Education

Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor

Margaret (Greta) A. Gibson
Immigrants and education; minority status and schooling; community-school relationships; ethnicity, class, gender, and educational processes; qualitative research methods

Rodney Ogawa
Educational leadership, educational reform, and the impact of social institutions on the structure of school organization

Art Pearl, Emeritus

David Swanger
Aesthetic education, educational philosophy, creative writing, poetry, poetics, literary theory

Roland G. Tharp, Emeritus

C. Gordon Wells
Language and literacy development, analysis of discourse in learning and teaching, inquiry-oriented curriculum; socio-cultural theory and education, collaborative action research

Associate Professor

June A. Gordon
Urban education of working-class and ethnic minority students in East Asia, Britain and the U.S. and related issues in teacher education

Judit Moschkovich
Mathematics learning and teaching, student conceptions of linear functions, discourse in mathematics and science classrooms, language minority mathematics education, informal mathematics learning

Lucinda Pease-Alvarez
Language and literacy development, language-minority education, bilingualism, informal learning

Judith Scott
Literacy and language learning; academic language; reading, writing, vocabulary development; teachers’ professional development through collaboration and inquiry

Trish Stoddart
Teacher education, science education, educational reform

Kip Téllez
Preparation of teachers for linguistic and cultural diversity, second language learning, studies of the school curriculum, educational assessment

Assistant Professor

Julia Aguirre
Mathematics teaching and learning with an emphasis on teacher cognition, school organization and culture, mathematics literacy, equity issues in mathematics educational reform

Doris Ash
Informal science learning, teacher professional development, science discourse in and out of the classroom

Lora Bartlett

George Bunch
Language and education in linguistically diverse settings, preparation of teachers for linguistic diversity, langauge policy, and bilingualism

Brad Olsen
Teacher development (with emphasis on knowledge and identity), English education, and sociolinguistics

Jerome Shaw
Scientific inquiry, specifically examining the science education experiences of English language learners and their teachers. This includes examining ways in which assessments in English measure content knowledge versus language proficiency.

Director of New Teacher Center

Ellen R. Moir
Bilingual education, English language development, new teacher development and support

Professor

Catherine R. Cooper (Psychology)
Cultural perspectives on child and adolescent development; linkages among families, peers, schools, and work; issues of diversity, ethnicity, and gender in identity; research, practice, and policy in university outreach programs; linking qualitative and quantitative research

Bruce N. Cooperstein (Mathematics)
Group theory; combinatorics, particularly, Chevalley groups and their associated geometries; environmental economics; theories of value

Barbara Rogoff (Psychology)
Human development in sociocultural activity; informal and formal arrangements for learning; adult/child and peer communication in families and schools in diverse cultural communities; learning through observation; varying forms of participation in problem solving; cognitive development, especially problem solving, planning, and attention

Senior Lecturer

Donald L. Rothman (Writing)
Director, Central California Writing Project; literacy education and democracy; UC/K–12 partnerships; writing, persuasion, and nonviolence; writing pedagogy; connections between beauty and justice