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The Department of Educational Theory and Practice (ETAP) is a vibrant and inclusive community of students and faculty. In this community, students and faculty dream and challenge, create and examine, test and implement the best of what education can be to meet the contemporary learning needs of society wherever those arise.

ETAP faculty have built working relations with schools, universities, businesses, corporations, and government agencies locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally.

The Department offers programs for advanced study and research in Language and Literacy, Instructional Design and Technology, Mathematics and Science education, Teaching and Learning, and Curriculum and Instruction.

    Dr. Peter Shea of the Department of Educational Theory and Practice
    will be recognized as a Sloan-C Fellow at the 17th Annual International
    Conference on Online Learning in November 2011. This fellowship recognizes
    individuals who have made significant, national contributions to the field of
    online teaching and learning. Professor Shea will be recognized for outstanding
    research that has advanced understanding of online learning and for noteworthy
    contributions to the field of online education.


    ETAP FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

    Our full-time faculty members engage in numerous national and international publication and service activities. Along with their own publication activity, thay serve as reviewers for conference proposals, journal manuscripts, and textbooks. As one representation of this professional service, the following list indicates past and current work as editorial, advisory and/or review board members

    EDITORIAL, ADVISORY and/or REVIEW BOARD MEMBERS

    Bogazici University Journal (Kouba)
    Changing English (Applebee)
    Computers in Human Behavior (Bangert-Drowns)
    Educational Technology Research and Development
    (Bangert-Drowns)
    English Journal (Agee)
    International Journal of Multilingualism (Kecskes)
    Journal of Intercultural Pragmatics (Kecskes - Editor)
    Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (Shea – Assoc. Editor)
    Journal of Literacy Research (Agee)
    Journal of Research on Technology in Education
    (Bangert-Drowns)
    Journal of Writing Assessment (Yagelski)
    Language Learning and Technology (Meskill)
    Reading Research Quarterly (Agee)
    Rehabilitation and Exceptionality (Haase)
    Research in the Teaching of English (Agee, Applebee)
    Written Communication (Applebee)
    Advisory Board member for the journal _English Education (Yagelski)

    FACULTY RECOGNITION AND AWARDS

    Career Awards

    Applebee – Reading Hall of Fame

    Langer – Reading Hall of Fame, Presidential Award for Lifetime Career Achievement (Hofstra University), Excellence in the Pursuit of Knowledge (State University of New York), Honorary Doctorate (Uppsala University, Sweden)

    Excellence in Research

    Agee- American Educational Research Association (Division K) Kappa Delta Pi Research Award

    Applebee - University at Albany and State University of New York Chancellor’s Award

    Langer - Richard H. Meade Award for Outstanding Research, National Council of Teachers of English, University at Albany and State University of New York Chancellor’s Award



    Early Career Award

    Bangert-Drowns – Hinsdale Scholar Award for Scholarship and Professional Promise, University of Michigan

    Herzig – National Science Foundation

    Wilcox – Faculty Diversity Award-SUNY

    Scholarship Awards

    Langer - Distinguished Professor (State University of New York ), Distinguished Professor (University of Trondheim, Norway), Distinguished Visiting Scholar (Turku University, Finland) and Invited Professor (Swedish Research Council)

    Teaching Awards

    Herzig – University of Wisconsin

    Yagelski – Purdue University and University at Albany

    Leadership Awards

    Shea – EDUCAUSE Award for Systematic Progress in Teaching & Learning

    Awards for Outstanding Articles/Books/Software

    Applebee – Conference on English Education, National Council of Teachers of English

    Bangert-Drowns – Journal of Educational Research

    Kecskes – Publishers’ Excellence

    Kecskes - Situation-Bound Utterances in L1 and L2 Berlin: Morton de Gruyter

    Kouba – Learning Magazine

    Langer – Albert J. Harris Award, International Reading Association

    Rodgers – American Educational Research Association – Division K

    Fellows

    Applebee – Rockefeller Foundation

    Kecskes - Rockefeller Foundation

    Kecskes - Mitteleuropa Foundation, Bolzano, Italy

    Langer – APA, Natl. Conference on Research in English, Rockefeller Foundation, Distinguished Benton Fellow (University of Chicago)

    Spencer Fellows/Grants

    Herzig

    Distinguished Service Positions

    Bangert-Drowns – Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, UAlbany School of Education

    Bowman – Regent from the Third Judicial District for the State University of New York

    Awards/Recognition for Work as a Graduate Student

    Agee – Promising Researcher Award (National Council of Teachers of English) and Outstanding Student Research Award (Georgia Educational Research Association)

    Applebee – Promising Researcher Award (National Council of Teachers of English)

     

     

    Student Accomplishments


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    The Department of Educational Theory and Practice
    School of Education
    University at Albany
    1400 Washington Ave.
    Albany, NY 12222, USA
    Phone: (518) 442-5020
    FAX: (518) 442-5008

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