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Submissions from 2024
Aspirational Mexican American Parenting in the Rural South: Multilingualism, Hard Work, and the Middle Class, Alma D. Stevenson and Scott A. Beck
Assessing The Fidelity Of School-level Professional Learning Community Implementation, William W. Thigpen II, Juliann Sergi McBrayer, Kathleen M. Crawford, Cordelia Zinskie, Monika Krah, and Summer Pannell
Submissions from 2023
Peeling Away the Taken-For-Grantedness of Research Subjectivities: Orienting to the Phenomenological, Melissa Freeman and E. Anthony Muhammad
“I CAN'T SAY IT”! Doodling to Emancipate Adolescents' Voices in a Transformative Mixed Methods Study of Covert Bullying in Jamaican High Schools, Ingrid Hunt-Anderson and Peggy Shannon-Baker
Collective obituary for Nel Noddings, Liz Jackson, D. R. Phillips, Susan Verducci, Lynda Stone, Barbara Stengel, Lynn Sargent De Jonghe, Cris Mayo, Michael S. Katz, and Robert L. Lake
Preservice Special Education Teachers’ Experience of a Math Methods Course: Examining the Development of Personal and Pedagogical Efficacy, Cynthia C. Massey and Edward Anthony Muhammad
The Concept of Alterity: Its Usage and Its Relevance for Critical Qualitative Researchers in the Era of Trump, E. Anthony Muhammad
Undergraduate Students’ Perception of Leadership Development Programs and Leadership Self-Efficacy, Benjamin Phillips, Juliann Sergi McBrayer, Brandon Hunt, Antonio Gutierrez de Blume, and Katherine Fallon
Problematizing Niceness: A Teacher Educators' Learning Community on Culturally Responsive Teaching, Michelle Reidel, Peggy Shannon-Baker, Courtney Toledo, Kathleen M. Crawford, Leslie Roberts, Heather M. Huling, and Delores D. Liston
Submissions from 2022
Art Integration and Identity: Empowering Bi/Multilingual High School Learners, Sahar Aghasafari, Kelli Bivins, E. Anthony Muhammad, and Brendan Nordgren
What Makes a Study Strategy Intervention Impactful? An Interview-Based Study, Anna C. Brady, Lauren C. Hensley, David M. Sovic, Amy E. Kulesza, Christopher A. Wolters, and Caroline A. Breitenberger
Learning in the Face of Digital Distractions: Empowering Instructors to Support Self-regulated Learning Within and Beyond the Classroom, Anna C. Brady, Yeo-eun Kim, and Jacqueline von Spiegel
Turning “I should be writing” into “We should be writing”: Accountability groups as a motivation regulation strategy, Anna C. Brady, Robin Sayers, Jacqueline von Spiegel, Yeo-eun Kim, and Kristin Henkaline
Self-regulation of Time: the Importance of Time Estimation Accuracy, Anna C. Brady, Christopher A. Wolters, and Shirley L. Yu
Examining General Education and Special Education Teacher Preparedness for Co-Teaching Students with Disabilities, Cindy Causey, Lina B. Soares, Catherine Howerter, and Peggy Shannon-Baker
Psychobiological, Clinical, and Sociocultural Factors That Influence Black Women Seeking Treatment for Infertility: A Mixed-methods Study, Morine Cebert-Gaitors, Peggy Shannon-Baker, Susan G. Silva, Samad Jahandideh, Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda, and Eleanor L. Stevenson
A Brief History of the First 10 Years of the Curriculum Studies Summer Collaborative, Daniel Chapman and Julie C. Garlen
Understanding and Reacting to the Digital Distraction Phenomenon in College Classrooms, Abraham E. Flanigan, Wayne Babchuk, and Jackie Hee-Young Kim
Individual and Institutional Productivity in Educational Psychology Journals from 2015 to 2021, Carlton J. Fong, Abraham E. Flanigan, Eric Hogan, Anna C. Brady, Marlynn Griffin, Cassandra Gonzales, Agustín J. García, Zohreh Fathi, and Daniel H. Robinson
Preventing “I Never Learned How to Study”: How Teachers Can Develop Students’ Effective Learning Strategies, Lauren C. Hensley, Yeo-eun Kim, Robin Sayers, and Anna C. Brady
An Autoethnographic Reflection of My Academic Privileges While Working with High School Interns, Eric Hogan
Changing My Language and Understanding: An Autoethnography of My Dumb-Upness, Eric Hogan
Should We “just Stick to the Facts”? The Benefit of Controversial Conversations in Classrooms, Elizabeth Kraatz, Jacqueline von Spiegel, Robin Sayers, and Anna C. Brady
The Effect of Flipped Instruction on Special Education Preservice Teachers' Perceptions, Cynthia C. Massey, Selcuk Dogan, E. Anthony Muhammad, Eric Hogan, Cindy N. Head, and Jackie HeeYoung Kim
Black Masculinity, Media Stereotyping, and Its Influence on Policing in the United States: A Functionalist Perspective, Jack S. Monell and E. Anthony Muhammad
Philosophical hermeneutics as an interpretive framework in the analysis of Colin Kaepernick’s NFL protest, E. Anthony Muhammad and Cynthia Thomas
Developing a Comprehensive Mixed Methods Evaluation to Address Contextual Complexities of a MOOC, Pamela Musoke, Antigoni Papadimitriou, Peggy A. Shannon-Baker, and Chihiro Tajima
State of the Methods: Leveraging Design Possibilities of Qualitatively Oriented Mixed Methods Research, Cheryl N. Poth and Peggy Shannon-Baker
Motivation to Read in the Middle Grades, Leslie Roberts
Memories × Dreams, Peggy Shannon-Baker
Philosophical Underpinnings of Mixed Methods Research in Education, Peggy Shannon-Baker
Virtual Special Issue on “Mixed Methods Designs, Integration, and Visual Practices in Educational Research”, Peggy Shannon-Baker
A Story of My Name: A Micro-memoir, Peggy A. Shannon-Baker
Chapter 20: Beyond Expanding an Acronym: Strategies for Supporting LGBTQ+ People in Schools, Peggy Shannon-Baker and Nikki DiGregorio
Integrating Arts-Based Approaches in Mixed Methods Research with Diverse Stakeholders, Peggy Shannon-Baker and Claudia Martinez
Integrating Art and Artistic Practices in Mixed Methods Research in Education, Lyric Smith and Peggy Shannon-Baker
“There Are No Emotions in Math”: How Teachers Approach Emotions in the Classroom, Meca Williams-Johnson, Dionne I. Cross, Ji Hong, Lori P. Aultman, Jennifer Osbon, and Paul A. Schutz
Submissions from 2021
The Effects of Graphic Organizer Completeness and Note-taking Medium on Computer-based Learning, Tiphaine Colliot, Kenneth A. Kiewra, Linlin Luo, Abraham E. Flanigan, Junrong Lu, Carrie Kennedy, and Sheldon Black
Managing Difficult Conversations Workshop, Lisa Costello, Nikki DiGregorio, Rochelle Bornett Lee, Alexandra J. Reyes, Peggy Shannon-Baker, Stacy W. Smallwood, and Clare Walsh
Characteristics of Rural STEM Clubs and Implications for Students with Disabilities, Karin M. Fisher, Peggy Shannon-Baker, Kelly Brooksher, and Kania Greer
Perspectives of Students With Disabilities and Their Parents on Influences and Barriers to Joining and Staying Extracurricular STEM Activities, Karin M. Fisher, Peggy Shannon-Baker, Kania A. Greer, and Barbara Serianni
Research, Vision, and Pieces of Advice, Abraham E. Flanigan
Initiation and Maintenance of Student-Instructor Rapport in Online Classes, Abraham E. Flanigan, Mete Akcaoglu, and Emily Ray
Curbing Student Digital Distraction With Non-Traditional Teaching Strategies, Abraham E. Flanigan and Jackie HeeYoung Kim
Integrating Video Evidence in Mixed Methods Research: Innovations, Benefits, and Challenges for Research Exploring How Beliefs Shape Actions, Tashane K. Haynes-Brown and Peggy Shannon-Baker
Using a Community Farmers’ Market to Engage Students From an Alternative School, Eric Hogan and Sean Forbes
Academic Social Capital of Students From an Alternative School: An Ego Network Perspective, Eric Hogan, Sean Forbes, and Carey Andrzejewski
Middle School Student Empowerment Through The Sun Is Also a Star: An American Library Association Collaborative Grant Initiative Exploring the Immigrant Experience, Anne Katz and Vivian Bynoe
Educational Psychology Early Career Award Winners: How Did They Do It?, Kenneth Kiewra, Linlin Luo, and Abraham E. Flanigan
Discussion to Support Literacy Learning, Jacquelynn A. Malloy and Leslie D. Roberts
Countering the "Phenomenology of Whiteness": The Nation of Islam's Phenomenology of Blackness, E. Anthony Muhammad
Entering the archives: Developing a topic, E. Anthony Muhammad
Psychology in a Complex World, J. A. Park, T. Hill, and Abraham E. Flanigan
Motivation and Self-Regulated Learning in Computer Science: Lessons Learned From a Multiyear Program of Classroom Research, Markeya S. Peteranetz, Leen-Kiat Soh, Duane F. Shell, and Abraham E. Flanigan
Matters of Life and Love: Some Preliminary Mappings of Womanist Pedagogical Futures, Sabrina N. Ross
Womanist Inquiry for Social Justice in Curriculum, Sabrina N. Ross
Centering Race in Mixed and Multi-Method Research on Implicit Bias: A Systematic Review, Peggy Shannon-Baker
The Palimpsest as an Arts-based Integration Strategy for Mixed Methods Research, Peggy Shannon-Baker
Chapter 116 Queering Mixed Methods Research, Peggy A. Shannon-Baker
Fridges, Peggy A. Shannon-Baker
State of I, Peggy A. Shannon-Baker
"It's Almost as if I Wrote This": Transnational Migrant Farmworkers Read "Their" Lives, Alma D. Stevenson and Scott Beck
A Culturally Responsive Literacy Approach to Develop Scientific Conceptual Knowledge through Creative Narratives, Alma D. Stevenson and Lacey D. Huffling
Revisiting family involvement: Reimagining involvement to tackle the long-term effects of COVID-19 together, Meca Williams-Johnson
Self-efficacy Insights From Public School Educator Turned Home Educator, Meca Williams-Johnson
Looking Toward the Future: The Educational Aspirations of Rural African American Students, Meca Williams-Johnson and Elise J. Cain
Submissions from 2020
Rethinking Social Inquiry in the Wake of Science Studies: Transdisciplinary Pursuits in Times of Climate Change, Information flows and Fading Democracies, Elizabeth de Freitas and John A. Weaver
Checking comprehension in online classes, Abraham E. Flanigan
Digital Distraction in the Classroom: Exploring Instructor Perceptions and Reactions, Abraham E. Flanigan and Wayne Babchuk
Impact of Digital Distraction on Lecture Note Taking and Student Learning, Abraham E. Flanigan and Scott Titsworth
Impact of Literacy Across Content on Middle School Students' Reading Comprehension in a Rural Context, Antonio P. Gutierrez de Blume, Anne Katz, and Jenna Bass
Elevating Student Voice: The Role and Importance of Literacy Coaches for K–12 Teachers, Anne Katz, Kaitlynn Cooper, JoEllen McCarthy, Bilal Polson, Kathy Smith, and Caitlin Spears
Rethinking Our Work as Literacy Educators: Cultivating Critical Thinking Skills among Graduate Students in an Online Learning Environment, Anne Katz and Sharryn Larsen Walker
An Integrative STEM NIH Grant: Designing Equitable Curriculum to Collaborate with Undergraduate Science Majors and Spark Connections, Anne Katz and Karla Sue Marriott
Conservative philanthropy and HBCUs: Historical Trends and the Current Landscape, E. Anthony Muhammad
Weaponizing Religion: A Document Analysis of the Religious Indoctrination of Slaves in Service of White Labor Elites, E. Anthony Muhammad
Policing and the Black Community: History, Reality and the Rudiments for Change, E. Anthony Muhammad and Jack Monell
Preventative Techniques to Curb Bullying, E. Ray and Abraham E. Flanigan
Preface: The Rural and the Radical: The Shadow of Progressive Politics in Forgotten Places and the Dangers of Caricature, William M. Reynolds
The Hell of Lies, Denial, and Distraction: Critical Environmental Pedagogy Through Popular Dystopic Films, William M. Reynolds
Series Editors’ Foreword: Make Friends with Chaos in Chaotic Times, William M. Reynolds and Bradley J. Porfilio
How to Turn Children Into Readers, Leslie D. Roberts
The Dialectic of Racial Justice: Maxine Greene’s Contributions to Morally Engaged and Racially Just Education Spaces, Sabrina N. Ross
Incorporating global perspectives in the Pre-K-12 classroom, Peggy Shannon-Baker
"Those who can’t hear must feel”: Confronting racism, privilege, and self with pre-service teachers, Peggy Shannon-Baker
Unlearning heteronormative discourse: Let’s talk about LGBTQI children in early childhood teacher education, Peggy Shannon-Baker
Parents’ want their voices to “matter”: Perspectives on school enrollment in a shrinking urban school district, Peggy Shannon-Baker, Bradley Porfilio, and Bobbie Plough
Influencing Professional Practice Through Academic Service Learning AS(L): Pre-Service Teachers Share Their Perceptions, Sharryn Walker and Anne Katz
2020 Notable Books For a Global Society: Booklist for Grades PreK–12 To Foster Empathy and Social Emotional Learning, Fran Wilson, Sandip LeeAnne Wilson, Mary Ellen Oslick, Junko Sakoi, Joyce Herbeck, Yvonne Siu-Runyan, Meredith Zepf, Ann DiGiacomo, Anne Katz, and Osha Smith
Submissions from 2019
Innovation in Preservice Teacher Preparation: Undergraduate Research in Special Education, Kymberly Harris, Meca Williams-Johnson, and Dana Sparkman
Constructing Arts-Based Literacy Practices through Kwame Alexander’s The Playbook, Anne Katz
Impact of Interdisciplinary STEM on Student Affect and Reasoning, Robert Mayes, Kent Allan Rittschof, and Bryon Jason Gallant
Critical Media Literacy in the Time of Lies, William M. Reynolds and Bradley Porfilio
Barbara Marinak: A.B. Herr Award – 2016, Leslie D. Roberts
Visual methods and representations in mixed methods (and) social network research: A discussion, Peggy Shannon-Baker and Jonathan C. Hilpert
Battling heteronormativity in teacher education: Reflections on a human development course from a teacher and student, Peggy Shannon-Baker and Ingrid Wagner
Latinas’ Heritage Language as a Source of Resiliency: Impact on Academic Achievement in STEM Fields, Alma D. Stevenson, Alejandro José Gallard Martínez, Katie Brkich, Belinda B. Flores, and Wesley Pitts
Curriculum SF (Speculative Fiction): Reflections on the Future Past of Curriculum Studies and Science Fiction, John A. Weaver
