Active Research Projects
Elementary Education Faculty
Gerald Ponder, Ph.D.
The University of Texas at Austin
gerald_ponder@ncsu.edu
515-5908
Dr. Ponder is the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and serves as the
Interim Department Chair of the Elementary Education Department.
Jennifer Mangrum, Ph.D.
UNC-Greensboro
jennifer_mangrum@ncsu.edu
513-4631
Dr. Mangrum is an Assistant Professor and previously served as coordinator of the Elementary Education Initiative in the College. She specializes in teacher education in elementary education/curriculum and instruction. Her research interests include:
1) using the Paideia seminar as a tool for dialogue and initiating and
sustaining communities of practice in impacted schools;
2) investigating preservice teachers’ worldview through the use
of interactive video webblogs in social studies methods’ courses
3) integrating science and technology into the K-6 social studies curriculum
in highly impacted schools
4) studying effective teacher education programs as well as the technology
tools they infuse in their programs.
last updated December 19, 2007
