Profiles in "Youth Education Development" Expertise Area

  • Mary Stokrocki is an arts educator who specializes in multicultural teaching and learning, visual culture studies, alternative learning contexts and educational use of Second Life.
  • Schupp's research interests include dance competition culture, dance curriculum and pedagogy in tertiary education, and equity across the spectrum of dance education.
  • Tobias focuses on innovation and transformation in music education and how music learning and teaching might make a positive impact on people's lives and society.
  • Schmidt’s research focuses on preservice and beginning teachers, and teachers and students in underserved schools.
  • Halavais helps people to discover ways in which social media change the nature of scholarship and learning, and allow for new forms of collaboration and self-government. He directs the master's program in social technologies.
  • Stauffer's scholarly interests include children, music, place, and narrative.
  • Elena Rocchi, Ph. D., Clinical Associate Professor at ASU The Design School; Faculty Affiliate at The Sidney Poitier New American Film School and The Biomimicry Center; AIA 2020 Educator of the Year Award, Arizona Chapter.
  • Hayes is a musician and sound artist who builds and performs with hybrid analogue/digital instruments, whose research centers around embodied and enactive music cognition, and audio-haptic technologies.
  • As an international clinician, solo performer, and advocate for music education, Swoboda has presented and performed at prestigious conferences and meetings. She is an Eastman tuba artist.
  • Dreyfoos has had multi-faceted career as a stage director, character tenor, actor, educator, and arts administrator. He has served on the faculty of ASU since 1994.