SOE Faculty Fall 2012 Presentations at Professional Meetings

The scholarly work of University of Michigan-Dearborn School of Education faculty is once again well represented at Fall 2012 national professional meetings. Here is a summary of recent and upcoming conference presentations:

Bonnie Beyer, professor, presented a paper at the 66th Annual Conference of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration in August addressing traditional organizational theories and their relationship to more recent constructs and concepts and how these newer concepts relate to leadership and oversight creating a culture of social justice in schools and educational systems.

Stein Brunvand, Laura Reynolds-Keefer, and Gail Luera presented a paper at the American Evaluation Association conference in Minneapolis in October addressing the complexity of evaluator roles when conducting an evaluation in an uncertain program climate, such as in a program serving at-risk youth.

Dara Hill, assistant professor, will give two presentations at the Literacy Research Association Conference in San Diego, CA in November. Her first paper examines fourth grade students’ participation of varying participation discourses at a high achieving, high poverty urban primary school in Detroit. The second presentation addresses one pre-service teacher’s experiences in a reading methods course and practicum, in partnership with a Southeast Michigan urban school.

Seong Hong, associate professor & Rosalyn Saltz Collegiate Professor of Education, presented a paper at the Association for Constructivist Teaching conference in Johnson City, Tennessee in October on integrative knowledge portfolio process.

Dick Moyer, professor, is speaking twice on Everyday Engineering, the book and journal column that he co-edits with associate professor Susan Everett, at the Conference for the Advancement of Science Teaching annual meeting in November.

LaShorage Shaffer, instructor, presented at the Division for Early Childhood Conference in October on young children with special needs. At the same conference, along with Mary Trepanier-Street (professor emerita) and Tammy Morris (Center for Exceptional Families), she presented on educational and medical transdisciplinary teaming as an element in the preparation of early childhood teachers. In addition, she joined Sallee Beneke (assistant professor, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA) and Hasan Zaghlawan (assistant professor, St. Thomas University, Minneapolis, MN) for a round table session to talk about topics related to the post Ph.D. job search process and becoming a junior faculty member at a college or university.

Julie Taylor, associate professor, will present a paper at the National Association for Multicultural Education conference in November about the issue of wearing headscarf (hijab) at schools in the United States. Dr. Taylor will present another paper in November at the Annual Conference of the National Council for the Social Studies focusing on teaching history with e-portfolios.