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 commitments 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.
  • Alexander Halavais is a researcher, author, and creator, interested in the ways in which automation, datafication, and AI change the nature of learning and allow for new forms of creativity, collaboration, and autonomy.
  • 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.