research overview
- In her research, Professor Stillman uses qualitative methods and critical and social learning theories to explore intersections between teacher education/learning, education policy, and K-8 classroom instruction. In particular, she explores how preservice and practicing teachers learn to critically navigate restrictive policies, especially in high-poverty, under-resourced schools serving youth from racialized and minoritized communities, including bilingual learners. Currently, Professor Stillman is exploring questions surrounding the preparation of the next generation of equity and justice-centered teacher educators, as well as a range of teacher education pedagogies that aim to prepare justice-centered elementary teachers and disrupt the overwhelming presence of whiteness in preservice teacher preparation. Dr. Stillman’s work has appeared in the Review of Educational Research, Teachers College Record, Journal of Teacher Education, Urban Education, and International Multilingual Research Journal, among other journals. She is also co-author of Teaching for Equity in Complex Times: Negotiating Standards in a High-Performing Bilingual School (Teachers College Press, 2017) and Teaching to Change the World, 4th Edition (Paradigm Publishers, 2013), and 5th Edition (Routledge, 2018).