School of EducationSOE Research Colloquium
During AY 2011-2012 the School of Education will host a research colloquium series. The SOE Research Colloquium will showcase selected research and scholarship activities of UM-Dearborn faculty and invited scholars from outside the institution. Faculty and students from across the UM-Dearborn campus are invited to attend, and we welcome the attendance and participation of interested education professionals from southeast Michigan
SOE Research Colloquium presentations for Winter 2012 will be held on selected Thursday afternoons once per month from 4:30 - 6:00 p.m. in the School of Education conference room (252 FCS). Presentations will be approximately one hour in length, with an additional 30 minutes allotted for students and faculty to have informal conversation with the speaker(s). Refreshments will be served.
Winter 2012 Colloquia
January 26, 2012
Karen Thomas-Brown (SOE Assistant Professor, Social Studies)
Topic: Teaching for geographic literacy: After-school geography club
February 23, 2012
John Branch (Lecturer of Marketing, Stephen M. Ross School of Business & Faculty Associate, Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies U of M, Ann Arbor)
Topic: Analogical Learning in Higher Education
March 15, 2012
Seong Hong (SOE Associate Professor, Early Childhood Education)
Topic: Transdisciplinary research and practice between Oakwood Center for Exceptional Families and Early Childhood Education Center
April 12, 2012
Edward Silver (SOE Dean & William A. Brownell Collegiate Professor of Education, U of M, Ann Arbor)
Crystal Lunsford (SOE Lecturer & Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Education, U of M, Ann Arbor)
Topic: Making Scholarship Useable in Education: Examining the role of Practitioner Journals
Fall 2011 Colloquia
September 28, 2011
Mesut Duran (SOE Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Research) &
Robert Fraser (Associate Director for Academic Resources, Mardigian Library)
Topic: Online academic (dis)honesty [e-(dis)honesty] at UM-Dearborn
October 19, 2011
Martha Adler (SOE Associate Professor)
Topic: Helping teachers use “sheltered instruction” with English language learners
November 9, 2011
Mary Schleppegrell (Professor of Education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Annemarie Palincsar (Jean and Charles Walgreen Professor of Reading and Literacy & Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Topic: Using functional grammar to assist teachers of English language learners
December 7, 2011
Peter Northouse (Professor of Communication, Western Michigan University)
Topic: Current Trends in Leadership Research: Implications for Education