Teaching and learning of elementary school mathematics; gender issues in mathematics education; in-service and preservice teacher learning; children's mathematical thinking.

UC Davis Faculty Web Page

email: rcambrose@ucdavis.edu

Jacques Benninga, Ph.D.
California State University, Fresno
Graduate Group

Curriculum and instruction; developmental psychology; character education.

Fresno State Faculty Web Page

email: jackb@csufresno.edu

Sharon Brown-Welty, Ed.D.
California State University, Fresno
CSUF Director
Graduate Group

Evaluation, specifically, utilization of evaluation results; education leadership; conflict resolution; strategic planning; policy development and labor relations.

Fresno State Faculty Web Page

email: sharonb@csufresno.edu

Karen T. Carey, Ph.D.
California State University, Fresno
Graduate Group

Naturalistic intervention design, implementation and evaluation; pre-school; severely handicapped; strategic planning.

Fresno State Faculty Web Page

email: karenc@csufresno.edu

Joseph Castro, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis
Graduate Group

Research issues in organizational learning; changes and leadership in higher education.

UCSB Faculty Web Page

email: joe.castro@ucop.edu

James Catterall, Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles
Graduate Group

Leadership and strategic planning; instructional reform and teacher change; children at-risk.

UCLA Faculty Web Page

email: jamesc@gse.ucla.edu

Organizational culture, organization change, achievement gap, at-risk students, micropolitics, higher education administration and development, socio-cultural issues.

Fresno State Faculty Web Page

email: alfredoc@csufresno.edu

Leadership skills and organizational development, program evaluation, teaching via the internet, developmental disabilities, physical disabilities, health (specifically nutrition, physical activity, and food availability) issues, chemical dependency, treatment and evaluation.

email: dharris@csufresno.edu

Paul Heckman, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis
Graduate Group

School, curriculum, and community change; Leadership and change; School restructuring; organization arrangements and structures; School culture; change and cognition; Curriculum theory and change; and the Educational Ecology of communities.

UC Davis Faculty Web Page

email: pcheckman@ucdavis.edu

James E. Marshall, II, Ph.D.
California State University, Fresno
Graduate Group

School curriculum reform; assessment; science education.

Fresno State Faculty Web Page

email: jamesm@csufresno.edu

Peter McLaren, Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles
Graduate Group

Curriculum theory and design; critical pedagogy; cultural pedagogy in postmodern contexts; critical theory and critical multiculturalism; historical, philosophical, social and multicultural foundations of education.

UCLA Faculty Web Page

email: mclaren@ucla.edu

John McNeil, Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles
Graduate Group

Supervision; curriculum; teaching; evaluation; literacy.

email: None

Barbara Merino, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis
Graduate Group

Sociolinguistics; bilingualism; classroom discourse; language assessment; teaching of literacy and science to language minority students; teacher education; research and policy; teaching of Spanish to native Spanish speakers.

UC Davis Faculty Web Page

email: bjmerino@ucdavis.edu

Sandra Murphy, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis
Graduate Group

Teaching and assessing writing; reading comprehension; relationships between reading and writing; oral and written language differences.

UC Davis Faculty Web Page

email: smmurphy@ucdavis.edu

Gloria Rodriguez, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis
Graduate Group

Educational leadership for equity; school-based budgeting issues; school finance from a social justice perspective; issues related to the educational experiences of students of color and low-income students; educational policy development.

UC Davis Faculty Web Page

email: gmrodriguez@ucdavis.edu

Educational psychology; statistics and measurement; educational research; quantitative and qualitative evaluation; assessing student achievement; evaluating classroom assessment instruments; and, evaluating the performance of teachers and teacher candidates.

Fresno State Faculty Web Page

email: davidt@csufresno.edu

Susan Tracz, Ph.D.
California State University, Fresno
Graduate Group

Statistical methodology (general linear model issues, meta-analysis)' educational reform (national teacher certification); counseling (interprofessional collaboration, dream/imagery techniques in counseling).

Fresno State Faculty Web Page

email: susant@csufresno.edu

Agri-food system literacy, agri-food system as a content for teaching and learning, experiential learning in science and technology education, and service-learning.

UC Davis Faculty Web Page

email: cjtrexler@ucdavis.edu

Ronald P. Unruh, Ph.D.
California State University, Fresno
Graduate Group

Research in education; measurement and program evaluation; survey development.

Fresno State Faculty Web Page

email: ronu@csufresno.edu

Jon Wagner, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis
Graduate Group

Social contexts of teaching, learning and educational research; school organization, change and reform; practitioner research; qualitative research, including visual studies of education and schooling; children's material culture.

UC Davis Faculty Web Page

email: fzwagner@ucdavis.edu

Karen Watson-Gegeo, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis
Graduate Group

Ethnographic research methods; critical ethnography; sociolinguistics; discourse analysis; first and second language acquisition; pidgin/Creole languages; human development; language socialization; language policy; issues in education in the Third World (especially South Pacific); critical perspectives on literacy and schooling (including issues of gender, class, ethnicity, and identity).

UC Davis Faculty Web Page

email: kawatsongegeo@ucdavis.edu

Educational leadership, instructional supervision, educational reform and reform models, planning for higher achievement, school and district planning, changing school cultures.

Fresno State Faculty Web Page

email: dwise@csufresno.edu

Human resource issues as related to recruitment, selection, and compensation of public school personnel.

UC Davis Faculty Web Page

email: ipyoung@ucdavis.edu