Student Research
MAKING THE GRADE
Penn GSE Students travel the globe and scour the city to study education.
Featured research:
- Gender and Education in South Africa: In a nation with a history of racial segregation, what role do gender and class play in access to education? Diane Eynon, a 2010 graduate of the Executive Doctorate in Higher Education program, explores education equity in South Africa.
Recent student research includes:
- A look at HIV/AIDS prevention efforts in Africa: Western countries and agencies have been bringing HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment programs to Africa for years. But do they really work? How effective are these programs, and how do we know?
- The use of Spanish and Guarani in Paraguay: How are Spanish and Guarani (an indigenous language) used and mixed, and in what contexts? Has the national program of bilingual education changed these rules? What ethnographic or social conclusions can we draw from Guarani/Spanish language use patterns?
- South Korea is requiring that English be taught only in English: How does this approach affect students and teachers?
- College education is becoming more of a necessity: How do state-level policies affect American students' access to and completion of higher education?
- Teaching classes in English is common around the world, but is almost unheard of in Ukraine: What happens when a university in Ukraine starts teaching some classes in English?
- Researchers are drawing on cognitive science to create a new middle-school science curriculum: Can what we know about how we think be used to improve instruction?
- A group of American high school students spend three weeks in Zambia in a service-learning program: How does their participation in this program enhance our understanding of the construction of civic identity?
- What nest? How can we navigate transitions after high school?: An action research study supports seniors in an urban public school in exploring their futures.
Penn GSE students: Check out your opportunities for conducting research.