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Jessica Jablonski, Visiting Instructor of Psychology4Jessica Jablonski, M.S. is expected to defend her dissertation in the beginning ofthe spring semester. Her research project entitled Characteristics of ParentingAssociated with Adolescent to Parent Aggression used as a framework the literaturerelated to Coercion Theory, which was put forth by Gerald Patterson. Using acorrelational design, the results of her study were statistically significant andsupported both hypotheses: (1) the more inconsistent the discipline, the greater theadolescent to parent aggression, (2) the less parents used positive reinforcement forgood behavior, the greater the adolescent to parent aggression. To date, most of the literature onadolescent to parent aggression has not been grounded in theory, and has focused on familydemographic variables rather than relational factors. Extending Coercion theory to investigateadolescent to parent aggression provides for a more complete understanding of this extreme ofadolescent antisocial behavior.Emari DiGiorgio, Visiting Assistant Professor of WritingEmari was awarded the 2006 Ellen La Forge Memorial Poetry Prize, and her poemswill be featured in the forthcoming Grolier Poetry Annual. In addition, theAssociation of Writers and Writing Programs has accepted her paper “Reduce,Reuse, Recycle: The Three R’s of Revision” for their 2007 edition of AWP’sPedagogy Papers. She is also on the planning committee for Bringing Caregivers Closer: A Segue tothe Humanities, Arts and Integrative Care and was a panel member and scholar-facilitator for theDecember retreat “Living with the Diagnosis and Management of Failure.”Rita Mulholland, Assistant Professor of Teacher EducationI am conducting an action-research project using an animated technology softwareprogram with students experiencing autism in order to determine its effectivenesswith improving expressive language. I will be speaking about the results of thisstudy at the national Council for Exceptional Children conference in Kentucky(April 07), and at the International Special Education Forum in Peru (July 07). Iintend to publish this study.I am a co-author of a book for first year special education teachers to be published by Prentice Hallin January 07: A Practical Guide for Special Educators.In December I will be working with US Aid and the International Reading Association inMacedonia to improve teacher training. Over 200 educators will participate in the workshops. I willmeet with the Minister of Education to report on the progress of the effort over the last year.I am working with an interdisciplinary team to develop an assistive technology resource program:OT, Speech, and MAIT faculty. This effort will provide hands-on experiences with assistivetechnology hardware and software to enhance graduate students’ professional expertise.
James Avery, Assistant Professor of Political Science5My research focuses on the sources and consequences of public opinion andpolitical behavior. I have several papers that examine the sources and consequencesof political mistrust among African Americans. One paper recently appeared inAmerican Politics Research, another is forthcoming at Political Behavior, and a third isunder review. I am currently working on two projects that use originally collecteddata and will eventually be published as books. One project examines the influenceof black political participation on the quality of substantive representation inCongress and what factors (e.g., race or partisanship of representative, region, and electoralcompetition) may moderate this relationship. One paper based on this project was presented at the2006 meeting of the American Political Science Association and a second paper received the PiSigma Alpha award for best paper presented at the 2006 meeting of the Southern Political ScienceAssociation. The second project examines change in presidential candidates’ ideological positions,media portrayals of their positions, and public perceptions of their positions across the course ofan election campaign. Ultimately, this project seeks to examine several important issues including(1) whether candidates converge on the median voter after the primary elections, (2) the accuracyof media portrayals of candidates’ ideology, (3) the accuracy and sources of public perceptions ofcandidates’ ideology, and (4) the extent to which public perceptions of candidates’ ideologicalpositions influence the decisions of whether to vote and for whom to vote. I am presenting a paperbased on this project at the 2007 meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association.Brad J. Porfilio, Assistant Professor of Teacher EducationBrad’s article, The Possibilities of Transformation: Critical Research and Peter McLaren was publishedin the International Journal of Progressive Education in October. This work highlights howPeter McLaren’s theoretical ideas surrounding critical multiculturalism, critical pedagogy, and qualitativeresearch functioned to shape his two-year dissertation study. The project unearths twentyWhite female pre-service teachers’ views and experiences with computing technology and computerculture. He was also invited by Teacher College Record to review Gilberto Conchas’s bookThe Color of Success: Race and High-achieving Urban Youth. The review was published in earlyNovember. He presented his recent essay (with Dr. Curry Malott) on the subject of assessing thevalue of employing two alternative subcultures—hip hop and punk cultures—in teacher educationprograms at the American Educational StudiesConference. The conference was held inSpokane, Washington in early November.Finally, he is co-editing a book with Dr.Curry Malott An International Examinationof Urban Education: The Destructive Pathof Neoliberalism. Scholars from the UnitedStates, Canada, Britain, and Australia arecontributing their ideas in relation to howneo-liberal policies and practices are structuringlife in urban contexts across the globe.The New Faculty/Mentor Brunch in September
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