Phone: 309-677-3190
Email: helja@bradley.edu

Dr. Antola Crowe is Professor in the Department of Teacher Education with emphasis on early childhood education.  As a teacher she believes everyone, including herself, is a learner, and her teaching is learner-centered, dialogical and reflective; she tries to model for learners what they can do using best practices and a heightened awareness of their own teacher personalities, knowledge, and interests. She invites students to collaborate with her both in presenting, grant writing and other professional experiences.

    As the William T. Kemper Fellow for Teaching Excellence, she oversees the Professional Development Schools Project for the College of Education and Health Sciences, a partnership project that focuses on student learning, preparing professionals in education and health, promoting research for improving practice, and providing professional development at four Peoria public schools and in the college through the Kemper Teaching Academy.  Professor Antola Crowe teaches Exploring Diversity, Early Childhood Methods, Early Childhood Philosophy and History (portfolio class) and at the graduate level Cultural Diversity and Schooling and Curriculum Theory. She is the President for the Phi Kappa Phi Interdisciplinary Honor Society and serves as the Chair of the College Internationalization committee coordinating the Global Scholar program. She volunteers her time with international students on campus.

    She is the author of research and pedagogical publications on empowerment, early childhood curriculum, wellbeing and the workplace and other topics, including a book entitled: The ethnography of Empowerment: The transformative power of classroom interaction . She has conducted numerous refereed, and invited presentations and workshops locally, nationally and internationally on learner empowerment, pedagogy in all areas of the curriculum, curricular integration; cross-cultural competence and diversity, wellbeing, professional growth; ethnography in educational research; brain-based learning and teaching, developmentally and culturally appropriate practices; educational goals; community building, social-emotional learning in student achievement; portfolio assessment, and professional development schools.

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