Professor of Educational Studies and Chair of the Department
Ripon College
300 Seward Street
Ripon, WI 54971
(920) 748-8386

E-mail: WilliamsJ@ripon.edu

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Education

• B.S. in secondary English education, Ohio State University
• M.Ed. in curriculum and instructional reading, Kent State
• Ph.D. in curriculum and instructional reading and cultural foundations of education, Kent State

Awards and Honors

• Severy Award

Areas of Interest

• Literacy development
• Classroom culture and teachers' decision-making
• Educational ethnographics

Recent Publications

• Currently involved in an ethnographic study of a full-day kindergarten program.

Current Courses Taught

• EDU 311  Literacy Development in Middle and Secondary Schools
• EDU 341  Language and Literacy Development: Reading
• EDU 435  Student Teaching: Early Childhood
• EDU 441  Student Teaching: Elementary
• EDU 471  Student Teaching Seminar