Faculty Publications

NCE faculty continue to advance knowledge and practice in education through impactful scholarship. The following books and articles, published in recent months, reflect the breadth of their research, innovation, and commitment to improving teaching and learning.

• Associate Professor Sadia Warsi published the book The Little Shelter That Could: Literacy Resilience of Mothers and Children Facing Homelessness, January 2026.
• Associate Professor Xiuwen Wu published the article "Go for the Mind: A Review of Go's Cognitive Benefits for the Young and Old" in the Journal of Go Studies, Vol. 19, No. 2.
• Associate Professor Ruth Quiroa co-authored the book chapter entitled "Beyond Candy Skulls and Latino Celebrations: Empowering Bilingual Latino Students' Identity Development with Diverse Culturally Relevant Literature" in E. R. Clark, B. B. Flores, & D. A. González (Eds.) Multicultural Literature for Latino Bilingual Children: Their Words, Their Worlds Second Edition.
• Professor Seema Imam co-authored Chapter 16, “Looking Back and Re-envisioning the Future: Islamic Schools in the United States,” in the book Islamic Philosophy of Education: Principles and Application, edited by Shaikh Abdul Mabud. 
• NCE authors published two articles in the Illinois Reading Council Journal (Winter 25–26, Vol. 54, No. 1). Professor Kristin Lems authored “Confessions of a Beginning Dutch Learner.” Professor Sophie Degener co-authored “Professional Development: Teaching for Tumultuous Times” with Dr. Adelfio Garcia, alumnus, and Dr. Ivy Sitkoski, adjunct alumna.
• Assistant Professor Blanca Gamez-Djokic published "From Effective to Affective Research-Practice Partnerships (RPP): Bridging Empirical and Post-Qualitative Approaches to Study RPPs as Affective Cultural Forms" in Qualitative Inquiry, January 2026.
• Associate Professor Xiuwen Wu and NLU's Director of Engaged Research Shaunti Knauth published the research article "Applying a Practice of Data Framework: An Explorative Study of Coteachers’ Use of Student Data" in the American Journal of Education (AJE).
• ISTE’s Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education highlighted outcomes of NCE emerita faculty member Dr. Arlene Borthwick’s work on Q Methodology in an editorial entitled “The power of perspective: Using Q methodology to deepen technology infusion in teacher education.”
• Assistant Professor Ben Lathrop published the article "Teaching Literature in a Post-Truth World: Three Strategies for Integrating Critical Media Epistemology into Literature Curricula" in Changing English, 1-16, 2026.
• Professor Emeritus Carlos M. Azcoitia has shared his educational opinion article “How We Transform Ourselves to Achieve Academic, Community, and Personal Success” published in The Ignatian, Volume 9/Year 9, #1.
• Professor Eun Kyung Ko published “Culturally Responsive STEM Teaching with Artificial Intelligence” in the Journal of STEM Teacher Education Vol. 60, No. 1.