CEHS Professors Honored for Outstanding Research

Utah State University professors Sherry Marx and Steve Camicia have received outstanding educational research awards given by the American Educational Research Association.

Marx, assistant professor of Multicultural and English as a Second Language Education in the Department of Secondary Education, received the 2008 Exemplary Research in Teaching and Teacher Educa­tion Award from the association. 

 

According to Division K, this award recognizes the significant contri­bution to scholarship represented by a journal article or book in the period between January 2006 and December 2007.

 

Marx was selected because of her publication “Revealing the Invisible: Confronting Passive Racism in Teacher Education,” published in September 2006. The book includes a qualitative study of white, female, teacher education students who displayed passive racism toward students of Mexican descent. The book encourages teacher education students to recognize racism and to make important changes in their beliefs and practices that would have positive impacts on children, said Marx.

 

“Camicia, assistant professor of Social Studies Education of the Department of Elementary Education, and Walter Parker, University of Washington, received the association’s 2008 Research in Social Studies Education Outstanding Paper Award.  

 

Their paper focuses on a qualitative study on the developing international education movement found throughout the United States.

 

“We concluded that the movement serves many masters, competing social imaginaries are at play, and national security plays a central role,” Camicia said.

 

The study interviewed movement intellectuals who were positioned between the powerbrokers of public and private resources and opinion (e.g., media, government, foundations) and educators working on the ground (e.g., teachers, principals).

 

The American Educational Research Association is a national research society that strives to advance knowledge about education, to encourage scholarly inquiry related to education and to promote the use of research to improve education and serve the public good.