Faculty

This is just a taste of the many ways in which our faculty members are engaged abroad. Click a region of the map below for a quick list of our faculty who are working there.

Africa

GSE faculty and associated faculty are involved in a variety of research projects in eleven African countries, from Ethiopia to South Africa.  In Ghana and Nigeria, for example, GSE professor Dan Wagner is working with the Internatial Literacy Initiative to improve literacy levels and instructional practices...  Read more

Americas

In the Americas, GSE faculty are active in projects from Argentina to Canada. In the Andean Highlands, Dr. Nancy Hornberger is continuing a years-long project on Quechua-speaking students and teachers; Dr. Sharon Ravitch is working with family therapists in Ecuador... Read more

Asia

GSE faculty projects and research include advising the governments of Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam on educational reform; ethnographic studies of India's southwestern Kerala state; and the complexities of English language instruction in Japan and other Asian countries... Read more

Australia and New Zealand

GSE's involvement in research in Australia and New Zealand continues to develop. Adolescent literacy forms the focus of Dr. Kathy Schultz's work in Australia; Dr. Nancy Hornberger has worked with the Ministry of Education there to improve the integration of the Maori language into children's schooling and daily lives. Several cohorts of GSE students...  Read more

Europe

From Spain to Sweden, GSE faculty have established strong ties with partner institutions across Europe. Since 2001, the Consortium for Policy Research in Education has held several education roundtables with the Institut national de recherche pédagogique at France's Université de Lyon...  Read more

Middle East

In the Middle East, GSE faculty work encompasses topics from multiple literacies to conflict resolution. Dr. Sharon Ravitch is working with marginalized populations in Afghanistan; Dr. Sigal Ben-Porath's research has focused on conflict resolution and the idea of "belligerent citizenship," the changes in the social compact that accompany war and large-scale conflict...  Read more