Cheryl Craig will be one of the keynote speakers of the forum and will present at the meeting of the research group "Education in a global context" the report "Turning points in research and life: the ups and downs of our time."
Sherrill J. Craig, professor and head of the Department of Urban Education at the University of Texas, has been participating in the International Forum on Teacher Education for several years. Last year, she presented the paper “Learning that Matters in Research on Pedagogy and Teacher Education”.
According to the international expert, research in teaching and teacher education, like the context of our lives, is closely related to turning points or twists and turns.
- Twists and turns represent sudden changes in the fate of people and unforeseen changes in circumstances. Today's world is subject to transformation and change. This fact cannot but affect education. In my talk, I will analyze the storylines of research conducted over two decades in the urban school environment and identify the changes that have caused unforeseen changes in the professional life of teachers and school principals.
In addition, a pandemic that affected the whole world came to the attention of the researcher. Cheryl Craig will try to answer the question of how the teacher-student relationship develops and how research is conducted in a pandemic.
Cheryl Craig conducts her research with Houston school teachers. In such schools, as a rule, children from poor families who are at risk of school failure are enrolled. Her research topics focus on the impact of various school reform programs on teachers.
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Cheryl J. Craig is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), recipient of the AERA Award for Outstanding Career in Education. In addition, she has been honored with the AERA Michael Hubermann Award for Outstanding Contribution to Understanding Teachers' Life and the AERA Award for Excellence in Teacher Education Research.
In 2019 she received the ISATT award for her significant contribution to the international field of teaching and teacher education. She currently serves as Program Leader for Technology and Teacher Education on campus and is the Chair of the International Teachers and Educators Research Association, whose membership spans 55 countries. in addition, Craig is the executive editor of Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice and a member of the editorial board of Reflexive Practice. She is also the editor-in-chief of the Information Age Publishing textbook series.