Professional Development Academies in Education

Professional Development Programs in Information Studies

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UCLA Ed&IS faculty are at the forefront of their fields, addressing issues of equality, access and social justice in the fields of education and information. Their scholarship has an international reputation for excellence and commitment to addressing the most critical issues facing our society.

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Department of Education 2023 Information Sessions

Department of Information Studies Programs

Department of Information Studies 2023 Information Sessions

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Department of Education

Aimée Dorr

UC Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs (2012-2017)

Ph.D., Psychology, Stanford University, 1970

M.A., Psychology, Stanford University, 1966

B.A., Mathematics, Stanford University, 1964

Roles of electronic media and technology in children’s informal and formal education

Integration of technology into the K-12 and college curriculum

Personality and social behavior in education

Dorr, A., Arms, E., & Hall, V.  (2008)  Developing the next generation of education researchers:  UCLA’s experience with the Spencer Foundation Research Training Grant.  Teachers College Record, Volume 110, Number 7, 2008, p. 1424-1457.

Dorr, A.  (2001).  Media literacy.  In M. J. Smelser & P. B. Baltes (Eds.), International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences.  Oxford, England:  Elsevier Science Limited.

Schacter, J., Chung, G. K. W. K., & Dorr, A.  (1998).  Children’s internet searching on complex problems:  Performance and process analysis.  Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 49, 840-849.

Dorr, A., & Rabin, B. E.  (1995).  Parents, children, and television.  In M. H. Bornstein (Ed.), Handbook of parenting, vol. 4:  Applied and practical considerations of parenting (pp. 323-357).  Hillsdale, NJ:  Erlbaum.

Dorr, A.  (1994).  What constitutes literacy in a culture with diverse and changing means of communication?  In D. Keller-Cohen (Ed.), Literacy:  Interdisciplinary conversations. Cresskill, NJ:  Hampton Press.