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In her 32 plus years as an educator, Dr. Wanda J. Blanchett has taught and inspired countless people, from her early career to her current position as Dean of Rutgers Graduate School of Education. Dr. Blanchett has learned her own lessons too.
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Advancing Early Education: The Importance of Dual Language Learning
A desire to change the educational landscape began during Dr. Alexandra Figueras-Daniel’s freshman year of undergrad. She was drawn to teach when she was exposed to notable research in early…
To our new and returning GSE students: A message from Dean Christopher Span
Rutgers Graduate School of Education (GSE) invites you to watch a brief video from Dean Christopher Span as he welcomes new and returning GSE students to the 2024-2025 academic year.
GSE Alum Helps Students Find Their Voice in the Classroom
Ashley Ellis was a shy student. But a teacher helped her find her voice. “When a teacher sat with me and got to know my interests, it made it easier…
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Dissertation Proposal Announcement Ph.D. in Education Program: Megumi Asada “Teaching logic for social justice: Connecting advanced mathematics and logic to an abolitionist perspective”
Mathematics and mathematics education are implicated in broader societal inequities. These inequities can manifest in racialized and gendered classroom experiences and are perpetuated by some of the very practices students are encouraged to employ. While some scholarship in the K-12 context describes possibilities for the use of mathematics toward social justice, this area has been…
Learning Sciences Lunch and Learn with Dr. Nicole Barry “Living our Stories: Indigenous Storywork and Youth Resilience in the Face of Uncertain Climate Futures”
Connect with colleagues during this in-person presentation at the GSE (Room 124). Pizza will be provided! Can’t attend in person? Join us remotely via Zoom! In this talk, I explore the power of Indigenous Storywork. This article follows a particular Indigenous story and examines the way that this story helped cultivate youth wellbeing and kinship relations…
Dissertation Proposal Announcement Ed.D. Program: Yaruby Petit-Frere “Intercultural Friendships Between US-Born (American) and International Students: What are Americans Learning From These Relationships?”
As global interdependence increases, higher education institutions (HEIs) increasingly focus on preparing students for diverse workplaces and global challenges through comprehensive internationalization strategies (Mansilla & Jackson, 2022; Qiang, 2003). These strategies typically include outward mobility, such as study abroad programs, and internationalization at home (IaH), which involves integrating international students into campus life and promoting…
Dissertation Proposal Announcement Ed.D. Program: Ildiko Koczan “Towards Equity Through IT Education: A Qualitative Study of Gender Minority IT Students’ Experiences”
IT (Information Technology) professionals are critical assets in the current US knowledge-based technological economy (Eisenhart, et al., 2015) as they play an important role in creating technology that is consequential across multiple dimensions of the human experience (Rodriguez & Lehman, 2018). Creating technology that can serve our diverse society equitably requires diverse groups of people…