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  Distance Learning - Online  Core Faculty
Research and Teaching Interests

Laila Aaen | Sue Bawale | Gretchen BrookeSeon Chun   
Betty Jones | Judy Magee | Paige Parker

 

Laila AaenLaila Aaen
email
626-397-1309
Office location: Pasadena
55 Eureka Street, Office 38

Teaching Interests:

  • Thesis Rescue/Thesis Completion
  • Assessment of Life Experience
  • Power, Identity, Culture and Society
  • Higher Education Development


Education:
Ph.D. The Wright Institute in Berkeley, Psychology
M.A. University of Wisconsin, Sociology
B.A. Carthage College, Sociology 

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Sue Choi BawaleSue  Bawale 
email 
619-683-7406
Office location: San Diego

Teaching Interests:

  • Early Childhood Development and Education
  • Language and Cross-Cultural Cognition
  • Assessment of Life Experience
  • Temperament and Sensory Integration Issues


Education:

Ed.D Teachers College, Columbia University, Curriculum & Teaching/Early Childhood Education
M.Ed. Teachers College, Columbia University, Curriculum & Teaching
M.A. Teachers College, Columbia University, Early Childhood Education
B.A. Tufts University, Child Study

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Gretchen Brooke 
email 
707-480-3462 
Office location: Oakland

Teaching Interests:

  • Human development
  • Teambuilding
  • Anti-bias work with children and adults
  • Conflict resolution and mediation
  • Advocacy for children 

 

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Seon Chun, Ed.D.
email 
626-397-1315
Office location: Pasadena
55 Eureka Street, Office 9
Office Hours:
Tuesdays 3-5pm
Wednesdays 1-3pm
and by appointment

Teaching Interests:

  • Human Development
  • Science for Young Children
  • Curriculum
  • Constructivism
  • Distance Learning


Education:
Ed.D. University of Northern Iowa, Curriculum & Instruction, Early Childhood 
Education
M.A.  University of Northern Iowa, Curriculum & Instruction, Early Childhood 
Education
B.A.   Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea, Early Childhood Education

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Betty Jones Ph.D. 
emailBetty Jones
626-397-1320
1-800-613-0300
Office location: Pasadena

Teaching Interests:

  • Learning through Play
  • Emergent Curriculum
  • Active Learning for Adults
  • Online Learning
  • Peacemaking


Education:

Ph.D. University of Southern California, Sociology
M.A.  University of Wisconsin, Child Development
M.A. Whittier College, Sociology
B.A. College of the Pacific, Psychology
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Judy Magee, M.A.Judy Magee
email
503-675-1805
1-877-833-7300 (toll-free)
Office location: Portland, OR

Teaching Interests:

  • Online Learning
  • Transformative Pedagogy
  • Holistic Curriculum Design
  • Parent Development and Family Support
  • Anti-Bias/Anti-Racism Work with Children and Adults
  • Civil Rights Movement Youth Education
  • Interpersonal Neurobiology

Education:M.A. Pacific Oaks College, Human Development
B.A. University of California, Davis, Psychology

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Paige Parker 
email

(510) 622-8132
Office location: Oakland, Visalia

Teaching Interests:

  •  Racial Identity Development
  • Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma
  • Spriritual Activism
  • Alternative learning practices and environments


Education:M.A. California School of Professional Psychology, Clinical Psychology
M.A. Stanford University, Communications
M.S. Bank Street College of Education, Early Childhood Education
B.A. Howard University, Elementary Education

 


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