Susan Etheredge
Professor, Director
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204 Morgan Hall |  |
(413) 585–3256 |
Susan Etheredge earned an A.B., cum laude, from Smith College in Italian language and literature; an Ed.M. from Smith College; and an Ed.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Etheredge's research interests include inquiry-based teaching and learning in the early childhood and elementary classroom (with a particular focus in science education), pre-service teacher development, and Italian innovations in early childhood education.
Courses
- EDD 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
Represented 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.
