Curriculum & Instruction Faculty Publications
This list of faculty publications does not represent a complete body of scholarship for the faculty members from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. This collection contains only open access publications or publications that have been granted specific permission to be posted to UNI ScholarWorks, UNI's institutional repository. For a complete listing of a faculty member's publications see their profile in the SelectedWorks Profile Gallery. The SelectedWorks Faculty Profile has a more complete list of publications and includes links to publications deposited in UNI ScholarWorks and links out to publications on publisher's websites.
Submissions from 2010
Rorty’s Social Theory and the Narrative of U.S. History Curriculum, Jesse Goodman, Sarah Montgomery Dr., and Connie Ables
"Living One's Civics": Making a Difference Through Service Learning, Sarah Montgomery, Marilynne Boyle-Baise, and Leana McClain
E Pluribus Unum: Out Of Many, One, Jean Suchsland Schneider and Donna Schumacher Douglas
Ends in Themselves: Theorizing the Practice of University-School Partnering through Horizontalidad, Sarah Vander Zanden, Gerald Campano, Michelle A. Honeyford, and Lenny Sánchez
Exploring Social Connectivity Through The Use Of Adolescent Queer Literature, Dwight C. Watson
Ramps And Pathways: Developmentally Appropriate, Intellectually Rigorous, And Fun Physical Science, Betty Zan and Rosemary Geiken
Defining The Difference: Comparing Integrated And Traditional Single-Subject Lessons, Ksenia S. Zhbanova, Audrey C. Rule, Sarah E. Montgomery, and Lynn E. Nielsen
Submissions from 2009
Orientation To A New Book: More Than A Picture Walk, Connie Briggs and Salli Forbes
Definition To Practice: Translating The Definition Into A Standards-Based It Program, Ana J. Donaldson
Integrating Social Justice With Mathematics And Science: An Analysis Of Student Teacher Lessons, Barbara Garii and Audrey C. Rule
A Case Study of a Rural Iowa School Preparing to Meet New State Guidelines for School Libraries, Karla Steege Krueger
Teaching Strategies: Putting The Cart Before The Horse: The Role Of A Socio-Moral Atmosphere In An Inquiry-Based Curriculum, Maryann Manning, Tunde Szecsi, Rosemary Geiken, Beth Dykstra Van Meeteren, and Tsuguhiko Kato
Community-Building In A Diverse Setting, Audrey C. Rule and Patricia B. Kyle
Teaching Urban High School Students Global Climate Change Information And Graph Interpretation Skills Using Evidence From The Scientific Literature, Audrey C. Rule and Mary A. Meyer
A Working Conference on Students with Disabilities in STEM Coursework and Careers, Audrey C. Rule, Greg P. Stefanich, Charlotte W. Haselhuhn, and Belinda Peiffer
Submissions from 2008
Reading Recovery: A Major Component of Many RTI Models, Salli Forbes, Beth Swenson, and Tonya Person
Study of the Sustained Effects of Reading Recovery in Iowa, Salli Forbes and Mike Szymczuk
Teaching Strategies: Physical Science In Constructivist Early Childhood Classrooms, Tsuguhiko Kato and Beth Dykstra Van Meeteren
A case study of a rural Iowa school preparing to meet new state guidelines for school libraries [dissertation], Karla Steege Krueger Open Access Dissertation
The Clash of "Common Senses": Two African American Women Become Teachers, Shuaib Meacham
Effective Materials For Increasing Young Children's Spatial And Mapping Skills, Mandy R. Petty and Audrey C. Rule
Book Groups: Research Review, Joan Bessman Taylor
A Book Club Sheds Light On Boys And Reading, Timothy G. Weih
Submissions from 2007
Nurturing Children's Concepts Of Time And Chronology Through Literature, Jeanne Mc Lain Harms and Lucille J. Lettow
Learning to Play and Playing to Learn: Research Sites as Transactional Spaces, Shuaib Meacham and Bob Fecho
Good for What? Non-appeal, Discussibility, and Book Groups (Part 1), Joan Bessman Taylor
Good for What? Non-appeal, Discussibility, and Book Groups (Part 2), Joan Bessman Taylor
Submissions from 2006
Fostering Teacher Learning Through Dialogue in Training Sessions, Salli Forbes and Connie Briggs
Effects Of A Legislated Mandate: The Comprehensive School Improvement Process And Middle-Level Gifted And Talented Programming, Jean Suchsland Schneider
Literature Autobiography Bags, Timothy G. Weih
Rescuing The Childcare Center: One Community's Efforts To Manage Change Through Generating And Coordinating Resources, Jaclyn Yetmar, Jill M. Uhlenberg, Charles R. May, and Rick C. Traw
Submissions from 2005
Scaffolding A Student's Development of Storytelling With Wordless Picture Books, Penny L. Beed and Ashley Shipp
The Genre of Traditional Literature Influences Student Writing, Timothy G. Weih
NAEYC Accreditation And High Quality Preschool Curriculum, Betty Zan
Submissions from 2004
Room Acoustics Intervention Efficacy Measures, Carl C. Crandell, Brian M. Kreisman, Joseph J. Smaldino, and Nicole V. Kreisman
How Reading Recovery Teaches the Five Essential Elements of Reading Instruction and More: Second of a Two-Part Series, Salli Forbes and Mary Anne Doyle
Citizenship For All In The Literate Community: An Ethnography Of Young Children With Significant Disabilities In Inclusive Early Childhood Settings, Christopher Kliewer, Linda May Fitzgerald, Jodi Meyer-Mork, Patresa Hartman, Pat English-Sand, and Donna Raschke
InTime Impact Report. What was InTime's Effectiveness and Impact on Faculty and Preservice Teachers?, Karla Krueger, Marius Boboc, Sharon Smaldino, Yana Cornish, and William Callahan
Comments on Bakhtin and Dialogic Pedagogy, Shuaib Meacham
Community Knowledge-Centered Teacher Education: A Paradigm for Socially Just Educational Transformation, Shuaib Meacham and Nora E. Hyland
Bridging The Gap Between Fiction And Nonfiction In The Literature Circle Setting, Debbie Stien and Penny L. Beed
Submissions from 2003
When Children Make Rules, Rheta DeVries and Betty Zan
How Reading Recovery Teaches the Five Essential Elements of Reading Instruction and More, Mary Anne Doyle and Salli Forbes
Reading And Writing As Social, Cultural Practices: Implications For Literacy Education, David Landis
Introduction: (Re)Reading Students' Difficulties With Reading And Writing, David Landis and Elizabeth B. Moje
A Student's View of Our Professional Community, Kari R. Schmidt
First Graders’ Interpersonal Understanding During Cooperative And Competitive Games, Betty Zan and Carolyn Hildebrandt
Submissions from 2002
Phrasing in Fluent Reading: Process and Product, Connie Briggs and Salli Forbes
Issues In Constructivist Early Moral Education, Rheta Devries, Betty Zan, and Carolyn Hildebrandt
Teaching As You Would Have Them Teach: An Effective Elementary Science Teacher Preparation Program, Cherin Lee and Lisa Krapfl
Headwoman’s Blues: Small Group Reading and the Interaction of Culture, Gender, and Ability, Shuaib J. Meacham
Submissions from 2001
Selecting English Language Learners for Reading Recovery, Salli Forbes
Disability, Schooling, And The Artifacts Of Colonialism, Christopher Kliewer and Linda May Fitzgerald
Identity, Purpose, and Impact: Bebop Innovators as Intellectuals and Models for African American Academic Success, Shuaib Meacham
Vygotsky and the Blues: Re-Reading Cultural Connections and Conceptual Development, Shuaib J. Meacham
Critical Issues: Democracy, Community, Self, Literacy, And The Value Of Global Conversation, Kurtis S. Meredith, Jeannie L. Steele, and Sona Kikušová
Submissions from 2000
Vygotsky, Piaget, And Education: A Reciprocal Assimilation Of Theories And Educational Practices, Rheta DeVries
Constructivist Early Education For Moral Development, Rheta Devries, Carolyn Hildebrandt, and Betty Zan
Developing Individualized Education Programs For Children In Inclusive Settings: A Developmentally Appropriate Framework, Rebecca Edmiaston, Val Dolezal, Sharon Doolittle, Carol Erickson, and Sandy Merritt
How Reggio Emilia Encourages Inclusion, Rebecca K. Edmiaston and Linda May Fitzgerald
Preservice Teacher Technology Competencies: A Model for Preparing Teachers of Tomorrow To Use Technology, Karla Krueger, Lisa Hansen, and Sharon Smaldino
The Spirit of a Man, Shuaib Meacham
Community, Displacement, and Inquiry: Living Social Justice in a Social Studies Methods Course, Shuaib Meacham, Edward Buendia, and Susan E. Noffke
Black Self-Love, Language, and the Teacher Education Dilemma: The Cultural Denial and Cultural Limbo of African American Preservice Teachers, Shuaib J. Meacham
Literacy at the Crossroads: Movement, Connection, and Communication With in the Research Literature on Literacy and Cultural Diversity, Shuaib J. Meacham
Submissions from 1999
Preservice Teachers' Experiences of "America Reads" Research, Penny L. Beed, David Landis, Charline Barnes, Kari Benson, Kim Willms, and Amy Zidlicky
A Discourse on Literacy and Community: Research Relationships for Preservice Teachers, Karen Broaddus and David Landis
Implications Of Piaget's Constructivist Theory For Character Education, Rheta Devries
Individualizing Literacy Instruction For Young Children With Moderate To Severe Disabilities, Christopher Kliewer and David Landis
Modernism, Postmodernism, and Poststructuralism and Their Impact on Literacy, Shuaib J. Meacham and Edward Buendia
Submissions from 1998
Talking Teaching And Learning: Using Practical Argument To Make Reflective Thinking Audible, Robert Boody, Katheryn East, Linda M. Fitzgerald, Melissa L. Heston, and Annette M. Iverson
Book Design Clements: Integrating The Whole, Jeanne Mc Lain Harms and Lucille J. Lettow
Transgressions: Teaching According to "Bell Hooks.", Susan E. Hill, Linda May Fitzgerald, Joel Haack, and Scharron Clayton
Threads of a New Language: A Response to Eisenhart’s ‘On the Subject of Interpretive Review’, Shuaib J. Meacham
Teaching Students With Disabilities In Inclusive Science Classrooms: Survey Results, Katherine Norman, Dana Caseau, and Greg P. Stefanich
Integration In Teacher Education: Building Units Around Ordinary, Everyday Objects, Bonnie von Hoff Johnson and Dale D. Johnson
Submissions from 1997
Teachers' Training in Distance Education and Their Willingness to Use the Technology After the Completion of Inservice Training, Sanaa Abou-Dagga and Mary C. Herring
Piaget's Social Theory, Rheta DeVries
Development of Design Guiding Principles For Constructivist-Based Distance Learning Environments, Mary C. Herring
President's Message, Peggy Ishler
The Last Rational Men: Citizenship, Morality, and the Pursuit of Human Perfection, Shuaib Meacham, Cameron McCarthy, Ed Buendia, Carol Mills, Heriberto Godina, Carrie Wilson-Brown, Maria Seferian, and Theresa Souchet
Danger in the Safety Zone: Notes on Race, Resentment, and the Discourse of Crime, Violence and Suburban Security, Shuaib Meacham, Cameron McCarthy, Alicia P. Rodriguez, and Ed Buendia
Reflections on Designing and Producing an Internet-Based Course, Robert Muffoletto
The Educational Media Experience in Teacher Education, Sharon E. Smaldino and Robert Muffoletto
The Curriculum – Iowa Star Schools project, Sharon E. Smaldino, Michael Simonson, and Sandra Wigdahl
Submissions from 1996
Assessing Interpersonal Understanding In The Classroom Context, Rheta Devries and Betty Zan
Interacting With Inner Audiences To Extend Reading Experiences, Jeanne Mc Lain Harms and Lucille J. Lettow
President's Message, Peggy Ishler
President's Message, Peggy Ishler
President's Message, Peggy Ishler
Integrating World Wide Web searching skills into world geography information skills curriculum, Karla Steege Krueger Open Access Graduate Research Paper
A Discourse Of Benefit: Technology And School Reform In The USA, Robert Muffoletto
Effective Techniques For Distance Education Instruction, Sharon E. Smaldino
Large-Scale Assessment Of Skills In A Whole Language Curriculum: Two Districts' Experiences, Rick Traw
Interpersonal Understanding Among Friends: A Case-Study Of Two Young Boys Playing Checkers, Betty Zan
Submissions from 1995
Moral Activity And Domain Theory: An Alternative Interpretation Of Research With Young Children, Michael Glassman and Betty Zan
Preservice Teacher Education - Innovative Applications Of Interactive Television, Mary Herring, Sharon Smaldino, and Ann Thompson
Submissions from 1994
Science Educators As Active Collaborators In Meeting The Educational Needs Of Students With Disabilities, Greg Stefanich
Submissions from 1993
Folks, Friends And Foes: Relationships Between Humans And Animals In Some Eastern And Western Folktales, Mingshui Cai
The Attitudes Of Family Physicians Toward The Peer Review Process, Ronald R. Roth, Paul J. Porter, Gerald R. Bisbey, and Charles R. May
