Faculty kudos: Honors and recognition for Ardoin, Jones, deMarrais
Ardoin becomes president-elect of school psychology society
Scott Ardoin, professor and head of the Department of Educational Psychology, was recently named president-elect of the Society for the Study of School Psychology, a nonprofit and invitation-only organization focused on recognizing and supporting scholarship and research. Invitations to join SSSP are generally only extended to those whose research has had an effect on the field of school psychology.
“We’re always looking for new avenues that might help school psychology students and faculty improve upon the research being conducted in the field of school psychology, and this often amounts to providing researchers with funding through competitive grants,” said Ardoin. “One easy way that members can promote excellent research is through informing junior faculty of the grant opportunities that the organization offers and then mentoring them while they conduct their research.”
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Co-author Jones honored for article
An article by Stephanie Jones and Karen Spector, Becoming Unstuck: Racism and Mysogyny as Traumas Diffused in the Ordinary, received the 2017 Distinguished Article Award from the National Council of Teachers of English. The article was published in Language Arts and uses posthumanism and affect theory to make sense of children’s actions during and after events grounded in racism and misogyny. The authors call into question common anti-racist and anti-misogynistic teaching and encourage teachers and researchers to recognize young people’s “genres of protest” against racism and misogyny as emergent and pedagogical for youth and adults alike.
The award will be presented in November at the annual convention of the National Council of Teachers of English in St. Louis, Missouri. Jones is a professor in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice.
East Stroudsburg honors deMarrais
Kathleen deMarrais, professor and head of the Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy, recently received the 2017 Excellence in Education Award from East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania for her superior teaching ability and commitment to students at the college level.
Since her graduation in 1971, deMarrais has spent nearly five decades as a special education teacher, faculty member and mentor to dozens of doctoral students in the College of Education’s qualitative research program, which she helped to create. “I’ve always just really enjoyed the challenge of teaching and trying to support students in their goals and in their careers,” said deMarrais. “It’s been a long and very enjoyable career, and I try to keep it fresh.”