Research Areas
Explore the research areas that our faculty study in the Graduate School of Education.
School and Community Partnerships
Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: Curriculum and Instruction; Access and Equity; English Education; Curriculum and Instruction; Equity and Poverty; Educational technology; School and Community Partnerships; Multimodality; Qualitative Research Methods
Clinical Assistant Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: My research explores the (re)production of inequality in and through schooling. I study the preparation of teachers, community-engaged teacher preparation, and school transition processes and how they are used to seek and maintain advantage.
Assistant Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Cognition; Design and Analysis of Longitudinal Research; Mathematics Education; School and Community Partnerships; Universal Design
Assistant Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy
Research Areas: school district policy, school boards, state departments of education, organizational theory, institutions, education policy, policy implementation, leadership, management, administration
Rebecca J. Frandina Jacob, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology
402 Baldy Hall North Campus rjjacob@buffalo.edu
Buffalo, New York 14260
Phone: 716-645-1106
Email: rjjacob@buffalo.edu
Research Areas: Access and Equity; Diversity; Multicultural Competence; School and Community Partnerships; Mental Health; Rehabilitation Counseling; School Counseling; Social and Emotional Development; Special Education
Assistant Professor
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology
403 Baldy Hall
Buffalo, New York 14260
Email: kosroosh@buffalo.edu
Research Areas: qualitative methods; critical phenomenology; community-engaged and action research within counselor education; community-driven interventions within k-12 schools; Black and Indigenous students experiences within education
Assistant Professor
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology
Research Areas: My research interests broadly explore the impact of race, ethnicity, and culture (REC) on counseling & counselor education, anti-racist school counseling practice, and culturally relevant and innovative counseling approaches (i.e, gaming, Hip-Hop).
Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: Access and Equity; Charter Schools; Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Cultural Studies; Cognition; Diversity; Design and Analysis of Longitudinal Research; ESL/ENL/Bilingual; International Education; Educator Preparation; Multicultural Competence; Learning Communities; Linguistic, Discourse, and Sociocultural Context; School and Community Partnerships; Multimodality, Embodiment, and Digital Literacy; Neurocognition; Sociolinguistics; Organizational Change; Qualitative Research Methods; Professional / Staff Development; Politics of Education; Research Design; Research Methods