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Mirrors and Windows: Including Race in Literacy Instruction Opens Up the World

May. 02, 2018

On a Thursday afternoon last fall, approximately 20 pre-service teachers arrived for class at Guerrero-Thompson Elementary in Austin. They were students in the College of Education enrolled in Literacy Methods, a course on reading methods in elementary school. Their initial assignment: critically analyze non-fiction texts. The goal was for the pre-service teachers…

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Developmentally Appropriate Kindergarten: An Interview with Christopher P. Brown

May. 01, 2018

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Germine Awad Discusses How Pervasive Racial Bias Is in KUT Interview

May. 01, 2018

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Autism Bridges

Apr. 26, 2018

The goal of the Department of Special Education is to be a bridge of expertise for families of children with autism, and for the community. We provide a space for our faculty to conduct basic and applied research. We also prepare our students to create and deliver best practices in a…

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Undergraduate’s Fine Motor Research Can Give Physical Therapists a Hand

Apr. 26, 2018

It can be difficult for those with a fine motor disability to complete certain gestures. An undergraduate researcher is studying how different forces or force combinations may be more strenuous to conduct than others. By having volunteers perform specific motions, his research has the ability to assist physical therapists in…

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Kinesiology and Health Education Ph.D. Candidate to be Featured on The Dr. Oz Show

Apr. 24, 2018

A casual conversation on a flight from back to Austin from Newark led to an appearance on the Dr. Oz Show for Tim Fleisher, a Ph.D. candidate in exercise science in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education. On an episode set to air May 16, 2018, Fleisher shares his research and exercise…

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KHE Graduate Student Wins Several Awards at the Texas ACSM Annual Meeting

Apr. 17, 2018

Ann-Katrin Grotle, a Ph.D. student in the exercise science program in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, has won three awards at the most recent meeting of the TACSM

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Professor Luis Urrieta Publishes ‘Cultural Constructions of Identity: Meta-Ethnography and Theory’

Apr. 17, 2018

The book provides an up-to-date commentary on the use of qualitative research to gauge the range of identities.

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Kinesiology and Health Education Professor Jan Todd quoted in Forbes "The Body Beautiful Business"

Apr. 12, 2018

"What you hear again and again and again is of someone who doesn't measure up in terms of what we think is fit and beautiful and transforming themselves through exercise."

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Educational Psychology Graduate Students Receive 2018 STAY Fellowships

Apr. 05, 2018

This fellowship is designed for students in terminal master’s programs in psychology whose training prepares them to provide mental health services to transition age youth (ages 16-25) and their families.

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