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The University of Toledo
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3100W Gillham Hall, MS 914
Toledo, Ohio 43606
Faculty Mentors
Colleen Fitzpatrick, Ph.D.
Areas of research interest: Exploring the complex and interactional role the context of a classroom, school, district or state plays in how teachers and students experience teaching and learning social studies in grades 6-12. Within this, she has a particular focus on how teachers teach and students learn about religion in social studies classrooms.
Lynne Hamer, Ph.D.
Areas of research interest: Historical foundations of education/historical intersections between schooling and marginalized populations; life writing/educational biography and oral history.
Edward Janak, Ph.D.
Areas of research interest: Historical foundations of education/historical intersections between schooling and marginalized populations; life writing/educational biography and oral history; pop culture/mass culture and education.
Natasha Johnson, Ph.D.
Areas of research interest: Chemistry education; multicultural science education; STEM interest, access, and persistence.
Revathy Kumar Ph.D.
Areas of research interest: Social and cultural processes involved in constructing a sense of self and identity among adolescents and young adults in culturally diverse societies, the role of teachers, teacher-education programs, schools, communities, and families in facilitating minority and immigrant adolescents’ development, learning, and motivation.
Sekhar Pindiprolu, Ph.D.
Areas of research interest: Teaching and learning strategies, computer-assisted instruction, designing instruction, program evaluations.
Dale T. Snauwaert, Ph.D.
Areas of research interest: Justice, education for peace and justice, democracy, democratic education.
Robert A. Schultz, Ph.D.
Areas of research interest: Gifted/Talented education; Social and Emotional Needs; Creativity; Curriculum Theory and Philosophical Foundations of Education; Assessment and Evaluation; Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research Methods; Parents and Parenting.
Mark Templin, Ph.D.
Areas of research interest: Science instruction, science teacher education, activity theory.
Michael Toland, Ph.D.
Areas of research interest: Sense of belonging, developing surveys, undergraduate research, applied statistics, applied measurement.
