Title(s): Associate Professor

Education: Ed.D., Columbia University

Affiliations:

American Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators
American Educational Research Association
Association for Childhood Education International
National Association for the Education of Young Children

Research interests:

It is an exciting time to be in early childhood education as there are many ideas and new practices emerging. My work centers around how early childhood educators might improve their practices to achieve educational equity for all students in their classrooms. To this end I am interested in using research to reconceptualize the early childhood knowledge base away from a developmental focus to one that incorporates multiple theoretical perspectives such as teacher knowledge, critical, feminist and postmodern theories.

Recent publications:

 Ryan, S. (in press). Message in a model: teachers' responses to a court ordered mandate for curriculum reform. Educational Policy.

Ryan, S., & Grieshaber, S.  (in press). Shifting from developmental to postmodern theories in early childhood teacher education. Journal of Teacher Education.

Ryan, S., & Hornbeck, A. (in press). Mentoring for quality improvment: A case study of a mentor tecaher in the reform process. Journal of Research on Childhood Education.

Ryan, S., Hornbeck, A., & Frede, E. (in press). Mentoring for change: A time use study of teacher consultants in preschool reform. Early Childhood Research and Practice.

Genishi, C., Ryan, S., Ochsner, M., and Yarnall, M. (2001). Teaching in early childhood education. In V. Richardson (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Teaching, (4th ed.). Washington DC: American Educational Research Association.