Tag: Leadership Educational Psychology and Foundations
As with many associate professors, Teresa Wasonga in the Department of Leadership, Educational Psychology and Foundations in the College of Education leads a busy professional life, with a full slate of teaching, research and service commitments. During the spring and summer of 2011, she traveled to her native country of Kenya to conduct research for...
The National Latino Education Institute (NLEI) has recognized Rosita Lopez as its Hispanic Hero. Lopez is an associate professor in the Department of Leadership, Educational Psychology & Foundations in the NIU College of Education and chair of the board of directors of Casa Central, one of the largest Hispanic non-profit organizations in the United States....
NIU Students for Sensible Drug Policy will host a lecture on psychedelics at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 18, in Holmes Student Center Room 405. Thomas Roberts, professor emeritus in the NIU College of Education and a world-renowned researcher of psychedelics, is the guest speaker. Roberts taught the “Foundations of Psychedelic Studies” course in the Department...
Earl Smith, professor of sociology and director of American Ethnic Studies at Wake Forest University, will talk at NIU at 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 10. Smith will speak on “Athletic Industrial Complex: Conference Realignment and Race” at the Yordon Center. This lecture will include a critical analysis of recent NCAA conference realignment, and will focus...
As high school science teachers return to their classrooms to begin a new school year, scholars from NIU are urging them to talk more to girls. Otherwise, the College of Education researchers warn, the United States will struggle to meet its scientific and technological ambitions for the future. Science teachers spend 39 percent more class...
Returning students will be met with a number of changes on campus this fall, including the change of the name of the College of Education’s Department of Teaching and Learning (TLRN) to the Department of Special and Early Education (SEED). Along with the name change, the College of Education has realigned programs within three departments:...
NIU will host a two-day international workshop early next month examining the cultural models of nature and the environment held by primary food producers worldwide. Department of Anthropology professor Giovanni Bennardo, organizer of the event, said results of the workshop will be of interest to area scholars, policymakers and individuals who are engaged in the...
As students settle in for their annual autumn return to classrooms, the eternal challenge for teachers is to cultivate the most effective learning environment possible. Laurence McMillin knew this. McMillin taught English at the private Webb School in Claremont, Calif., where he assigned “Oedipus Rex,” “Faust,” “Don Quixote” and other provocative fiction as well as...
