{"id":849,"date":"2016-02-11T18:25:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T23:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/11\/education-department-news-fall-2012\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:27:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:27:54","slug":"education-department-news-fall-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/education-department-news-fall-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Education department news, Fall 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven education majors joined professors <strong>George Lipscomb<\/strong> and <strong>Shirley Ritter <\/strong>for a presentation titled \u201cWhat\u2019s Happening in Elementary Schools in New Zealand\u201d September 29 at the South Carolina Council for the Social Studies \u00a0conference in Greenville. The students, Whitney Becker, Morgan Black, Sarah Beth Caldwell, Olivia LeCompte, Maria Morrison, Audrey Neumann and Sarah Odom, were among a group that traveled to New Zealand for three weeks as part of Furman\u2019s May Experience 2012.<\/p>\n<p>A forthcoming book from Peter Lang USA, <em>Becoming and Being a Teacher, Confronting Traditional Norms to Create New Democratic Realities<\/em>, features chapters from education professors <strong>Katie Stover, Scott Henderson<\/strong> and <strong>Mike Svec<\/strong>, and is edited by professor <strong>Paul Thomas<\/strong>. The book is part of the Critical Studies in Democracy and Political Literacy series.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thomas<\/strong> spoke on \u201cPoverty is Destiny: Ignoring the MLK Imperative in Corporate Education Reform\u201d October 18 at the University of Arkansas. His visit was a follow-up to the publication of his recent book, <em>Ignoring Poverty in the U.S.: The Corporate Takeover of Public Education<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stover<\/strong> was a featured presenter during the National Council of Teachers of English 2012 Annual Convention, held in Las Vegas in November. She also participated in a panel discussion on \u201cChildren\u2019s Voices for Social Justice in Preschool and Primary Classrooms.\u201d She has published\u00a0\u201cCan You Hear Us? Using VoiceThread to Publish Primary Students\u2019 Writing\u201d in the\u00a0<em>International Reading Association Technology in Literacy Education Special Interest Group<\/em> newsletter, and \u201cFour Components for Promoting Literacy Engagement in Subject Matter Disciplines\u201d in the\u00a0<em>Middle School Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Lorraine\u00a0DeJong<\/strong> presented \u201cUsing Inter-Generational Learning to Impact Pre-service Teacher Values and Behavior\u201d at the South Carolina Association of Teacher Educators conference September 29 at Coker College in Hartsville. She also presented\u00a0\u201cCreating a Moral Community in the Early Childhood Classroom\u201d October 5 at the Carolina Association for the Education of Young Children conference in Columbia. Junior <strong>Helen Reed<\/strong>, a teacher candidate and Teaching Fellow, attended the conference and served as a full-day volunteer and participant.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shirley Ritter <\/strong>was part of the invited panel on <em>Challenges, Opportunities &amp; Solutions: How Faculty in Small Programs Embrace the Future<\/em> at the Teacher Education Division of the Council for Exceptional Children annual meeting in Grand Rapids, MI on November 8<em>. <\/em> Her presentation was \u201cDoubling your \u2018Bang for your Buck\u2019 (or Weaving Special Education into General Education Courses).\u201d She also presented \u201cChanges in Teacher Preparation at One University: Both Big and Small.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graduate Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two graduate students, <strong>Angela Weisner<\/strong> and <strong>Suzanna Greer<\/strong>, had articles accepted for publication by <em>Reading Matters<\/em>, the journal of the South Carolina State Council of the International Reading Association. Weisner is enrolled in Furman\u2019s literacy program and is an English teacher at Easley High School. Greer, director of language development at Camperdown Academy in Greenville, is enrolled in Furman\u2019s curriculum and instruction program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven education majors joined professors George Lipscomb and Shirley Ritter for a presentation titled \u201cWhat\u2019s Happening in Elementary Schools in New Zealand\u201d September 29 at the South Carolina Council for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}