December 2005

According to the National Science Foundation’s 2004 Doctorate Awards report, the OSU College of Education was in the top 20 doctorate granting institutions.

The OSU Flight Team, the Flying Aggies, placed 2nd overall and dominated the “flying events” at the Regional Competition.  The group had 106 points in the flying events and the nearest competitor had a total score in the 60’s. The OSU Flight Team has been invited to the national competition to be held next spring in Columbus, Ohio.

The School of Teaching and Curriculum Leadership (STCL), the Curriculum Materials Library, and the students in Dr. Suzii Parsons' Foundations of Literacy Class hosted a Sequoyah Book Award Celebration on November 16 in the Curriculum Materials Library. The Sequoyah Book Award is an Oklahoma-based children's choice award that honors high quality books for children or young adults. Each year the Oklahoma Library Association identifies a list of quality selections to be read and voted on by Oklahoma children; the winners are announced each February. The OSU celebration was designed to educate students and faculty about the award and to encourage reading of these outstanding books. Events scheduled throughout the day included book talks by faculty members, readers' theater presentations featuring Sequoyah nominated books, a book walk (like a cake walk, but highlighting books and offering books as prizes), and book bingo (again, with books as prizes).

Sylvia Muse with her poster presentation at the Rocky Mountain Educational Research Association Annual Meeting.

COE hosted the Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Educational Research Association, Oct. 21-22. This regional conference for research presentations was held at the Wes Watkins Center in Stillwater. Over 40 COE faculty and staff participated in this event. Faculty included: Darlinda Cassel, Kathryn Castle, Gary Conti, Cheryl Evans, Associate Dean Adrienne Hyle, Patricia Jordan, Mary Kutz, Janice Miller, Mwavita Mwarumba, Teri Nemmers, Juliana Utley, and Miriam Ward. COE students included Karen Bale, Linda Barron, Sharon Brown, Celeste Campbell, William Carroll, Jovette Dew, Tena Fry, Starla Halcomb, Kitty Hankins, Kay Kautz, Chin-Huey Lee, Dana Lindon, Charla Long, Pamela Louderback, Mary Malaska, James May, Leslie McClellon, Sylvia Muse, Chris Ray, Linda Rider, Susan Shaw, Kathy Siebold, Endang Nina Sugiarti, Jerilyn Thorman, Linnea Van Eman, and Janet Wansick.

Miriam Lo Presto, elementary education major, was selected as an OSU Senior of Significance. The Senior of Significance Award recognizes students who have excelled in scholarship, leadership and service to campus and community and have brought distinction to Oklahoma State University. These students were honored during a reception held November 17th at the ConocoPhillips OSU Alumni Center. In the spring semester these honorees will be able to update their credentials and interview for selection as one of OSU's Outstanding Seniors.

Linda Abner, SES, was officially recognized at the Association of School Business Officials International (ASBOI) 91st Annual Meeting in Boston on October 20-24, 2005. She received a plaque for her leadership in revising ASBOI’s Professional Standards and Ethics Document.

Phi Kappa Phi, the honors society, inducted three new members from the counseling psychology department: Alicia Irvin, Amy Luna, and Kimberly Samuels.

Kerri Kearney, SES, was selected as “faculty/staff member of the month for September at OSU” for her work as faculty associate for Bennett Hall.  The selection was based upon nominations from the community facilitators and other staff of the OSU residence halls.

Dr. Lowell Caneday, SAHEP, Leisure Studies, was sworn in as a new member of the Board of Trustees for the National Recreation and Park Association at the national congress in San Antonio.

Dr. Deb Jordan, SAHEP, Leisure Studies, completed her tenure as President of the Society of Park and Recreation Educators (SPRE) in October.

Dr. Chris Cashel, SAHEP, Leisure Studies, continues in the final year of her three-year term as a member of the board of the Society of Park and Recreation Educators.

Dr. Jerry Jordan, SAHEP, Leisure Studies, was elected to the board of the National Therapeutic Recreation Society and began a three-year term in that leadership role in October.

David Rogers, a master’s degree student in Leisure Studies, presented a session on extreme sports at the Congress of the National Recreation and Park Association in San Antonio. David works for Outdoor Adventure and provides leadership in challenge recreation at Oklahoma State University.

Young Hoang, a doctoral student in Leisure Studies, received the Oklahoma Recreation and Park Society scholarship at the state meeting in November.

Publications

Kerri Kearney & Judith Mathers (2005, October).  Not without consequence:  The long term impacts of decreasing arts in the schools.  Issues and ideas presentation at the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum, Austin, TX.

G. Zhao (2005).  Playing as Adaptation: Layered Selfhood and Self-regard in cultural Contexts.  Culture & Psychology.  Sage Publications, London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Dehli, pp. 5-27. (February 2005) and “Governing the Soul” through Remolding the Self: The American Approach.  American Journal of Education, 111(2),  pp. 245-266.

Presentations

Stacy Otto, SES,(October 2005).  American Educational Studies Association Annual Meeting, Charlottesville, VA: “Young, Black and Male: Why Are We Transfixed by the Educational Redemption Narrative?” and  “Reframing Program Evaluation: An Equitable Deal or Just Another Broken Promise to Teachers?” 

The following COE students and former COE students presented at the International Society for the Scientific Study of Subjectivity (I4S) – Q Conference,October 6-8, 2005, in Vancouver, Canada:
 
Long, C., Shaw, S., Thorman, J., Van Eman, L., and Montgomery, D. A Q Methodological Study of Teachers Perceptions on Integrating the Arts into Curriculum.
 
Thorman, J., Van Eman, L., and Montgomery, D. Teachers’ Perceptions of Professional Development.
 
Cathey, J. Teacher and Parent Perception of Play  (Dr. Cathey is a graduate of the Educational Psychology PhD Program)
 
Ray, C. Perceptions of College Faculty, Staff and Students Concerning Methods and Approaches Enhancing Character Development of College Students.
 
Morella, K. Teachers’ Perceptions of Students Whose Mothers are Incarcerated
 
Edgington, R., and Montgomery, D. The Perceptions of Musicians toward the Academic Study of Music  (Dr. Edgington is a graduate of the Higher Education Program at OSU and the Registrar at NOC).

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