Research in Action

Faculty in the Program in Education are engaged in a broad range of scholarly research with many of the projects funded through grants. Major interests of the faculty include service-learning pedagogy, educational leadership, teacher retention and renewal, and education policy. Central concepts that guide much of the research in the Program in Education are issues of equity, access, and social change.

Title Funding Agency Investigators
National Science Foundation (NSF) Capacity Building Grant National Science Foundation
  • Kate Allman (Program in Education)
National Science Foundation (NSF) Phase II Robert Noyce Fellowship National Science Foundation
  • Kate Allman (Program in Education)
Finding, Supporting and Keeping: The Role of the Principal in Teacher Retention Issues Duke University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Susan Wynn (Program in Education)
  • Kathleen Brown (School of Education, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
Gente Estudiada: Latina/o Students Confronting and Engaging Home/Community Knowledge Within/Outside Institutions of Higher Education American Educational Studies Association (AESA) Taylor and Francis President’s Award
  • Norma Marrun (Program in Education)
Right to Education Act and No Child Left Behind: A Comparative Analysis of Education Legislation in India and the United States Duke University and the Dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences
  • Susan Wynn (Program in Education)
  • Gitanjali Sen (Department of Education, School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University)
Project HOPE The Duke Endowment
  • Barbara Jentleson (Duke)
Project HOPE & Project CARE 21st Century Learning Centers, U.S. Department of Education
  • Barbara Jentleson (Duke)
  • John Burness (Duke)
  • Beverly Washington (North Carolina Central University)
  • Nan Coleman (North Carolina Central University)
Project HOPE Wachovia Foundation
  • Barbara Jentleson (Duke)
  • John Burness (Duke)
Project HOPE W.K. Kellogg Foundation
  • Barbara Jentleson (Duke)
  • John Burness (Duke)
  • Beverly Washington (North Carolina Central University)
Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers with Transformative Practice: Engaging All Learners through Service-Learning Corporation for National and Community Service
  • Kathy Sikes (Program in Education)
  • David Malone (Program in Education)
  • Jan Riggsbee (Program in Education)
Teacher Renewal Initiative: Center for Teacher Learning & Collaboration Office of the President, Duke University
  • Susan Wynn (Program in Education)
  • Jan Riggsbee (Program in Education)
  • David Malone (Program in Education)
Developing Inter-culturally Competent and Global Learning Curricula by Exploring Local Schools in India and Examining the Role Material Objects Play in Cross-Cultural Curricula Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program
  • Baishakhi Taylor (Center for South Asian Studies)
  • Darla Deardorff (Association of International Education Administrators)
  • Jan Riggsbee (Program in Education)
Earn and Learn: An Economic and Civic Literacy Service-Learning Partnership State Farm Youth Advisory Board
  • Kathy Sikes (Program in Education)
  • David Malone (Program in Education)