Experts Directory: Education: General Educational Issues
Susan Belgrad
Department of Elementary Education
work: (818) 677-4901
email:听susan.belgrad@csun.edu
- Engaged learning
- Brain compatible learning
- Cooperative learning
- Reflective practice portfolios
- Authentic assessment
- Student voice in assessment/portfolio conferences
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Sandra B. Chong
Department of Elementary Education
work: (818) 677-2533
email:听sandra.b.chong@csun.edu
Also speaks: Korean
- Literacy instruction in elementary school grades K鈥�8
- English-as-a-second-language instruction and methods for K鈥�16 and SDAIE
- Bilingual (Korean/English) instruction and methods for K鈥�8
- Classroom management
- Credential and master鈥檚 program advisement
- Supervision of student teachers
- Home literacy practices and second language acquisition
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Ileana Costea
Department of Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Management
work: (818) 677-2167
email:听icostea@csun.edu
Also speaks: French, Romanian
- Education in Romania
- Education and multiculturalism
- Artificial intelligence
- Expert systems
- Decision analysis
- Computer Aided Design (CAD)
- Web collaboration
- Distance education
- Interactive computer graphics
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Cynthia G. Desrochers
Department of Elementary Education听
work: (818) 677-7892 / 2621
email:听cynthia.desrochers@csun.edu
- Effective instruction and assessment K鈥�16
- Cooperative (group) learning K鈥�16
- Teaching strategies in K鈥�16
- Peer coaching and supervision K鈥�16
- Active learning in K鈥�16
- Classroom assessment techniques in K鈥�16
- The writing process
- Success for college freshmen
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Jennifer Kalfsbeek
The Tseng College听
Private Sector Programs
work: (818) 677-5943
email:
Also speaks: Spanish
- Online learning
- Adult education
- Workforce education
- Social justice/inequality
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Kristyan Kouri
Department of Gender and Women鈥檚 Studies
work: (818) 677-5018
email:听kristyan.m.kouri@csun.edu
- Education
- Gender
- Race
- Family
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Lauren McDonald
Department of Sociology
work: (818) 677-4267
email:听lauren.mcdonald@csun.edu
- Education policy
- Think tanks
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David L. Moguel
Department of Secondary Education
work: (818) 677-4010
email:听david.l.moguel@csun.edu
Also speaks: Spanish
- Teacher education
- Bilingual education and education of immigrant students
- Latino/Hispanic population history, culture and education
- Service learning
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Theresa Monta帽o
Department of Chicana/o Studies
work: (818) 677-6801
email:听theresa.montano@csun.eduor
Also speaks: Spanish
- Public education
- Teachers鈥� unions
- Privatization of public education
- Education in Los Angeles
- Bilingual education/duel immersion
- California politics
- Chicana/o studies
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Wendy Murawski
Department of Special Education
Executive Director &听Eisner Endowed Chair, Center for Teaching and Learning
work: (818) 677-7037 /听2596
email:听wendy.murawski@csun.edu
Also speaks: German
- Collaborative teaching
- Co-teaching
- Learning disabilities
- Team teaching
- Staff development for teachers
- Inclusive education for students with mild/moderate disabilities
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Ana S谩nchez-Mu帽oz
Department of Chicana/o Studies
work: (818) 677-2734
email:听ana.sanchezmunoz@csun.edu
Also speaks: Spanish
- Language variation and change
- Sociolinguistics
- Bilingualism and situations of language contact, especially Spanish in the United States
- Language acquisition, specifically in teaching Spanish as a heritage language
- How schooling in English contributes to the loss/attrition of a heritage language
- Author: 鈥淪panish as a Heritage Language in the United States: A Study of Speakers鈥� Register Variation鈥�
- Co-author: 鈥淟earning English/Learning America: Latino and Asian American Voices鈥�
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James F. 鈥淛ack鈥� Solomon
Department of English
work: (818) 677-0906 / 3431
email:听james.solomon@csun.edu
- Semantics
- History of literary criticism
- Literary theory
- Cultural studies and criticism
- Popular culture
- Educational politics
- California issues
- Author: 鈥淭he Signs of Our Times; Signs of Life in the USA鈥� and 鈥淐alifornia Dreams and Realities鈥�
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W. David Wakefield
Department of Child and Adolescent Development
work: (818) 677-5926
email:听david.wakefield@csun.edu
- Ethnic and racial socialization of minority youth
- Children and teens鈥� understanding of race and ethnicity
- Minority adolescents鈥� experience with racism and discrimination
- Bridging the achievement gap between ethnic minority and white students
- Adolescent peer relationships (friendships)
- Adolescent/young adult risk taking behavior
- Bullying
- Childhood aggression
- First-generation college students pursuing graduate/professional degrees
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Connie White
Department of Elementary Education
work: (818) 677-7394
email:听connie.white@csun.edu
- Literacy reading and writing
- Critical literacy
- Gender and education
- New Literacy Studies
- Family literacy
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