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Professor

Positions:

Houston Endowment Endowed Chair of Urban Education, School of Education and Human Development, Texas A&M University
Founding Director, Collaborative for Innovation in Teacher Education, School of Education and Human Development, Texas A&M University
Professor, Teaching, Learning and Culture, School of Education and Human Development

Research Areas:

International education, Context effects (Psychology), Teaching, College teachers, Education--Curricula, Teachers, Teacher-student relationships, Human Resource Development and African Americans, Education, Teachers--Training of, STEM

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cheryljcraig@gmail.com

281 923-0292

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Websites

http://www.cheryljcraig.com/

ORCID

0000-0002-3190-9116

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overview

Cheryl J. Craig is a Professor, an Endowed Chair of Urban Education and the Program Lead for Technology and Teacher Education in the Department of Teaching, Learning and Culture, Texas A&M University. She is an American Educational Research Association (AERA) Fellow, a recipient of the AERA Division B (Curriculum) Outstanding Lifetime Career Award, a winner of the AERA Division K (Teaching & Teacher Education) Legacy Award and has been honored with AERA's Michael Huberman Award for Outstanding Contributions to Understanding the Lives of Teachers. She additionally was awarded the AERA Exemplary Research in Teaching and Teacher Education in 2021. Craig also has been honored with the International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching STAR Award for Significant and Exemplary Contributions through Research, Teaching and Professional Service in the International Field of Teaching and Teacher Education. Being an AERA Fellow and an ISATT STAR awardee, coupled with her many other recognitions (including KDP Teacher of the Year) make her one of the most distinguished professors in teaching and teacher education and the general field of education today. Further proof is that she is the only professor in AERA history to be honored with the Division K Legacy Award and Division K Exemplary Research Award in the same year (2021).

education and training

University of Toronto - (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Postdoctoral Training 1994
Ph.D. in , University of Alberta - (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) 1992
B.E. in , Brandon University - (Brandon, Manitoba, Canada) 1985
M.Ed. in , University of Calgary - (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) 1980
B.A. in History; English/Music, Brandon University - (Brandon, Manitoba, Canada) 1976

selected publications

Academic Articles121

Li, J., & Craig, C. J. (2023). A beginning teacher's living of counter stories in a high-needs school in rural China. RESEARCH PAPERS IN EDUCATION. 38(1), 1-20.
Craig, C. J., Li, J., Rios, A., Lee, H., & Verma, R. M. (2022). Wounded healer: The impact of a grant-supported scholarship on an underrepresented science, technology, engineering, and mathematics student's career and life. FRONTIERS IN EDUCATION. 7, 1043518.
Kelley, M., Curtis, G. A., Craig, C. J., Reid, D., & Easley, A. (2022). Reflection through critical friendship: Promoting growth of teachers. FRONTIERS IN EDUCATION. 7, 1056471.
Craig, C. J., Flores, M. A., Van Overschelde, J. P., & Hill-Jackson, V. (2022). Problematizing the Taken-For-Granted: Talking Across Differences in Teacher Education. JOURNAL OF TEACHER EDUCATION. 73(3), 221-224.
Craig, C. J., Li, J., & Kelley, M. (2022). 'Charting waters of New Seas': the scholarly contributions of Elliot Eisner. JOURNAL OF CURRICULUM STUDIES. 54(2), 147-164.

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Books7

Craig, C. J., McDonald, D. M., & Curtis, G. A. (2023). Learning, Leading, and the Best-Loved Self in Teaching and Teacher Education. Springer Nature.
Craig, C. J. (2022). A Life of Optimism Selected Works of Miriam Ben-Peretz. BRILL.
Craig, C. J. (2020). Curriculum Making, Reciprocal Learning, and the Best-Loved Self. Palgrave MacMillan.
Craig, C. J., Turchi, L., & McDonald, D. M. (2020). Cross-Disciplinary, Cross-Institutional Collaboration in Teacher Education Cases of Learning and Leading. Palgrave MacMillan.
Craig, C. J., Curtis, G. A., Kelley, M., Martindell, P. T., & Prez, M. M. (2020). Knowledge Communities in Teacher Education, Sustaining Collaborative Work. Springer Nature.

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Chapters73

Craig, C. J. (2023). Challenges to lived curriculum making: 19902020. International Encyclopedia of Education(Fourth Edition). 339-349. Elsevier.
Craig, C. J., Flores, M. A., Marcondes, M. I., & Ciuffetelli Parker, D. (2023). Cases of Four International Reforming Contexts: Prelude to the Pandemic and Beyond. The Palgrave Handbook of Teacher Education Research. 1431-1460. Springer Nature.
Craig, C. J. (2023). The Best-Loved Self: Where to from Here?. Learning, Leading, and the Best-Loved Self in Teaching and Teacher Education. 333-342. Springer Nature.
Craig, C. J. (2023). Tracing the Roots of the Best-Loved Self. Learning, Leading, and the Best-Loved Self in Teaching and Teacher Education. 9-29. Springer Nature.
Monroy, M. B., Norton, M., & Craig, C. J. (2023). Unleashing the Best-Loved Self: Autobiographical Narratives of Experience in Higher Education. Learning, Leading, and the Best-Loved Self in Teaching and Teacher Education. 171-193. Springer Nature.