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AQR Faculty Members

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AQR Faculty Members

The following faculty are members of the Academy for Qualitative Research at UNC Charlotte. (If you want your research information listed on this website, please submit the following form: Faculty Research Interests.)

Leigh Ausband, Ed.D.

Department of Reading & Elementary Education 

Current Research Interests:

  • Barriers to integrating technology into the curriculum, especially on the district level
  • Relationship of instructional technology to curriculum
  • Instructional technology and teacher education

Methodological Interests:

  • Case study

Curriculum Vitae

 

Leslie Cook, Ph.D.

Department of Middle, Secondary and K-12 Education

Current Research Interests:

  • Teacher recruitment and retention in high-needs schools

  •  Adolescent self-concept development

  • Multiple composing processes in the English/Language Arts classroom
     

Methodological Interests:

  • Narrative Inquiry

  • Case study methodology

  • Ethnography of communication
     

Curriculum Vitae

 

Christine S. Davis, Ph.D.

Department of Communication Studies
 

Current Research Interests:

  • Disability/mental illness and communication
  • End-of-life communication
  • Mental health literacy
  • Family communication

Methodological Interests:

  • Narrative ethnography
  • Critical ethnography
  • Autoethnography
  • Discourse analysis
     

Curriculum Vitae

 

Brian Kissel

Department of Reading & Elementary Education

Current Research Interests:

  • The influence of social interactions on writing acquisition
  • Pre-kindergarten meaning-making in writing
  • K-6 writing instruction and development
  • Teacher perceptions of writing and writing instruction

Methodological Interests:

  • Case Study
  • Ethnography
  • Interpretivism

Curriculum Vitae

 

 

Drew Polly, Ph.D.

Department of Reading & Elementary Education

Current Research Interests:

  • How learner-centered professional development programs impact teachers’ instructional practices and student learning outcomes. My current participants are elementary mathematics’ teachers.

  • How teachers’ instructional practices align with their espoused practices and beliefs about teaching and learning.

  • Factors and barriers associated with teachers’ integration of technology in elementary mathematics classrooms.

Methodological Interests:

  • Case study

  • Cross-case analysis

  • Using videos of classroom teaching as a data source

Curriculum Vitae

 

Lan Quach, Ph.D.

Department of Middle, Secondary and K-12 Education

 

Current Research Interests:

  • Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Identity Development in Immigrant Children

  • Critical Multicultural Education

  • Teacher Efficacy and Diverse Learners

Methodological Interests:

  • Autoethnography/Reflexive Ethnography

  • Life History Research

Curriculum Vitae

 

Sarah Ramsey, Ph.D.

Department of Reading & Elementary Education

 

Current Research Interests:

  • Inquiry-based teaching and learning

  • Science teacher education

Methodological Interests:

  • Phenomenological inquiry

  • Narrative inquiry (particularly autobiography)

Curriculum Vitae

 

Clifton Scott, Ph.D.

Department of Communication Studies

 

Current Research Interests:

Applied organizational communication research:

  • risk communication and occupational safety
  • emotion management in human service work
  • gendered organizational risk management
  • organizing for high reliability
  • gender identity and the appraisal of danger

Methodological Interests:

Organizational communication theory and methods: 

  • identities, identification, and organizing
  • power, discourse and the formation of gender, race, and class identities in the workplace
  • organizational socialization
  • critical discourse analysis
  • qualitative research methods

Curriculum Vitae

 

Bruce Taylor, Ph.D.

Department of Reading & Elementary Education

 

 

Current Research Interests:

  • The languages and literacies of marginalized adolescents
  • School and community contexts for supporting language and literacy learning of marginalized adolescents.

Methodological Interests:

  • Sociocultural perspectives on language and learning

  • Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)

Curriculum Vitae

 

Chuang Wang, Ph.D.

Department of Educational Leadership 

Current Research Interests:

  • Case studies of children learning English as a second language, specifically, student beliefs such as efficacy and the use of self-regulated learning behaviors such as language learning strategies.

Curriculum Vitae

 

AQR Faculty Publications

The following are publications by faculty members of AQR that are examples of qualitative research or address qualitative methodology:

Furman, R., Langer, C. L., Sanchez, T. W., & Negi, N. J. (2007). A qualitative study of immigration policy and practice dilemmas for social work students. Journal of Social Work Education, 43(1), 133-146.

Furman, R., & Negi, N. (2007). Social work practice with transnational Latino populations. International Social Work, 50(1), 107-112.

Furman, R., Shears, J., & Badinelli, M. (2007). Mexican men and their fathers: Data re-representation through the research poem. Journal of Poetry Therapy, 20(3), 141-151.

Furman, R. (2006). A qualitative study of social development paradoxes in Guatemala using the research poem. Journal of Comparative Social Welfare, 22(1), 37-48

Furman, R., Langer, C. Davis, C. S., Gallardo, H. P., Kulkarni, S. (2007). Expressive, research and reflective poetry as qualitative inquiry: A study of adolescent identity. Qualitative Research, 5(3), 301-315.

Furman, R. (2006). Poetic forms and structures in qualitative health research. Qualitative Health  Research, 16(4), 560-566.

Lietz, C., Langer, C. L., & Furman, R. (2006). Establishing rigor in qualitative research in social work: Implications from a study regarding spirituality. Qualitative Social Work: Research and Practice, 5(4), 441-458.

Shoenberg, N. E., & Shenk, D. (2007). Food for thought: Nourishing the publication of qualitative research. The Journal of Applied Gerontology, 26 (1), 4-16.

Wang, C. (2007). Self-efficacy beliefs and self-regulated learning strategies: From the perspectives of a first grade English language learner. Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2 (2), 14-28.

Wang, C., & Pape, S. (2007). A Probe into Three Chinese Boys’ Self-Efficacy Beliefs Learning English as a Second Language. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 21, 364-377.

Wang, C., Lo, Y., Xu, Y., Wang. Y., & Porfeli, E. (2007). Constructing the search for a job in academia from the perspectives of self-regulated learning strategies and social cognitive career theory. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 70, 574-589.

Wang, C., & Pape, S. (2005). Self-efficacy and self-regulation in learning English as a second language. The CATESOL Journal, 17(1), 76-90.

Warren-Findlow, J. (2006). Weathering: Stress and heart disease in African American women living in Chicago. Qualitative Health Research, 16(2): 221-237.

 
 
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