CEHD Research in Press: January 2025

NEWS 

Drs. Diana D’Amico Pawlewicz and Caitlin Brecklin had a book accepted for publication at Harvard Education Press, entitled “Danger Zones?: How the Politics of Fear Shapes School Safety.” This volume brings together leading researchers from around the country to examine how fear and conceptions of danger and safety are formed beyond the schools and shape public education in the United States. In addition to being book co-editors, we are also each chapter’s authors. Divided into three sections, Danger Zones explores how the politics of fear informs how we think about school kids’ physical safety, intellectual safety, and moral safety – and most of all, the threats they face. In exploring who is considered in danger and who is considered a danger, the chapters of this book together reveal how conceptions of race, economic status, and gender are not only politicized but used as a tool to shape education policy and reform.

Dr. Lee Ann Williams had an article published in The Conversation, “Why natural disasters hit harder in rural school districts.” Dr. Williams was also inaugurated as the new National Rehabilitation Counseling Association (NRCA) president.

Dr. Virginia Clinton-Lisell had an article published in The Conversation, “Here’s what happens when teachers tailor their lessons to students’ individual learning styles”

Robert Monnet (CEHD Grants Preparation Officer) and Gabriel Salander (CEHD Post Award Officer and Grants Analyst) attended training from the National Council for University Research Administrators (NCURA) in Charleston, South Carolina. Robert attended Level II: Sponsored Projects Administration, and Gabriel attended Level I: Fundamentals of Sponsored Projects Administration.

Drs. Joshua and Cheryl Hunter received a grant from the Myra Foundation ($10,000). The grant sponsors the Gro.UND Family Farm Camp, which will serve approximately 100 children, youth, and adults from Grand Forks County over weekend sessions at the Gro.UND Learning Gardens on UND’s campus in September 2025. Each session will provide hands-on garden activities that will address sustainability and local resiliency, local foods, environmental justice and community engagement. Participants will take home a portion of what is harvested.

Muhammad Salahuddin (EFR PhD student) published his first peer-reviewed academic article, a systematic review entitled “University faculty research competence: A systematic literature review of core components, distinctions, and measures” in the International Journal of Educational Methodology.

Mohammad Johurul Islam (IDT PhD student) interviews with the New Nation (one of the leading daily newspapers of Bangladesh) regarding technology transformation into legal education in Bangladesh (News link and LinkedIn post, Page 3). Johurul has also been elected the GSA Advocate to the Organizational Training and Performance Division of the AECT from the University of North Dakota for the year 2025.

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Publications

Heesch, A. J., Otremba, J. R., Morgan, R. M., Montgomery, B. M., Poolman, M. A., Schindler, G. D., Fitzgerald, J. S. (In press). Bioelectrical Impedance Spectroscopy Measuring the Magnitude of Body Water Compartment Changes Pre- and Post-Game in Collegiate Ice Hockey Players. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research.

Newton, C., & Panicker, D. (2024). Black Lives are Beautiful: Countering Anti-Black Messaging Through PhotoVoice and Self-Help Reading. Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/15401383.2024.2439822

Newton, C., Steele, J. M., Jaber, N., & Pace, A. (2024). The cross-racial training approach: A practical training framework. Training and Education in Professional Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/tep0000497

Chinkondenji, P. & Chinkondenji, A. (2024). Partial Stories: Maternal Death from Six Angles: By Claire L. Wendland Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2022, 384 pp., $35 (Paperback), ISBN 9780226816883 (paperback). The Journal of Development Studies, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2024.2444016

Christ, T., Cho, H., Chiu, M. M., Bakhoda, I., Klebba, H. (2025). Effects of emergent bilingual students’ and their teacher’s talk-turns on students’ comprehension during read-aloud discussions. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 39(1), 151–172. https://doi.org/10.1080/02568543.2023.2301083

Chinkondenji, P. (2025). ‘Having a child is not a barrier:’ an African-feminist perspective in (un)making schooling for pregnant learners and re-integration of student mothers. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2025.2452472

Salahuddin, M., & Stupnisky, R. H. (In press, Jan 17, 2025). University faculty research competence: A systematic literature review of core components, distinctions, and measures. International Journal of Educational Methodology.

Rutten, L., Garin, E., Fleming, K., & Khatun, R. (2024). A bibliography of articles featuring Professional Development Schools and similar school-university partnerships published in School-University Partnerships. National Association for School-University Partnerships. http://www.nasup.org/

Rutten, L., Garin, E., Fleming, K., & Khatun, R. (2024). A bibliography of articles featuring Professional Development Schools and similar school-university partnerships published in PDS Partners: Bridging Research to Practice. National Association for School-University Partnerships. http://www.nasup.org/

Presentations

Knutson, M. (2025, accepted). Taking the Magic out of Magic: 17lands.com and the Encroachment of Big Data in Analog Games. Paper accepted for presentation at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.

Rawlins Williams, L.A. (2024, November) Navigating the global impact of mental health: Strategies for enhancing well-being in educational environments and supporting educators.  17th Annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI), Seville (Spain), November 11-13, 2024.

Rawlins Williams, L.A.  & Williams, T. R. (2024, November) Navigating a new world: Harnessing AI to transform and support undergraduate education.  17th Annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI), Seville (Spain), November 11-13, 2024.

Ramos-Mattoussi, F. S., Chinkondenji, P. & Jeongmin Lee (2025, March). Arts-based research for global community engagement: Showcasing the development and application of the FotoDialogo method. Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Chicago, IL.

Chinkondenji, P. & Kalaba, R. (2025, March). “Digital Ubuntu”: Engaging gender justice, research and technology through an African Indigenous perspective. Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Chicago, IL.

Chamdimba, E. & Chinkondenji, P. (2025, March). Participatory visual methodologies in a digital world: A critical awareness of Ubuntucentric approaches in educational research in Malawi. Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Chicago, IL.

Chinkondenji, P. Hara, A. & Nyirenda, M.B. (2025, March 2025). Policing, relocation, and encampment: A critical analysis of refugee discourse in Malawi. Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Chicago, IL.

Olateru-Olagbegi, S., & Hung, W. (2025, April). Investigations of the effects of microlearning in the workplace. Poster to be presented at AERA 2025 Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, April 23-27, 2025.

Hung, W., Zha, S., Tomaso, B., Gong, N. (2025, April). One stone two birds: dual-function cognitive tool approach with AI in PjBL. Paper to be presented at AERA 2025 Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, April 23-27, 2025.

Hung, W., Morin, P. & Robinson, J. (2025, March). Cultivating Indigenous Students’ STEM Career Interest with Culturally Responsive Project-based Learning (CR-PjBL): The Tate Topa Tribal School Experience.  Paper to be presented in 2025 ISK RIG Administrative Session: Reframing Science and Engineering: Teachers’ strategies for indigenizing STEM education. NARST Annual International Conference, National Harbor, MD, March 23-26, 2025.