Educational Psychology—Limitations and Possibilities

About the Contributors 1005
ANNE BROWNSTEIN is a doctoral student in the Urban Education Program at the CUNY
Graduate Center in New York.
ERICA BURMAN is professor of psychology and Women’s Studies at the Manchester Metropolitan
University, where she codirects the Discourse Unit and the Women’s Studies Research Centre.
She is the author of Deconstructing Developmental Psychology (1994), coauthor of Challenging
Women: psychology’s exclusions, feminist possibilities (1995) and Psychology Discourse Practice:
From regulation to resistance (1996), editor of Feminists and Psychological Practice (1990)
and Deconstructing Feminist Psychology (1998), and coeditor of Discourse Analytic Research
(1993) Culture, Power and Difference (998).
MONTSERRAT CASTELLÓ is professor of educational psychology at the Department of Psychology
at Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain where she also directs the doctoral programs
in Psychology and Education. She coordinates at the same University the postgraduate and longlife
learning courses in Psychology and Education. She is a member of the editorial board of
Cultura y educacion and Infancia y aprendizaje. She is an active member of the European Research
of Learning and Instruction (EARLI) and she belongs to the Specials Interests Groups
in writing and higher education. She is member of the EARLI Spanish Committee, the Spanish
SIG-Writing and the interuniversity seminar of learning strategies (SINTE).
DANIEL E. CHAPMAN is completing his dissertation under the guidance of Dr. Leila Villaverde
at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His diverse background includes teaching
middle school in urban and rural settings, directing several documentaries and other educational
media, working with home school students, and teaching creative writing at a drug rehabilitation
facility. His interests include Media Literacy, Media Studies, Critical Theory, and Literacy
Education.
BRENDA CHEREDNICHENKO is currently the head of the School of Education at Victoria
University, Australia. The School has preservice and postgraduate programs in primary, secondary,
and early childhood Education, Training and Youth Studies. Brenda’s research interests
are in collaborative practitioner research in educational reform, the teaching of thinking and
philosophical inquiry, equity, and social justice in learning and teaching, democratic learning and
socio-philosophy and education. Her books and articles are widely used.
PETER CHIN is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at Queen’s University in
Kingston, Ontario, Canada. His research interests can be found in science education with particular
focus on science teaching and learning in school and workplace environments. The inclusion of
students with exceptionalities and at-risk students is emphasized.
LISE BIRD CLAIBORNE is the director of postgraduate studies and Senior Lecturer in the
School of Education, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. She has researched and
taught in the area of critical educational psychology for many years, and is coauthor of the widely
used textbook Human Development in Aotearoa (2003).
KEVIN CLAPANO received his BS in psychology from the Ateneo de Manila University in 1992
and his MS in experimental psychology with a focus on Health Psychology in 1995 from Saint
Joseph’s University. He is currently pursuing his doctoral degree in education at Saint Joseph’s
University with a focus on interdisciplinary educational leadership.
THOMAS R. CONWAY is currently the Social Studies Chairperson and Summer School Coordinator
at Philadelphia Electrical and Technology Charter High School. Conway is an adjunct
professor of religion at La Salle University and is pursuing his doctoral degree in Educational
Leadership at Saint Joseph’s University.