Faculty Research Interests

 

Carmel French, PhD

Children with Challenging Needs and Their Families.  Assessment Issues and Measures.  Early Intervention.  Children's Rights.  Inclusive Education.  Policy Development and Evaluation.

Beverlie Dietze, PhD

Early learning and child care programming and administrative topics, including outdoor play, risk taking, physical activity, and staff development models.

Fernando Nunes, PhD

Minority Academic Underachievement.  At-Risk Minority Youth.  Migration and Immigrant Settlement.  Critical Pedagogy.  Participatory Research. Profile

Joan Turner, PhD

Child Life Professional Practice Issues.  Professional Development.  Children's Concepts of Health and Illness.  Effects of Illness and Hospitalization on Children and Families. Profile

Donna Varga, PhD

Cultural Ideas about Early Childhood Education.  History and Philosophy of Early Childhood Education.  Popular Culture for/about Childhood and Adolescence.  Representations of Childhood in Children's Stories.  Animal-Human Interrelationships.  Play in Childhood.  Profile