Biography:

Elizabeth Birr Moje is dean, the George Herbert Mead Collegiate Professor of Education, and an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Literacy, Language, and Culture in the Marsal Family School of Education. Moje teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in secondary and adolescent literacy, cultural theory, and research methods and was awarded the Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize with colleague, Bob Bain, in 2010. A former high school history and biology teacher, Moje’s research examines young people’s culture, identity, and literacy learning in and out of school in Detroit, Michigan.

Moje has published 5 books and numerous articles in journals such as Science, Harvard Educational Review, Teachers College Record, Reading Research Quarterly, Socius, Journal of Literacy Research, Review of Education Research, Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Science Education, International Journal of Science Education, Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, and the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. Her research projects have been or are currently funded by the National Institutes of Health/NICHD, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, National Science Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation, Spencer Foundation, International Reading Association, and the National Academy of Education. Moje is a member of the William T. Grant Foundation Board of Trustees, an elected member of the National Academy of Education, and an elected member of the Reading Hall of Fame. She is recipient of the Oscar Causey Award for Distinguished Contributions in Literacy Research from the Literacy Research Association (2022); the Senior Career Distinguished Scholar Award from the National Council of Research on Language and Literacy (2023), and the John J. Gumperz Memorial Award for Distinguished Lifetime Scholarship from the American Educational Research Association (2024) She also was recognized among Crain’s Detroit Business’ Notable Leaders in Higher Education in 2023.

In September, 2018, together with several partners, including the Detroit Public Schools Community District and the Kresge Foundation, Moje announced the Marsal Family School of Education’s participation in the development of a cradle-to-career education system in a northwest Detroit neighborhood, on the Marygrove College campus. This vertically aligned education continuum now supports the learning of children and families from before birth through age 5 as well as grades K-2, 9-12, and postsecondary educator preparation. The schools will continue to add one grade per year and until they have a comprehensive prenatal through grade 12 set of offerings for children and families in Detroit.

More information can be found here:  Elizabeth Birr Moje | University of Michigan Marsal Family School of Education

Περισσότερες πληροφορίες και λίστα δημοσιεύσεων: Elizabeth Birr Moje | University of Michigan Marsal Family School of Education

Biography:

Uta Papen is a Professor of Literacy Studies at Lancaster University and co-director of the Lancaster Literacy Research Centre (https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/literacy-research-centre/). Trained as a social anthropologist, her research is located at the interface between social anthropology, education, applied linguistics and policy studies. The core aim of her work is to critically examine the teaching and learning of literacy, for adults and children, including policy and practice, as well as the link between research and policy.  She has researched the role of phonics in primary literacy education, has helped develop (English) literacy pedagogies for deaf children in India, and, in a very recent project, has looked at storytelling and writing in the context of place-based literacy curricula. She is currently working on a critical analysis of adult literacy policies in the UK, to be published by Routledge. As part of this project, she seeks to understand how research influences policy and she asks what has happened to social practice views of literacy (which appear to be missing from current policies). Uta is committed to a critical, social justice perspective on literacy, using ethnographic and participatory methods, complemented by discourse analysis.

Uta has published widely, on literacy practice, policy and on research methods. She is co-editor of the Routledge Series ‘Literacies’ and ‘Routledge Research in Literacy’.

More information and a list of publications can be found here: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about/people/uta-papen.

Περισσότερες πληροφορίες και λίστα δημοσιεύσεων: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about/people/uta-papen.

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Dr. Panayiota (Pani) Kendeou is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Guy Bond Chair in Reading in the Department of Educational Psychology at the College of Education and Human Development of the University of Minnesota. Dr. Kendeou received her B.A. in Education from the University of Cyprus in 1998, followed by her M.A. (2002) and Ph.D. (2005) in Educational Psychology at the University of Minnesota. She is a former elementary school teacher, and before her current appointment, she held faculty positions at McGill University in Canada and Neapolis University Pafos. At the University of Minnesota, Dr. Kendeou directs the Reading + Learning Lab and co-directs the CEHD Learning Informatics Lab. In her research program, Dr. Kendeou develops theoretical models that explain how students read and learn and uses those models to design and test innovative AI technologies that transform instruction and improve learning. The significance of her approach is in the integration of scientific advancements and technological innovations that improve reading and learning. Her work is disseminated broadly (150+ publications; 300+ presentations at national and international conferences), received numerous grants and awards (~$17M USD in federal grants), and is often featured in national and local media (e.g., KSTP, The Guardian,  MPR News). She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the Psychonomics Society, and the Society for Text and Discourse (ST&D).

Biography:

Stan van Alphen is Head of Sector in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture. He deals with basic skills, STEM and equity at the level of school education, contributing to the implementation of the Action Plan on Basic Skills and the STEM Education Strategic Plan. Stan has worked in the European Commission since 2011, on topics such as youth employment, health systems and monitoring EU education systems. He holds a PhD in political and social sciences from the European University Institute (Florence)