College of Education and Human Development

Three CEHD Professors Receive Global Studies Grants

Congratulations to three CEHD faculty members for receiving 2013 research awards for new cutting-edge research from the Center for Global Studies.

The CEHD recipients are Supriya Baily, assistant professor; Kristien Zenkov, associate professor; and Anthony Pellegrino, assistant professor. The program provides seed grant support for innovative global projects.

International education is a strong strand within the Graduate School of Education, one of two schools within the College of Education and Human Development at George Mason University. Please see below for descriptions of the winning projects.

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Navigating and exercising power at the local level for elected female officials

Supriya Baily, Assistant Professor

This project seeks to understand the ways in which female elected officials in India perceive of their power and impact of their agency on the people with whom they interact and represent.  My methodology is framed around critical theory perspectives, in an effort to grasp the immediacy of the social environment, while simultaneously analyzing the social relations within that space and time.  The findings should explore the ways in which local women leaders place their experiences and insights within the context of establishing, navigating and exercising power in situations that otherwise might be challenging. 

 

Picturing a “Global” Citizen: Photo Elicitation and
Youths’ Notions of Civic Leadership in the US, Haiti, and Iraq

Kristien Zenkov, Associate Professor
Anthony Pellegrino, Assistant Professor

Distinct as they are, the US, Haiti, and Iraq are joined by questions of the very future of their political institutions and the definitions of citizenship, civic leadership, and social transformation by which these institutions are influenced. While it is perhaps young adults who best recognize the tensions between the notions of citizenship declared by their political powers, the realities of ordinary society members, and the highest democratic ideals, the young represent the demographic segment whose ideas are most consistently disregarded. We hypothesize that understanding notions of global citizenship can stimulate Iraqi, Haitian, and American youths’ engagement with their own nations’ and international forms of civic and political processes. “Picturing a ‘Global’ Citizen” will utilize photo elicitation methods to explore youths’ ideas about citizenship in these three contexts and, through analyses of participants’ images and writings, offer important insights into the notion of “global citizenship.”

 

 

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