Faculty
Faculty in Early Childhood Education
James E. Johnson, Professor
(Ph.B., M.A., Ph.D.)
Early Childhood Education Professor-in-Charge
Dr. Johnson is formerly a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with Child and Family Studies and a post-doctoral fellow with Educational Testing Service. Research areas are parent-child relations and cognitive socialization and children's play. Teaching interests include parent involvement in education and contemporary approaches to early children education.
Contact Info:
145 Chambers Building
University Park, PA 16802-3206
Phone: (814) 865-2230
jej4@psu.edu
Joseph Michael Valente, Assistant Professor
(B.A., M.Ed., Ph.D.)
Early Childhood Professor
Affiliate Faculty, Disability Studies
Affiliate Faculty, Comparative & International Education
Dr. Valente's research interests include childhood studies, comparative and international education, educational anthropology, Deaf studies, and Disability studies. He is the author of the autobiographical-novel and autoethnography d/Deaf and d/Dumb: A Portrait of a Deaf Kid as a Young Superhero published by Peter Lang. Currently Dr. Valente is the co-Principal Investigator of the video ethnography project "Kindergartens for the Deaf in Three Countries: Japan, France, and the United States," funded by the Spencer Foundation. To learn more about his work, please see http://joevalente.net.
Contact Info:
157 Chambers Building
University Park, PA 16802-3206
jvalente@psu.edu
