Miami University

Faculty from the School of Education, Health and Society are nationally known for their scholarly achievements.  Read on for a sampling of recent books:

2008-09:

Educational Leadership:
Culturally Proficient Leadership: The Personal Journey Begins Within, Ray Terrell and Randall Lindsey.  The book has been nominated for a national award, and in an interview the author addresses such questions as how teachers can enhance inclusivness in their classrooms.

Handbook of Feminist Family Studies, Sally A. Lloyd, April L. Few and Katherine R. Allen

It’s All About Jesus! Faith as an Oppositional Collegiate Subculture, Peter Magolda and Kelsey Ebben Gross,

Educational Psychology:
Surviving Graduate Study in Special Education: An Insider’s Guide, Leah Wasburn-Moses

Educating and Caring for Very Young Children: The Infant/Toddler Curriculum, (2nd edition) by Doris Bergen, R. Reid, and L. Torelli

African Origin Children and Families: A Guide for Educators and Service Providers, Doris Bergen and Y. Harris

Public School Law: Teachers’ and Students’ Rights, by Stephen Thomas, Nelda Cambron-McCabe, and Martha McCarthy

Legal Rights of Teachers and Students, Nelda Cambron-McCabe, Martha McCarthy, and Stephen Thomas

Conducting School-Based Functional Behavioral Assessments, Mark W. Steege and T. Steuart Watson

Family Studies and Social Work:

Family Poverty in Diverse Contexts, Alfred L. Joseph &
C. Anne Broussard (Eds.)

Families in a Global Context, C. B. Hennon & S.M. Wilson, (Eds.)

The Influence of Family Environment on Juvenile
Delinquency Issues among African American Youth (in press), J.Y. Lim and J. Herron.

Kinesiology and Health:
Coaching effectiveness in the sport domain. In Thelma S. Horn (Ed.), Advances in Sport Psychology (3rd ed.)

Teacher Education
Zigzag: A Life in Reading and Writing, Tom Romano

Using Children’s Literature to Teach the Social Studies Academic Content, Shiveley, J. & Helms R.,. Ohio Council for the Social Studies, Columbus, OH

 

Archive:

Robert Weinberg, kinesiology and health, and Dan Gould, Foundations in Sport and Exercise Psychology, 4th edition, Human Kinetics (2007).

M.T. (Todd) Edwards, teacher education, Brown, S., Breunlin, R.J., Eddins, S., Wiltjer, M. & Usiskin, Z., University of Chicago School Mathematics Project
(UCSMP) Algebra, 3rd edition, Wright Group/McGraw Hill (2007).

Melissa Schulz, teacher education, and Honchell, Barbara (editors), Literacy for diverse learners: Finding common ground in today¹s classrooms. Norwood, MA: Christopher-Gordon Publishers (2007).  Also authored two chapters in the book, “Defining Diverse Learners” and “Home-based and School-based literacy practices.”

Dennis Carlson, educational leadership, and C.P. Gause, (editors), Keeping the Promise: Essays on Leadership, Democracy, and Education, New York: Peter Lang (2007).

Kathleen Knight Abowitz, educational leadership, and Joseph Wegwert, “Veteran’s Day in a U.S. public high school:  Lessons for nationalistic loyalty or cosmopolitanism?”, in Changing Notions of Citizenship Education in Contemporary Nation-states, edited by Klas Roth and Nicholas Burbules, Rotterdam, The Netherlands:  Sense Publishers, 2007.

Kathleen Knight Abowitz and Kate Rousmaniere, both educational leadership, “Margaret Haley as Diva:  A case study of a feminist citizen-leader,” in Keeping the Promise: Educational Leadership and the Promise of Democracy in Our Time, edited by Dennis Carlson and C.P. Gause, pp. 233-256.  New York:  Peter Lang, 2007.

Kate Rousmaniere, educational leadership, “Education in the MidWest,” in The American Midwest: An Interpetive Encyclopedia, edited by Richard Sisson, Andrew R. L. Cayton, and Christian K. Zacher (Indiana University Press: 2007).

Nicholas Longo, educational leadership (adjunct) and director of Miami’s Harry T. Wilks Leadership Institute, Why Community Matters: Connecting Education with Civic Life, SUNY Press (2007).

 

Keynote addresses and other honors:

Nelda Cambron-McCabe, educational leadership, worked with a small group of school superintendents over the past two years to plan and develop the National Superintendents Roundtable, which was launched in 2007 with inaugural meetings in Chicago (August) and Phoenix (October).  Support for the planning came from the Kellogg Foundation, Johnson Foundation, and the College Board.

Robin Vealey, kinesiology and health, keynote speaker, title, Association for Applied Sport Psychology, October 2007, Louisville, Ky.  

Robert Weinberg, kinesiology and health, keynote speaker, International Conference in Applied Sport Psychology, July 2007, Braga, Portugal, University of Minho.

Michele Dickey, educational psychology, keynote speaker, Teaching and Learning Conference '07 - Cedarville University, Cedarville, Ohio.

Dennis Carlson, educational leadership, presidential address, American Educational Studies Association Presidential Address, October, 2007, Cleveland.