Research Interests Department of Administration Leadership and Technology

• Gary Anderson - Professor of Educational Administration
  • School reform, educational leadership and the ""new"" economy
  • School micropolitics
  • Organizational theory
  • Critical theories of class, race, and gender
  • The growing militarization and criminalization of youth in schools
  • Research methodolgies, particularly participatory action research, discourse analysis, and ethnography
• Terry Astuto - Professor of Educational Administration
  • Alternative ways of thinking about school organizations
• Mary E. Driscoll - Associate Professor of Educational Administration; Department Chair
  • Connections between schools and their communities
  • Effects of selected policies on the education of students displaced by the 2005 hurricanes
  • How communities serve as contexts for student learning
• Colleen Larson - Associate Professor of Educational Administration
  • Philosophy of social science
  • Methodologies of interpretive inquiry
  • Sociopolitical theories of equity underpinning social and institutional reform in industrialized and developing nations
  • Politics of multiculturalism
• Teboho Moja - Clinical Professor of Higher Education
  • Higher Education Policy Research
  • Comparative Higher Education
  • African Higher Education
  • Globalization and Higher Education Reform
• Bridget N. O'Connor - Professor of Higher Education and Business Education
  • corporate/university partnerships
  • transfer of learning
  • workplace learning

   

• Jan L. Plass - Associate Professor of Educational Communication and Technology
  • Simulations and Games for Education
  • Information Architecture, Information Design, and Interaction Design for Educational Environments
  • Cognitive Science, Learning Sciences, Educational Technologies
  • Cognitive and Emotional Factors in Educational Design
    
  • Cognitive Load Theory
  • Science Learning
  • Second-Language Acquisition
    
• Richard Richardson - Professor of Higher Education
  • Policy
  • Government Policy and Higher Education Performance
  • Systemic Change in Higher Education
  • Quality Indicators for Higher Education
• Francine Belle Shuchat Shaw - Associate Professor of Educational Communication and Technology
  • Theories of Learning and Instruction
  • Educational/Instructional Design
  • Design of Educational Video and Multimedia Environments
  • Learning With Television
  • History and Practice of Progressive and Constructivist Education
• Frances Stage - Professor of Higher Education
  • College student learning, participation in mathematics and science careers
  • Student Preparation and Access to College
• Robert Teranishi - Associate Professor of Higher Education
  • Higher education and social mobility
  • Access and participation in higher education
  • Racial segregation and school effects