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Neighborhoods Initiative Urban Affairs Review Chicago
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Faculty Scholar Detail, 2005-2006Kimberley GomezAssistant Professor, Curriculum and Instruction College of Education Barrier or Building Block: Literacy as Gatekeeper or Vehicle for Educational Development in Adolescence Professor Gomez is a learning sciences researcher whose research concerns the design and study of learning environments and inquiry tools for the support of literacy and language in the content areas and with standard and advanced learning technologies. The goal of this work is to build access to, and opportunities to learn for children of color and second language learners. Her work as a GCI scholar explores the design and use of materials and classroom practices that help children communicate in the literacy genres of science. The empirical work conducted in urban middle schools investigates how teachers modify curricula to support literacy in science, teachers’ use of designed literacy in science Instructional materials, and how students’ develop skills in using the literate genres of science in inquiry contexts. Kim currently is a co-Principal Investigator on a NSF-Research on Learning Environments grant studying literacy support in high school science learning using technology support tools, a digital literacies grant from the Institute for Educational Sciences (with Susan Goldman and Jim Pellegrino and Kim Lawless — UIC), a MacAthur Foundation grant which examines urban students’ digital literacy out of school activities and she is designing a prototype for a home-school community website to support family-school interactions. The Great Cities Institute Faculty Scholars Program brings UIC faculty to the institute for a year in residence to begin, further, or complete an engaged research project. Scholars are free from their formal teaching responsibilities during their term. Prospective scholars apply by submitting a proposal that is peer reviewed along three key metrics of engaged research: interdisciplinarity, partnership, and impact. GCI Faculty Scholars implement and further their own research agendas, as well as develop grant proposals, participate in the Great Cities Institute Lecture Series, and contribute to the Great Cities Institute Working Paper Series. Applications are released in the fall semester and due at the start of the spring semester. |
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