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“I Go to School Six Days a Week”: The Role of Cultural and Religious Practices Within Hybrid Turkish-American Communities in Supporting Academic and Socioemotional Growth, Childhood Education (2012)
Review of the book: Standing on the outside looking in: Underrepresented students’ experiences in advanced degree programs by Mary F. Howard-Hamilton et al. (Eds.), Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education: An International Journal (2012)
Teachers reclaiming their voices in student learning and initiating their own professional growth: Suggestions for the Obama administration, The hope for audacity: Practical applications for a democratic platform (2012)
Teaching “Other People’s Children” in Obama Era: Challenges and promises, The hope for audacity: Confronting the slippery slope of multicultural education (2012)
Being Muslim and American: The Voices of Turkish Immigrant Children, Educational Studies Faculty Presentations (2011)
This presentation explores the ways 15 Turkish immigrant children negotiated their religious identities in schooling...
Using Case Studies as a Way to Teach Theoretical Concepts in Child Development and Education, Educational Studies Faculty Presentations (2011)
In this qualitative study, I explore preservice teachers’ perspectives on case study assignments. Students found...
"How Do I Fit?” Turkish Immigrant Children Navigating Social Relationships in Schooling Contexts, Educational Studies Faculty Presentations (2011)
Exploring Continuities and Discontinuities for Teacher Candidates Between University and Early Childhood Classrooms (with Laurie Katz and Judith Green), Educational Studies Faculty Presentations (2011)
Education of Young Burmese Refugees in Midwestern United States, Educational Studies Faculty Publications (2011)
Thinking about the Earth, Sun and Moon: Urban Second Graders as Investigators., Educational Studies Faculty Presentations (2010)
This study strove for the application of inquiry based learning based on the principles of...
3D Visualization in Elementary Education Astronomy: Teaching Urban Second Graders about Sun, Earth, and the Moon (with Beomjin Kim and Jeffrey A. Nowak), Communications in Computer and Information Science (2010)
This research-in-progress hypothesizes that urban second graders can have an early understanding about the shape...
Looking at School from the House Window: Learning from Turkish-American Parents’ Experiences with Early Elementary Education in the United States, Early Childhood Education Journal (2010)
This study is an in-depth investigation of the perspectives of Turkish immigrant parents on their...
Third Spaces as Methodological Possibilities: Reflections of a Researcher Moving Beyond, Educational Studies Faculty Presentations (2010)
Rethinking Third Space: Turkish Parents and Children Negotiating Culture, Identity and Schooling, Educational Studies Faculty Presentations (2010)
Carving a Space for Themselves: Evolving Roles and Perspectives in Supervising Pre-Service Teachers, Educational Studies Faculty Presentations (2009)