially. This research informs, and is informed by, professional development and teacher education in the social sciences, and studies of the social contexts of schooling in big cities like Chicago. |
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Taffy E. Raphael, Professor [learn more] [contact] Dr. Raphael is a member of the Literacy, Language, and Culture M.Ed. Program Faculty. She teaches courses related to literacy teaching and learning for pre and inservice teachers, as well as literacy research courses in the Ph.D. program. Her work in teacher education was recognized by her receipt of the Outstanding Teacher Educator in Reading Award from the International Reading Association, May, 1997. Dr. Raphael's research has focused on strategy instruction (e.g., Question and Answer Relationships or QAR), frameworks for instruction (e.g., Book Club), and school literacy reform through the Standards Based Change Process. Throughout these research projects, she has studied teacher learning and professional development through teacher study groups. She received Oakland University's Research Excellence Award in September, 2000 and was designated as a University Scholar at UIC in 2004. She is currently director of Partnership READ, a school-university partnership to improve literacy instruction through professional development, recognized by AACTE's 2006 Best Practices Award for Effective Partnerships. She was selected for the Reading Hall of Fame in 2002. |
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Aria Razfar, Assistant Professor [learn more] [contact] Dr. Razfar's research interests are grounded in sociocultural theories of language, learning, and human development. In particular, he draws on linguistic anthropological perspectives such as language socialization and language ideologies for the purposes of understanding learning and development in urban schools. He teaches courses in the Bilingual/ESL program as well as doctoral courses in Language, Literacy, and Culture. Dr. Razfar's work is anchored in communities whose language practices have been historically marginalized in many formal and official spaces of society; thus, there is an explicit social justice character to his research. He currently serves as a principal investigator or co-PI on several nationally funded grants aimed at improving teaching and learning for English Language Learners in urban contexts. |
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Flora V. Rodriguez-Brown, Professor [learn more] [contact] Dr. Rodriguez-Brown's research interests include literacy in a second language,home/school connections,early language and literacy development and language interaction in the classroom. She teaches courses on bilingualism and biliteracy, literacy learning in and out of school, bilingualism and literacy,learning in a second language in elementary school and literacy teaching in elementary classrooms. |