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in brief
Faculty
Anne Cunningham Anne Cunningham has received a major grant from the Institute of Educational Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education. The grant will fund her “Longitudinal Study of the Effectiveness of a Pre-K Multisensory Literacy Curriculum, Teacher Experience, and Professional Development on Children’s Learning Outcomes.” Funded from 2003–2007, the award is for $2.3 million.
“The study examines the growth of literacy and language in preschool age children living in poverty,” Cunningham said, “and how different learning environments and curricula may influence young children’s development in these domains. We’ll also investigate how different forms of professional development for early childhood educators may influence their beliefs, attitudes, and pedagogy in the teaching of literacy to young children.”
Sarah Warshauer Freedman Sarah Warshauer Freedman has co-edited Bakhtinian Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Learning with Arnetha Ball. The book is coming out this fall from Cambridge University Press. It includes an article co-authored by Freedman. Freedman’s recent work also includes studying the role of education in societies recovering from genocide. She co-authored an article on the subject, “Public Education as a Tool for Social Reconstruction: Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia,” which will appear this fall in the book Justice in the Balance: Rebuilding Communities in the Aftermath of Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing.
Andrew Furco Ingrid Seyer-Ochi Andrew Furco and Ingrid Seyer-Ochi were among thirteen campus faculty awarded this year’s Mellon Faculty Fellowships on Undergraduate Research. The Mellon Library/Faculty Fellows for Undergraduate Research Planning and Pilot Project is co-funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Each of the thirteen campus faculty from a wide range of disciplines received a stipend and other direct support to redesign an existing course or create a new one, incorporating research assignments or experiences into undergraduate education and requiring use of the Library’s extensive resources.
Michael Ranney performing marriage ceremony for Cirila Howard Curley and Morgan Curley Michael Ranney performed a marriage ceremony for two of his recent students, MACSME program graduates Morgan Curley and Cirila Howard Curley. The marriage took place in San Diego on August 3. The couple became engaged while working on the Reasoning with Numbers research project with Ranney and they asked him to officiate at their ceremony. To perform the wedding Ranney had to become a minister of the Universal Life Church. The newlyweds are now both teaching in the Hayward Unified School District.
Students
Marina Aminy Marina Aminy, a doctoral student in Language and Literacy, Society and Culture, has received a Spencer Dissertation Fellowship for Research Related to Education. These $20,000 fellowships are given to a mere six percent of those who apply. Aminy’s dissertation is on “Constructing the Moral Identity: Literacy Practices and Language Socialization in a Muslim Community.”
Andrea Dyrness, standing, with Madres Unidas, showing a video clip during their presentation at a CPEPR Conference on February 1, 2002 Andrea Dyrness, who is working toward a Ph.D. in the Social and Cultural Studies program, has produced a video entitled Madres Unidas: Parents Researching for Social Change. The video tells the story of five immigrant mothers in Oakland who got involved in starting a new small school for their children, and later became researchers and videographers to document their journey. Madres Unidas investigates parents participating in school reform through the eyes of parent researchers, and reveals important lessons for teachers and reform professionals about the barriers to community involvement. The video has been adopted for classroom use at Hayward State University. It’s available from the UC Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning, which can be contacted by e-mail at ucmedia@ucxonline.berkeley.edu, or on the web at http://ucmedia.berkeley.edu.
Julia Menard-Warwick Julia Menard-Warwick, a Ph.D. student in Language and Literacy, Society and Culture, gave presentations based on her dissertation research at two recent conferences. In September she presented a paper entitled “Life Narratives of Immigrant Women in California” at the Peace as a Global Language Conference in Tokyo. In October she presented a paper, “Language-Learning Narratives from Latina Immigrant ESL students” at the Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), in Tucson. Recent LLSC alumna Paige Daniel Ware also presented a paper at the same conference based on her dissertation.
Susan Shepler Susan Shepler, a doctoral student in the Social and Cultural Studies program, has received two dissertation fellowships. Her thesis is on children who were involved in the civil war in Sierra Leone and how they are being educated to return to peacetime society. One fellowship is from the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, a UCSD-based institution. The other is from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation in New York. Shepler will be presenting her research this fall at meetings of the American Anthropological Association and the African Studies Association.
Christopher Wu with Karen Kjølby (administrator at RUC), Karolina, and fiancée Renata Christopher Wu, a Ph.D. student in the EMST program in Cognition and Development, spent last summer in Denmark at Roskilde University (RUC) as a visiting Ph.D. student at the Graduate School of Lifelong Learning. While there he attended a two-day international symposium on Gender Perspectives on Lifelong Learning. He also participated in a Ph.D. panel presenting perspectives of students from four nations. He writes: “I plan to return to RUC in the spring to continue work on my dissertation. Having made three previous visits in 1998–2001, I have enjoyed learning from my friends and colleagues from around Europe. My fiancée Renata, her six-year-old daughter, Karolina, and I really enjoyed living in both Roskilde (the original capital of Denmark, about 40 kilometers outside of Copenhagen) as well as living in a kartofelrækerne (“potato row”). These potato rows were originally working-class housing built circa 1875. They are three-story brick townhouses which are all lined up in a row on small streets, hence their name.”
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