Park presents at the NAEYC conference

Sungok Reina Park, the School of Teaching and Learning, is presenting her recent study at NAEYC conference in Washington D.C., November 14-17. This study entitled “Becoming More Responsive to Children from Diverse Cultural Backgrounds” discusses new perspectives on teachers’ dispositions and how university teacher educators can support teacher candidates in becoming more responsive to culturally and linguistically diverse children.

Glessner, Johnson, Parenteau present at national conference

Marci Glessner, Shirley Johnson and Danielle Parenteau attended and presented at the national conference of the Teacher Education Division (TED) of Council for Exceptional Children in Las, Vegas, November 6-9, 2018. Glessner and Parenteau: Beyond the Label: Using Literature to Inform College Students’ Perceptions of People with Disability Glessner and Parenteau: Doing More with Less: Right-sizing Undergraduate and Graduate Special Education Curriculum (bit.ly/MSUMRight-Sizing) Johnson and […]

Tanzania Study Tour information meetings

Thursday Nov. 1 | 12-1 p.m. | Lommen 91 Thursday, Nov. 1 | 5-6 p.m. | King Hall 115 Come find out what we’ll be doing in this unique immersive, experiential educational opportunity that will focus on the challenges of delivering basic social services — healthcare and education — to the diverse population of this rapidly developing nation. ANTH 490/STL […]

Kupferman presents paper at Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education conference

David Kupferman, School of Teaching and Learning, presented a paper at the Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education (RECE) conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, in October. His paper, titled “Undead Dummies and Killer Dolls: The Inequality of Evil in Childhood,” focuses on how society produces children as monstrous through depictions of killer dolls, killer clowns, and ventriloquist dummies. The paper will be included […]