Preparing effective teachers, leaders, and researchers; conducting and applying research; and offering accessible local and global outreach.
The Department of Education at Cornell University emphasizes field-based study in educational settings where social, economic, and political pressures interact to help shape policies and practices. The importance of the social and psychological context of learning and an overarching interest in field-based teaching and research are common to faculty members and staff whether they are teaching graduate students in Ithaca, conducting an outreach program in Syracuse, or leading a community-education project in Nigeria.
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Professor Scott Peters has been named as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement
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Professor Scott Peters has signed a contract from Michigan State University press to publish his next book, Critic and Leader as Well as Servant: Higher Education's Roles in the Public Work of Democracy
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Professor Scott Peters will be giving the opening keynote lecture in Sustaining the Earth: Public Scholarship in the Arts and Humanities
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LEAD New York's Class 12 is headed to Spain in February 2009
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Kimberly L. Niewolny, PhD '07, is this year's recipient of the Marvin and Ruth Glock Research Award for her outstanding doctoral thesis research
PhD candidate Robert J. Humphrey was awarded with the 2008 Julian E. Butterworth Doctoral Research Award. For a full list of this year's award winners, click here
Are New Yorkers Satisfied with the Public Education in their Communities? John Sipple and Robin Blakely present their findings in the January 2008 edition of The Rural New York Minute
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Professor John Sipple, Lisa McCabe, and Judith Ross-Berstein co-authored The Capacity of Early Childhood Care & Education in Rural New York State
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Professor Barbara Crawford and doctoral students Robert Humphrey and Xenia Meyer are designing innovative curricula to help diverse students learn about evolution and science inquiry by using authentic fossil samples
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Professor Deborah Trumbull and the Department of Physics' Rob Thorne have spearheaded successful efforts to obtain funding from the PhysTEC consortium
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September 5
Department Meeting
Faculty, staff, and students welcome
Room 119 Kennedy, 1:00-2:00 p.m.
September 12
Department Picnic
All are welcome!
Sign-up sheets are located outside of KN 428
Stewart Park, 5:00 p.m.
Barbara A Crawford
Associate Professor
Overview
With her background in laboratory research, two science degrees, and nearly two decades as a secondary science teacher, Barbara Crawford is one of the few researchers addressing the inconsistency between the nature of scientific inquiry and the classroom teaching of scientific inquiry, a critical... Read More
Scott Campbell
I became interested in how relative levels of access to pre-engineering experiences - particularly, FIRST Robotics - positions students from specific backgrounds for success or failure as novice engineers
Mariana Cruz
My areas of interest at this time are: Adult learning theory, feminist theory, critical pedagogies, cultural studies, postcolonial theory, and multicultural education.