Expertise

I teach undergraduate and graduate courses in Early Childhood Education and Currulum Studies. I have two areas of research. The first line of research examines the moral dimensions of teaching in which I have been collaborating with Bill Johnston. A second line of research, most recently, is examining the implications of the Capabilities Approach as outlined by Sen and Nussbaum, for Early Childhood Education.

Communities
Education, Curriculum and Instruction
Degrees
PhD, Georgia State University, Early Childhood Education, 1986
MS, Purdue University, Child Development, 1976
BA, University of Dayton, Psychology, 1974
Keywords
cultural anthropology child psychology day care qualitative methods (social sciences) language acquisition semantics sociology of language language arts sociology education values or moral education curriculum development classroom instruction literacy elementary education early childhood education minority education