Faculty Awards

Kinloch wins AERA 2010 Early Career Contribution Award

Valerie Kinloch, an Associate Professor in Ed T&L, is the 2010 recipient of the American Educational Research Association's Committee on Scholars of Color in Education (CSCE) Early Career Contribution Award. This award is intended to recognize (1) scholars in earlier career stages that have made significant contributions to the understanding of issues that disproportionately affect ethnic and social minority populations, and (2) minority scholars who have made a significant contribution to educational research and development. The colleagues in the field who nominated her and the CSCE awards committee wholeheartedly agreed that she exemplifies the spirit of this award. Dr. Kinloch will receive the award at the AERA annual meeting in May 2010.

Merryfield wins two awards

Merry M. Merryfield (Ed T&L) has won two awards from her national organization, The National Council of the Social Studies, at their annual conference in Atlanta. The Distinguished Scholar of Global Education Award is given by the International Assembly of NCSS to recognize those who have made seminal contributions in research, writing, and leadership in the field of global education. Winners are selected by a committee of international scholars. The NCSS Award for Global Understanding given in honor of James M. Becker recognizes a social studies educator (or a team of educators) who has made outstanding contributions in helping American social studies students increase their understanding of the world. It is based on criteria that include infusing current scholarship on globalization and global issues, cross-cultural experiences, global interconnectedness, and primary sources into P-12 learning about the world.

Edmiston joins ranks of EHE faculty honored for teaching skills

Given his professional interest in drama as an educational tool, it should come as no surprise that Brian Edmiston's impact on those he teaches is nothing short of dramatic. Edmiston, associate professor of teaching and learning in the College of Education and Human Ecology, has worked to shape elementary school teachers, both in the university setting and in elementary schools internationally. Ohio State recognized his influence by awarding him a prestigious Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching this spring. Students of every age -- from six years old to seasoned classroom teachers -- praise him for his knowledge and his equally profound interpersonal skill. "Dr. Edmiston is one of a kind," said an elementary school teacher in whose classroom Edmiston had worked. "His way of teaching and positive influence have helped me to change my views of teaching and learning both in the school walls and out." And it's not just Edmiston's students who express this level of appreciation for his expertise. He is a frequent speaker and presenter at international conferences and was instrumental in securing the recent partnership between the Royal Shakespeare Company and Ohio State that will bring the plays of Shakespeare to new life in central Ohio. He is the author of two widely read and referenced books. He joins 53 education and human ecology colleagues who have received the university's highest honors for faculty teaching since 1969. "Dr. Edmiston has a unique and hands-on way of instructing," noted one of his graduate students. "He also seems to care very much about his students and has the most compassion for his profession that I have seen among all the instructors I have had at Ohio State." Edmiston is a college alumnus, having received a Ph.D. in education in 1991. He earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Bristol in England and master's from the University of Newcastle in England.

International reading group selects Lehman for top award

Barbara Lehman, an award-winning professor of children's and adolescent literature, Teaching and Learning, Mansfield, has received another top honor: the 2009 Arbuthnot Award. The award from the International Reading Association recognizes her as an outstanding professor of children's and young adults' literature. Lehman received her doctorate at the University of Virginia and has been at the Mansfield campus since 1986. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on children's literature and literacy education. Her research is in child-centered literary criticism, international children's literature and literature-based practices in elementary and middle school classrooms. She has co-edited Teaching with Children's Books: Paths to Literature-based Instruction, co-authored Global Perspectives in Children's Literature, and was co-editor of Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature. She received the Excellence in Scholarship award (1995) and the Ohioana James P. Barry award for Editorial Excellence (2000). She will receive the Arbuthnot Award at the Book and Author luncheon at the International Reading Association convention in Minneapolis on May 7. Lehman follows in the footsteps of four previous college faculty members. They are Janet Hickman, 2002; Rudine Sims Bishop, 1996; Bernice E. Cullinan, 1989; and the late Charlotte Huck, 1988.