Haroutunian-Gordon, Sophie
Director, Master of Science in Education
Professor, Education and Social Policy
- PhD, Philosophy of Education, University of Chicago, 1976
- MA, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1966
- BA, Music, Religion/Philosophy, Cornell College, 1965
Research Interests
Philosophy of education, teacher education, interpretive discussion, philosophy of psychology.
Lee, Carol
Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Education and Social Policy
Professor, Learning Sciences
Professor, African American Studies
- PhD, Education (Curriculum and Instruction), University of Chicago, 1991
- MA, English, University of Chicago, 1969
- BA, The Teaching of Secondary School English, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, 1966
Research Interests
Cultural contexts affecting learning broadly and literacy specifically; teacher preparation and development; classroom discourse; urban education.
Mandara, Jelani
Associate Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
- PhD, Social/Personality Psychology, University of California, Riverside, 2002
- BS, Psychology, California State University, Long Beach, 1997
Sherin, Bruce
Associate Professor, Learning Sciences
- PhD, Science and Mathematics Education, University of California, Berkeley, 1996
- MA, Physics, University of California, Berkeley, 1989
- BA, Physics, Princeton University, 1985
Research Interests
Conceptual change in science; computational linguistics applied to natural language data; programming environments for learning; external representations in science and mathematics.
Sherin, Miriam
Professor, Learning Sciences
Director of Undergraduate Education, School of Education and Social Policy
- PhD, Science and Mathematics Education, University of California, Berkeley, 1996
- MA, Mathematics, University of California, San Diego, 1987
- BA, Mathematics, University of Chicago, 1985
Research Interests
Mathematics teaching and learning; teacher cognition and teacher education.
Smith-Demuth, Sylvia
Assistant Professor, SESP
Director, Alternative Certification Program
- PhD, Curriculum and Instruction in Mathematics, University of Chicago, 2005
- MEd, Curriculum and Instruction, Mathematics, Loyola University, 1979
- BA, Mathematics, English, Loyola University, 1976
Research Interests
Mathematics achievement; mathematics teaching and learning - cognition; social context of education; opportunity to learn.
Spillane, James
Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Professor in Learning and Organizational Change
Chair and Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Professor, Learning Sciences
Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research
- PhD, Curriculum, Teaching and Education Policy, Michigan State University, 1993
- BA, Education and Geography, St. Patrick's College, National University of Ireland, 1984