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Megan Guise guise.megan@gmail.com LRDC, 1st floor |
Graduate Student Assistant, Instruction and Learning, English Education
Graduate Student Researcher, Learning Research & Development Center
Teaching Fellow, Instruction and Learning, English Education
University of Pittsburgh, candidate for Ph.D. in Instruction and Learning, 2005-present
Millersville University, MEd in English Education, 2004
English Teacher, Northeastern School District, 2002-2005
Millersville University, BS in English Education, 2002
Currently, I am exploring "islands of expertise" by interviewing parents about the "islands" of their children. Through an extensive upcoming qualitative study, we will interview a large number of parents about their children’s interests, trying to better understand "islands." These interviews will offer insight into how “islands” are created, maintained, and transformed.
My second study will focus on how children learn information about dinosaurs. This study will include analyzing different texts (i.e. children’s books, informative texts, television programs, movies, etc.) about dinosaurs. We will also look at the gendering of the natural world in these different texts.
Projects I have completed include an evaluation of Shakespeare-in-the Schools, an artist in residency program as well as a formative evaluation of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History's distance-learning program. This distance learning program offered through CMNH will continue over the past three years and future evaluation opportunities may occur.
"An Evaluation of an Artist in Residency Program." Poster presented at 2006 Council of Graduate Students in Education Student Research Conference: Crossing Boundaries.
"Creating a Teacher Identity: An Exploratory Study into the Multiple Identities of Teachers and the Tensions that Inhibit Identity Formation." Poster presented at 18th Annual Ethnographic and Qualitative Research in Education Conference - June 9 and 10, 2006.
