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Joy Oslund

"The accessibility of faculty members as well as the many opportunities to become involved in communities of learners have greatly added to my learning experience here at MSU."

— Joy Oslund

Mark Low
Graduate student whose research interests include analyzing how competing visions of schooling influence a) educational practice and b) the relationship between schools and society.
David Grueber
Graduate student whose research interests include the effects of inquiry-based curriculum materials on student learning.
Joy Oslund
Graduate student whose research interests include elementary mathematics teaching, teacher beliefs and knowledge, and teaching mathematics for social justice.
Juliet Halladay
Graduate student whose research interests include elementary school literacy, primarily classroom instruction and student learning.
Marjorie Cooper
Graduate student whose research interests include identifying what constitutes learning to teach for social justice with a particular focus on critical literacy.
Khalel Hakim
Graduate student whose research interests include teacher practice, primarily in racially and ethnically
diverse classrooms.

Kennedy Onyancha
Graduate student whose research interests include scientific literacy and how to make science more relevant to everyday life.

Valencia Moses
Graduate student whose research interests include science education and policy.

Won Pyo Hong
Graduate student whose research interests are in curriculum theory and policy, global education, and social studies education. 

Adie Slaton
Graduate student whose research interests include focusing on ways to strengthen teacher preparation for science teaching candidates planning to teach in urban, under-resourced schools.

Kelly Reffitt
Graduate student whose research interests include focusing on elementary level literacy instruction including both reading and writing, in general.

David McLaughlin
Graduate student whose research interests include issues of access to educational opportunities, especially for minority populations in developing nations, as well as international comparisons of science curricular design and teaching.

Viola Manokore
Graduate student whose research interests is in gender issues with reference to science and technology literacy. 

Hosun Kang
Graduate student whose research interests focus on factors that influence the quality of science teachers and science teaching as well as the learning and development of science teachers.