Susan Etheredge

Associate Professor

Phone: (413) 585-3256

Office: 204 Morgan Hall

Email: sethered@email.smith.edu

Degrees:
A.B. cum laude, Smith College, Italian Language and Literature
Ed.M. Smith College
Ed.D. University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Research Interests:

Inquiry-based teaching and learning in the early childhood and elementary classroom (with a particular focus in science education), pre-service teacher development, Italian innovations in early childhood education.

Courses:
Edc 231: Foundations and Issues of Early Childhood Education
Edc 332: Children’s Literature
Edc 338: Children Learning to Read
Edc 341: The Child in Modern Society
Edc 345/559: Elementary Curriculum and Methods
Edc 510: Human Development and Education

Representative Publications:

Insights and Inspirations from Reggio Emilia: Stories of Teachers and Children from North America (with L. Gandini and L. Hill), Davis Publications, in press, forthcoming summer 2008.

Coral Reef Ed-Ventures: An Environmental Education Program for School Children in San Pedro, Belize (with H.A. Curran, E. Callaghan, and P. Peckol), Reef Encounters, vol. 33(27), 2005.

“Do You Know You Have Worms on Your Pearls?”: Listening to Children’s Voices in the Classroom, in Rethinking Childhood, eds. R. Unsworth & P. Pufall, Rutgers University Press, 2004.

Teaching Teachers to Teach Engineering (with B. Andam, G. Ellis, D. Grasso, and T. Gralinski), Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2004.

Introducing Students to Scientific Inquiry: How Do We Know What We Know? (with A. Rudnitsky), Allyn and Bacon, 2003.

Rosetta Marantz Cohen

Susan Etheredge

Sue J. M. Freeman

Janice Gatty

Sam Intrator

Alan L. Marvelli

Lucy Mule

Al Rudnitsky

Cathy Topal

Jack Czajkowski