Congratulations to these faculty members of the Department of Educational Technology, Research and Assessment!
David Walker, associate dean for Academic Affairs, and ETRA Professor Tom Smith both received the 2021 “Beyond the Call” award from the Mid-Western Education Research Association (MWERA).
The award recognizes members who consistently and over a substantial period of time (more than 20 years) participate in all aspects of the annual conference and the MWERA organization in terms of membership; conference proposal review; presentation of peer-reviewed research; graduate student and early-professional mentoring; service on organizational committees; being elected as MWERA officers; and being on the MWERA board.
MWERA rarely confers its Beyond the Call award because of the required longevity and active engagement over that time, making it an impressive feat that two faculty members from the same university were chosen in the same year.
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Laura Ruth Johnson, associate professor in the Department of Educational Technology, Research and Assessment, was awarded a Spencer Foundation Conference Grant as co-PI with Jonathan Rosa (PI) of Stanford University to design, organize and implement “Community as a Campus: Decolonial Praxis and Chicago’s Paseo Boricua.”
The conference will bring together educators, organizers, youth, community residents and researchers to share, critically reflect on and synthesize efforts toward building alternative institutions, enacting educational justice and transforming communities.
Johnson also published a book chapter: Dharmashi, P., Johnson, L.R., & J. Sharkey (2021). Critical community literacies in teacher education. In J. Zacher Pandya, R.A. Mora, J. Alford, N.A. Golden, & R. Santiago De Roock (Eds). The Handbook of critical literacies.
