posted April 3, 2009
International Travel Fund Grants Awarded
The Spring semester international travel award competition attracted a large number of faculty and graduate student proposals of high quality. The award winners are:
Dr. Peter Afflerbach (EDCI) will participate in the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), to be held in Amsterdam, NL. He will present a research paper as part of a symposium entitled “Multi-method approaches in research on self-regulated learning” with Dr. Hubertina Thillmann of Ruhr University, Germany, Dr. Joachim Wirth of Ruhr University, Germany, Dr. Philip H. Winne of Simon Fraser University, Canada, and Dr. Marcel Veenman of University of Leiden, The Netherlands. This work emanates from Dr. Afflerbach’s professional relationships with scholars in Europe who share an interest in metacognition and the application of metacognition in classrooms. He will also continue work in leadership positions he holds in this international association.
Jennifer Bacon (EDCI) will give an invited presentation of her work on gender studies and special needs at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia. Her research is designed to explore and ultimately address the literacy needs and experiences of African American and Ethiopian adolescent girls through the use of poetry, and her research will be conducted jointly with the Dean of Education at Addis Ababa University.
Dr. Natasha Cabrera (EDHD) will engage in a collaborative research program and present a talk at a two-week program with Dr. Michael Lamb in the Faculty of Politics, Psychology, Sociology, and International Studies, in Cambridge, University. Dr. Lamb is a renowned scholar who specializes in the study of social and emotional development, especially in infancy and early childhood; the determinants and consequences of adaptive and maladaptive parental behavior, and applied developmental psychology. The program advance both Dr. Cabrera’s own research as well as promote international connections for the department and the College.
Candise Chen, (EDHD) will conduct research in China to examine the development of tone sensitivity in young Chinese children and its influence on their literacy acquisition. This study will take place in the summer of 2009 in Beijing, China. The study is a cross-cultural collaboration project with researchers from the U.S. and researchers from China. Dr. Shu from Beijing Normal University has studied the influence of tone awareness on monolingual Chinese children while Dr. Min Wang has studied the same topic but with Chinese-English bilingual children.
Summer Clark (EDCI) will present her research study, Exploring the Influence of Teacher Educators' Diverse Identities and Structural Factors on Student Learning in a Diversity Course, to an international audience committed to feminist scholarship, “Challenging education: Feminist and anti-oppressive strategies in teaching and learning: The first Nordic conference on feminist pedagogies” in Upsalla, Sweden this June.
Dr. Nathan Fox (EDHD) will engage in a series of collaborative research and teaching activities at the invitation of Zhejiang University in Hongzhou China. He as been invited by the Department of Psychology to set up a collaboration with their Infant laboratory and his own laboratory, the Child Development Lab here at UMCP. He will be traveling there this summer and will be giving a set of lectures as well as establishing a collaboration that may involve having other students come to his laboratory and having students from UMCP go to China.
Dr. Melanie Killen (EDHD) will travel to the U.K. (Canterbury and London) and Switzerland (Zurich) to work on two collaborative international research projects designed to understand processes related to social exclusion in school settings. She will be working with Dr. Abrams and Dr. Rutland at the University of Kent at Canterbury on our collaborative research on social reasoning and group dynamics; and she will then travel to Zurich to the Jacobs Foundation where she has been invited to give a talk entitled: “Social Reasoning about Exclusion” and to work with Dr. Tina Malti on a project on peer exclusion in the Zurich schools.
Chien-Yu Lin (EDCI) will present her paper, which has been accepted by the conference, Independent Learning Association Conference (ILAC) 2009, to be held from June 3rd to June 5th in 2009 at Hong Kong in China. The title of the paper is “Autonomous learners in digital realms: Exploring digital language learning strategies”. This paper aims to critically review existing literature regarding how independent learners use digital language learning strategies (DLLS) to facilitate their learning.
Dr. Nelly Stromquist (EDHI) will present two papers at conferences in Europe this summer. The first, to take place in Athens on 22-26 June, is entitled “Intercultural Education: Paideai, Polity, Demoi.” It is being organized jointly by the International Association for Intercultural Education and the Hellenic Migration Policy Institute. Her paper is titled “Immigrants and the Educational Experience in the US.” The second is in Tryavna, Bulgaria, on 29 June-3 July, and is organized by the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society. Her presentation is entitled “Higher Education and the Search for Excellence: US Strategies.”
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