Release date: April 23, 2003
Contact: Deb Hammacher, Associate Director, University Media Relations,
at 404-727-0644 or dhammac@emory.edu

National Teacher Education Association Honors Emory Professor

Emory University educational studies professor Jacqueline Jordan Irvine was honored for her influential research in urban education by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) during its annual awards ceremony Jan. 27.

Irvine received the Margaret B. Lindsey Award for Distinguished Research in Teacher Education that recognizes an individual whose research over the past decade has made a major impact on the field of teacher education. The award honors noted scholar Margaret Lindsey, who was a professor at Teachers College, Columbia University.

"This award from AACTE recognizes Dr. Irvine's major contributions to research and teacher education," says Eleanor Main, director of educational studies at Emory. "Her research on multicultural education, her training of teachers, as well as her teaching of doctoral students, have made a significant impact on how we can effectively teach children. We at Emory know of her many contributions to the Atlanta and Emory community, as well as her professional communities. Dr. Irvine is a 'triple threat' by excelling in research, teaching and professional service."

Irvine's research focuses on the cultural context of teaching and learning, and the professional development of urban teachers. The Charles Howard Candler Professor of Urban Education, she is the author of numerous books, among them "Educating Teachers for Diversity: Seeing with a Cultural Eye," to be published later this year, "In Search of Wholeness: African American Teachers and Their Culturally Specific Classroom Practices" (2002), "Culturally Responsive Teaching" (2001) and "Black Students and School Failure," which received the 1991 Outstanding Book Award from the AACTE, and the Academic Book of the Year from the American Association of College and University Research Librarians.

Irvine also was the founder and director of the former Center for Urban Learning/Teaching and Urban Research in Education and Schools —CULTURES—that was recognized as a model of best practice in teacher professional development by the U.S. Department of Education.

AACTE is a national association of colleges and universities with undergraduate or graduate programs that prepare professional educators, and is the principal professional association for college and university leaders with responsibility for educator preparation.

Irvine is a resident of Decatur (30030).

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