UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Below are the most recent active external research grants awarded to faculty in the Penn State College of Education.
Carol Clymer, associate teaching professor of education and co-director of the Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy (ISAL) and the Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy, is principal investigator (PI) of a project, “Adult Basic Education Direct Service (Federal & State) 2023-24,” which was awarded $564,269 ($381,001 federal and $183,268 state) from the Pennsylvania Department of Education. This one-year grant provides free adult basic education (reading, writing, math, transition to postsecondary education or employment) and English as a second language classes for eligible adults in Centre and Lycoming counties. Robert Getz, director of Career and Family Pathways Programs, is the project director.
Ricardo Martinez, assistant professor of education (math education), is PI of a two-year project, “Collaborative Research: The Design and Refinement of Modules for Raising Critical Consciousness in Undergraduate Mathematics Teacher Preparation,” that has been awarded $79,599 from the U.S. National Science Foundation. This project seeks to understand how future high school mathematics teachers gain a critical consciousness to counter anti-Blackness in the classroom. A secondary goal of the project is to create a resource for other mathematics teacher educators to reflect the harm their own pedagogy may be causing.
Information about external grant awards is provided by the College of Education Research Office. Click here for information about all active research projects in the college.