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LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA – Seven students, studying under the Teacher Education and Urban Pedagogy Center of Excellence at Lincoln University, presented their research at the 31st Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum, the largest such meeting of qualitative researchers of education in the world.
The forum was held on Saturday, February 27, 2010 at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE).
The student presenters were: Chrisonne Hollis’11, Calvin Samuel’12, Teyana Smith’10, Christina Minus’11, Candace Sabb’10, Marcus Pressley’10, and Shakuwra Randolph-Ilyaas’10.
The student’s first panel presentation was titled, African-American Pre-Service Teachers in the Urban Classroom: An Auto Ethnographic Exploration of Cultural Differences, which analyzed factors that individual cultures play on education in an urban setting.
Presenters from the first panel included:
Christina Minus, a junior Early Childhood/Elementary Education major
Topic of Choice: Teachers’ Ethnicity in Connection with Urban Youth – An Exploration of Relationship Building
Teyana Smith, a senior and Elementary Education major
Topic of Choice: An Urban-Based Approach Teacher Preparation
Candace Sabb, a senior and Elementary Education major
Topic of Choice: “But These Kids are Smart”: An Auto Ethnographic Exploration of Pre-Conceived Notions from a Former Philadelphia Student
The second panel titled, The Philadelphia Urban Seminar: The HBCU Pre-Service Teacher Experience, focused on various aspects on the urban seminar, mainly the experiences of building relationships with other universities, shattering personal stereotypes, self-reflection on the profession, and the need to teach in an urban area.
Presenters from the second panel included:
Marcus Pressley, a senior Elementary Education major
Topic of Choice: Shattering the Stereotypes: An Auto Ethnography Experience of an African-American Pre-service Teacher.
Shakuwra Randolph-Ilyaas, a senior Elementary Education major
Topic of Choice: Relationships with Other Colleges: Philadelphia Urban Seminar
Calvin Samuel, a sophomore Secondary History Education and Psychology dual major
Topic of Choice: Finding Myself as a Teacher: Self-Reflection of the Profession
Chrisonne Hollis, a junior Elementary Education major
Topic of Choice: “I Should be Here”: An African –American Pre-service Teacher’s Approach to Application.
“My students have been working with me since August getting their research together,” said Dr. Mawhinney, assistant professor of Education, “and all their hard work paid off. “
Mawhinney added “A professor from The College of Charleston stated, ‘This is brave and innovative research you are talking about. As undergraduates to be at this elite conference with faculty and graduate students … is amazing.”
The theme of this year’s forum was “Creativity, Crisis and Qualitative Research: Re-imagining Education in a Changing World.” Conference participants examined the ways in which these social, economic, and technological changes are influencing teaching and learning both inside and outside the classroom.
Featured speakers were H. Samy Alim, a faculty member at Stanford University, whose ethnographic studies focus on street language, culture, and music; Doug Foley, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, whose research centers around American ethnic and race relations and educational policy for ethnic minorities; and Bonny Norton, a professor in the department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia.
Boston College Professor Marilyn Cochran-Smith and Penn GSE Associate Professor Susan Lytle, who co-authored the recent book, Inquiry as Stance: Practitioner Research for the Next Generation, co-presented.
In addition to the plenary speakers, the forum also featured data analysis sessions, in which participants and faculty consultants brainstormed with presenters about data sets.
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Lincoln University – founded in 1854 as the nation’s first Historically Black University – combines the best elements of a liberal arts and sciences-based undergraduate core curriculum and selected graduate programs to meet the needs of those living in a highly technological and global society. The University enrolls approximately 2,500 undergraduate and graduate students.
Internationally recognized for preparing learners and producing world-class leaders in their fields, Lincoln has created five academic Centers of Excellence-programs of distinctions. They are: Lincoln-Barnes Visual Arts, Grand Research Educational Awareness and Training (GREAT) for Minority Health, Mass Communications, Teacher Education and Urban Pedagogy and Business and Information Technology.