UF scholars out in force at national education research meeting

 

Posted May 3, 2010

For years, the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association has been a hotbed of new, research-based ideas about teaching, teacher preparation and leadership, and education reform. This year's meeting—held April 30 through May 4 in Denver—focused on the theme of “Understanding Complex Ecologies in a Changing World.” As always, UF education faculty and graduate students were a major presence in the program.

Forty-two COE faculty members, and a like-sized contingent of graduate students, presented or participated in some 70 presentations, panel discussions and AERA business meetings. The UF presentations included hot education topics such as: promoting math and science achievement in pre-schoolers, predicting classroom aggression, lessons learned from award-winning teachers, technology as an agent of change, reshaping the education doctorate, closing the learning gap between races, and the vanishing Latino male in higher education.

To view or print out a complete list of presentations by COE faculty and students, in PDF format, click here.

COE faculty members who were particularly busy included Walter Leite, who participated in seven presentations or discussions, Cathy Cavanaugh (five posted sessions), and Mirka Koro-Ljungberg, Stephen Pape and Dorene Ross who participated in four presentations. Ten other UF faculty members each participated in three sessions.

More than 12,000 education scholars attended the conference. The complete AERA annual meeting program, entailing more than 2,000 sessions, is available online in a searchable format at www.aera.net.

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Writer: Larry Lansford, COE News & Communications, llansford@coe.ufl.edu