Accolades: Janet Kremenitzer, Melinda Miceli

Posted  3/8/2006
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Janet Pickard Kremenitzer, assistant professor of education and coordinator of elementary education, ENHP, published a feature article in the Spring 2006 edition of Childhood Education, titled “Collaboration Between Teacher Educator and Kindergarten Teacher.” The paper was based on a four-year investigative study of professional practice within both higher education and elementary education.

Childhood Education is the premiere peer-reviewed journal of the Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI). The mission of ACEI is to promote and support in the global community the optimal education and development of children, from birth through early adolescence, and to influence the professional growth of educators and the efforts of others who are committed to the needs of children in a changing society.


Melinda Miceli, associate professor of sociology, Hillyer College, has published an article, “Morality Politics vs. Identity Politics: Framing Processes and Competition Among Christian Right and Gay Social Movement Organizations,” in the December 2005 issue of Sociological Forum.

The article applies a social movement organization framing analysis to conflicts between gay rights and Christian-right groups over issues of lesbian, gay, and bisexual inclusions in public education. As groups representing each side entered this new arena of debate over gay rights, they applied strategies they had used in other arenas. According to Miceli, both sides have pursued inflexible, polarizing strategies that target their constituencies, and relinquished the opportunity to offer new and creative understanding of their positions and to reach potential new audiences —a demonstration of how opposing frames can become mutually reinforcing constraints.