Educational Psychology—Limitations and Possibilities

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transnational space of the twenty-first century. Her current research is into the visual representation
of Muslim women in the post-9/11 United States, and the use of contemporary art as a
pedagogical tool for a more multifaceted understanding of difference.
PAM JOYCE received her doctorate from the Urban Education Program at the CUNY Graduate
Center. She teaches high school English in Montclair, New Jersey. She is the author of an
upcoming book from Peter Lang Publishing.
YATTA KANU is associate professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning,
Faculty of Education, University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. Her areas of research interest
are curriculum, culture and student learning, inclusive education, curriculum reform, and
international education.
LYNDA KENNEDY is a doctoral student in the Urban Education Program at the CUNY Graduate
Center. She has worked extensively in museum education.
JOE L. KINCHELOE is the Canada Research Chair at the McGill University Faculty of Education.
He is the author of numerous books and articles about pedagogy, education and social justice,
racism, class bias, and sexism, issues of cognition and cultural context, and educational reform. His
books include: Teachers as Researchers, Classroom Teaching: An Introduction, Getting Beyond
the Facts: Teaching Social Studies/Social Sciences in the Twenty-first Century,The Sign of the
Burger: McDonald’s and the Culture of Power, City Kids: Understanding Them, Appreciating
Them, and Teaching Them, and Changing Multiculturalism (with Shirley Steinberg). His coedited
works include The Urban Education Encyclopedia, White Reign: Deploying Whiteness in America
(with Shirley Steinberg et al.) and the Gustavus Myers Human Rights award winner: Measured
Lies: The Bell Curve Examined (with Shirley Steinberg and Aaron D. Gresson).
KATHRYN KINNUCAN-WELSCH is associate professor and coordinator of graduate programs
in the Department of Teacher Education, University of Dayton. She has served as facilitator and
researcher of numerous professional development initiatives in Georgia, Michigan, and Ohio. Her
research interests include professional development of teachers, literacy, and qualitative research
methodology.
THIAM SENG KOH is an associate professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang
Technological University. He is a faculty member of the Natural Sciences and Science Education
Academic Group. His research interests include communities of practice, the use of ICT in science
education and policy studies on the integration of ICT into the curriculum.
B. LARA LEE is a doctoral candidate in Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations at
the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She has taught for seven years as an Adjunct
Professor and more recently as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in her doctorate program. Her
research interests are in Communication and Cultural Studies. She has lectured and participated
in conference organization and workshops nationally and internationally to examine gendergap
issues grounded in communicational, educational and social inequities. Her aspiration, and
lifelong mission, is the promotion of social justice and equity through education.
XIAOMING LIU is an assistant professor of Reading at the Pennsylvania State University –
Harrisburg. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate literacy courses. Her research interests
include authentic/alternative literacy assessment and literacy portfolios in particular; English
language learners’ language acquisition, literacy development, home-school connections, and
identity issues; and content area literacy.