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DR. BUSH has spent several years coaching and teaching in K-12 schools as well as at the higher education level, and has prepared teachers and coaches for K-12 schools.  Her research has focused largely on physical activity among adolescent females.  This interest is reflected in her dissertation, which examined the physical activity experiences of five African American adolescent girls.  She has also been an active athlete herself, having completed five marathons.

DR. FIVES is returning to the East Coast after three years on the faculty at Texas Tech University.  She is an educational psychologist whose research interests lie at the intersection of educational psychology and teacher education.  She has conducted research on teachers’ knowledge, beliefs, and sense of efficacy, as well as on the role of persuasion to foster conceptual change in students.  Her research is grounded in her work with schools, most recently reflected in her participation in developing two professional development high schools in Texas.

DR. GOLDSTEIN joins the Family and Child Studies faculty after a one-year post-doctoral fellowship and one year as a faculty member at the University of New Orleans.  Her scholarship is in the area of social development and social-cognitive development, with a focus on peer relationships from childhood to early adulthood—in particular, relational aggression. 

DR. JACOBSON has had varied experiences teaching, working in community agencies, and conducting research related to adult education, adult literacy development, and K-12 immigrant education.  In his scholarship, he seeks to make the link between educational research, classroom practice, and the lives of students outside school.  He is co-author, with Victoria Purcell-Gates and Sophie Degener, of a book entitled Print Literacy Development: Uniting Cognitive and Social Practice Theories, published in 2004 by Harvard University Press.

DR. LEWIS comes to Montclair from UCLA, where he recently completed his Ph.D. in Philosophy of Education in the School of Social Sciences and Comparative Education.  He served as a teaching assistant in several courses at UCLA, and had previously taught English as a second language and art history.  He takes an interdisciplinary approach to research, bringing together sociological and philosophical perspectives and methods.  His research interests include school discipline as a theoretical category and a real-world practice.

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DR. OLIVA-FLEMMING joins the Counseling faculty at Montclair from the University of Central Florida.  In addition to serving as a university faculty member, she has been a classroom teacher, school counselor, therapist, and administrator for mental health agencies.  Her research interests include counseling education and supervision and the role of exercise as a counseling intervention.  Dr. Oliva-Flemming is also an athlete, having run the Boston Marathon in 2003.

 

DR. PRICE is a scholar of family gerontology with an established research agenda pertaining to women and retirement.  Her dissertation was published by Garland Press, entitled Women and Retirement: The Unexplored Transition (1998).  She comes to Montclair after five years on the faculty at the Ohio State University.  At OSU, in addition to her faculty responsibilities, she served as the Extension State Gerontology Specialist, conducting numerous in-service activities across the state as part of a large outreach project.

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DR. RENFRO-MICHEL comes to New Jersey from the South.  She recently earned her doctorate from Mississippi State University in Community Counseling.  In 2005-06, she was on the faculty at Morehead State University (KY), where she taught several classes that combined on-line and face-to-face instruction.  She has experience as a professional counselor, a supervisor of counselors, and a counseling program administrator.  Her research interests are in attachment and supervision as well as child and adult attachment difficulties.

DR. McCOTTER joins the Montclair faculty in Educational Leadership, having been on the faculty at Millersville University (PA) for the past seven years.  As a result of her experience in public schools as well as in higher education, she has developed broad and deep understandings of the preparation of educators.  In recent years, she has been working intensively with teachers as well as with principals and superintendents.  Her research has focused on the professional growth of both pre-service and in-service educators.

DR. SILVERA received her Ph.D. from Yale University in Public Health, with a concentration in Chronic Disease Epidemiology.  She has experience teaching, developing a public health curriculum, and working in health-related agencies.  Her considerable research experience includes an ongoing project at Albert Einstein College of Medicine for which she is analyzing data from an intervention with 89,000 Canadian women focusing on dietary and lifestyle behaviors and cancer outcomes.