GATE Fellows Inaugural Cohort ~ 2007-2008
The 2007-2008 GATE Fellows—(l to r) Rebecca Oxford, Jeanne Gailbraith, Jing Lin, Randy McGinnis, Roberta Lavine, and Jennifer Turner (Jeanine Staples, not pictured) with Saul Sosnowski, Director of the Office of International Programs and project staff Lisa Swayhoover and Jim Greenberg, Project Director.	Jeanne Galbraith, EDHD Roberta Lavine, EDCI & Spanish Jing Lin, EDHI Randy McGinnis, EDCI Rebecca Oxford, EDCI Jeanine Staples, EDSP Jennifer Turner, EDCI
Project Goals and Research Interests
Dr. Jeanne Galbraith is the Professional Development, Research, and Practicum Coordinator in the Early Childhood Teacher Education program in the Department of Education and Human Development.  Her teaching and scholarship integrates multiple perspectives, including international perspectives, to critically examine issues and trends in early childhood education and child development. Dr. Galbraith is particularly influenced by the international perspectives of the early childhood programs in Reggio Emilia, Italy.  As a GATE fellow, she is focusing on integrating international perspectives on Early Childhood Education into her courses in the Early Childhood program.
Dr. Roberta Z. Lavine is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Adjunct Associate Professor of TESOL. Her research focuses on the acquisition of culture and the use of technology in the teaching learning process. Dr. Lavine has extensive experience working with university professors in Latin America and was a Fulbright scholar in Chile in 2005. She is working on an extensive project involving professional development with teaching portfolios with Jim Greenberg and colleagues in Chile, Ecuador, and Peru. For her GATE fellows project, she plans to set virtual partners with TESOL teacher candidates at the University and EFL teachers in Ecuador.
Dr. Jing Lin is a Professor in the Department of Education Leadership, Higher Education and International Education. She is also Associate Director of the Confucius Institute at University of Maryland. Dr. Lin has done extensive research on Chinese education, culture and society. In particular, she has systematically studied social changes in China and educational reforms undergoing in that country since 1978. She is the author of four books: The Red Guard’s Path to Violence (1991), Education in Post-Mao China (1993), The Opening of the Chinese Mind (1994), and Social Transformation and Private Education in China (1999). Her research has also focused on issues of gender, ethnicity, social class and equality of educational opportunity. Her most recent research is on China ’s higher education expansion, civil society and global cultural dialogues. Dr. Lin’s research also concentrates on peace education, environmental education, and spirituality education. She published Love, Peace and Wisdom in Education: Vision for Education in the 21st Century in 2006, and a book she co-edits, entitled Educators as Peace Makers: Transforming Education for Global Peace, is forthcoming. She is the leading editor of a Book Series on Peace Education. Dr. Lin plans to work with Prof. Rebecca Oxford to integrate East Asian philosophy into undergraduate education.
Dr. J. Randy McGinnis is a Professor in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction with a focus on research and teacher education in elementary and middle school science education. Throughout his career, he has promoted a global and international perspective. He taught science in Africa (Swaziland) and in several states in the USA. Internationally, he has lectured in Taiwan as a science education researcher, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Research in Science Teaching. As a GATE Fellow, Dr. McGinnis will infuse a global and international perspective of science education in the University of Maryland Elementary Teacher Education Program. He will develop and study a model science curriculum unit in his science methods course that necessitates a global perspective. The content area he will focus on is climate change, one of the most important unsolved scientific issues facing the world’s population, since we all share the same atmosphere. Solution to this worldwide in scope problem will require a global/international perspective that he believes necessitates innovation in science education pedagogy. New teachers of science need models of how to successfully teach science concepts that are global in scope and require political action beyond the limits of any one country, Therefore, Dr. McGinnis believes that science teacher educators particularly need to take the lead in developing new ways to achieve this goal. The GATE Fellowship will support him in taking the lead in this effort, and it will contribute to positioning the UM College of Education in the forefront of international science education.
Dr. Rebecca Oxford is Professor of Second Language Education and Culture and Senior Fellow of the Confucius Institute at the University of Maryland. She has presented her research in 50 countries and on all continents except Antarctica and has ongoing research relationships with colleagues in China, Taiwan, Canada, Korea, and Germany. She has authored books, including Language Learning Strategies: What Every Teacher Should Know, Patterns of Cultural Identity, the forthcoming Teaching and Researching Language Learning Strategies, and others; served as series editor for the Tapestry English program, currently in North American, Middle Eastern, Chinese, and Japanese editions; and edited books, including Language Learning Strategies around the World: Cross-cultural Perspectives, Language Learning Motivation: Pathways to the New Century, and others. She is thrilled to be editing an international book on the "multilevel language of peace" for Dr. Jing Lin's Peace Education Series and, with Dr. Lin, to be integrating East and West in a major undergraduate course.
Dr. Jeanine Staples was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Special Education at the time of selection. She has since joined the faculty at Pennsylvania State University. Her research agenda includes explorations of the ways media, popular culture, language and technology are used to promulgate local and global linguistic violence against individuals and groups. Dr. Staples aspires to affect meaningful change in teacher preparation and education programs by demystifying linguistic violence, exposing its implications for global citizenship and American-ized ideals, and better equipping educators with theoretical and practical frameworks for understanding this phenomenon and acting against it from the classroom out.
Dr. Jennifer D. Turner is an Assistant Professor in Reading Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Her interests in internationalizing teacher education have emerged from her research and practice as a reading teacher educator in the Elementary Education program. As part of her work as a GATE Fellow, Dr. Turner has developed a graduate course on multicultural materials and instruction for K-12 readers that emphasizes localized and globalized conceptions of culture, language, and literacy. She is also conducting an investigation of how the course content and assignments shape students’ perspectives on and practices for teaching diverse readers.

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