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CEHD Faculty - Research & Scholarship: June 2012

November 9, 2012

The faculty members at George Mason University's College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) have a scholarly impact locally, nationally, and worldwide.

Additional faculty information from CEHD's Graduate School of Education and School of Recreation, Health, and Tourism is also on the Faculty News page.


Presentations

  • David Wiggins gave the keynote address titled "Race, Ethnicity, and Sport" to the American History Teachers' Collaborative (AHTC) in Urbana, IL on April 13. The AHTC is a project funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Teaching American History grant program.
  • Jenice L. View was invited to testify on June 1 at the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands Oversight Hearing on the Future of the National Mall. Her testimony emphasized the educational and interpretative value of historic sites, monuments, and memorials. The hearing was broadcast on C-SPAN and WTOP-AM radio.
  • On behalf of the ACHIEVES (Advancing Healthcare Initiatives for Underserved Students) project team - Shane Caswell, Jatin Ambegaonkar, and Amanda Caswell -- Shane gave a presentation to the Prince William County Public School Board at their meeting held at the Kelly Leadership Center in Manassas on April 18. The school board and audience appreciated the positive work of the ACHIEVES project. The presentation can be viewed online (from minutes 30.15 to 61.30).
  • Shelley Wong, Ilham Nasser, and doctoral students Hye Young Shin and Maryam Saroughi participated in the Dialogue Under Occupation VI Conference at the Lebanese American University held from May 10. Hye Young presented Whose Bilingualism Counts? Heritage Learners' Perspective on Bilingualism, and Maryam presented Cultural Awareness Towards the Middle East. Ilham led a panel titled Palestinian Perspectives on Self and Other: Reviewing Critical Race, Feminist, and Post-Colonial Models for Understanding and Resisting Occupation, and Shelley led a panel titled “Perspectives on Politics and Policies of Occupation in Arizona, USA.

Awards

  • Rita Chi-Ying Chung was recently honored by the American Counseling Association as winner of the Kitty Cole Human Rights Award. The award honors an ACA member who has made significant contributions in the area of human rights. Her research focuses on multicultural, cross-cultural, and social justice issues in counseling; the psychological impact of racism; immigrant and refugee psychosocial adjustment and adaptation; the interrelationship of academic achievement and psychological stress on students of color; and interethnic race relationships. Her recent research is on trafficking Asian girls into commercial sex work, and she was invited to present at the United Nations in New York on cultural perspectives on children trafficking, human rights, and social justice.

Publications

  • Supriya Baily published “Framing the World Bank Education Strategy 2020 to the Indian Context—Alignments, Challenges, and Opportunities in C. Collins and A. W. Wiseman (Eds.), Education Strategy in the Developing World: A Conversation About the World Bank's Education Policy Development and Revision in volume 15 of the International Perspectives on Education and Society series. The series is published by Emerald Publishing, Bingley, UK.

Notable

  • Catherine Cardino, editor of Education Week, invited authors and editors of two books to write reviews of each other's book for Education Week's BookMarks blog. Rob Smith wrote a review of Thomas B. Timar and Julie Maxwell-Jolly's edited volume Narrowing the Achievement Gap: Perspectives and Strategies for Challenging Times (Harvard Education Press, 2012), a collection of chapters written by scholars that contain a range of perspectives on how educators are shrinking achievement gaps and why the gulf remains between the goal and its accomplishment. The link to Rob's review that appeared on May 29 is here. Thomas Timar's review of Rob and his co-authors' book, Gaining on the Gap: Changing Hearts, Minds, and Practice (Rowman and Littlefield, 2011), which describes the attempts of Arlington Public Schools to eliminate achievement gaps, appeared on May 30 and can be viewed here.

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