Faculty scholarship and recognitions: 10/29/25
From groundbreaking research to professional honors, faculty representing Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation advance ideas that shape teaching and learning. The listings below, drawn from the college's regular scholarship survey, highlight recent contributions.
Published research
Handbook of Education Policy Research
American Educational Research Association. Two chapters: Spaces of opportunity: A commentary on research in the politics of education; and Anthropology and education policy research: Concepts, Approaches, and Tensions.
Professors David Garcia and Jill Koyama contribute chapters to this newly-released AERA handbook, now available in e-text form. The second edition of the Handbook of Education Policy Research addresses a variety of policy and contextual issues in early childhood, K-12, and postsecondary education that have received extensive empirical attention during the past 15 years. With the pandemic and social turmoil as a backdrop, the editors build on the breadth and depth of the first edition while expanding the scope of the project to include subjects, methods, theories, and analyses that have contributed powerfully to the study of education policy and politics in the 2010s and 2020. Garcia authored the chapter on the politics of education,offering insights into the intersections of policy and educational politics. Jill Koyama co-authored the chapter on anthropology and education policy research with Bradley A. Levinson, Rodney Hopson, and Jennifer Sandler, highlighting the contributions of anthropology to education policy research and its methodological complexities.
Effects of designing a narrative-based video game on high school students’ climate change perspectives
Journal of Science Education and Technology
Professor Eugene Judson recently published this open access article with colleagues that explores how engaging high school students, especially those from STEM-underrepresented backgrounds, in designing an extended reality narrative game affected their understanding of climate change and sustainability.
Listed as: Judson, E., Ostman, R., & Weller, N. A. (2025). Effects of designing a narrative-based video game on high school students’ climate change perspectives. Journal of Science Education and Technology.
Teaching Exceptional Children
Professor Juliet Hart Barnett examine how Unified Sports initiatives foster belonging and peer connections among students with intellectual and developmental disabilities, offering practical strategies for inclusive education. The article provides school leaders with guidance on developing and sustaining Unified Sports programs to promote equity and community in schools.
Listed as: Hart Barnett, J. E. (2025). Promoting social connections for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities through Unified Sports. Teaching Exceptional Children. https://doi.org/10.1177/00400599251340642
Recognitions and appointments
Daniel Liou, an associate professor of education leadership, was recently named a co-editor of the Review of Educational Research, a journal of the American Educational Research Association. As a community-based researcher and former school board president, Liou’s scholarship explores the sociological manifestations of expectations in the organization of classrooms, schools, and society, contextualizing educational practices in relational, curricular and institutional terms.
MLFC faculty are invited to submit their scholarship through the faculty survey form.