RESEARCH

The KU School of Education & Human Sciences offers students, faculty and instructors access to a variety of campus-based labs, resources and technology services. As a student, you’ll have the opportunity to conduct research directly under the supervision of faculty members who are renowned scholars and established leaders in their fields of study. Here are just a few examples.

Black male teachers, movies and Hollywood stereotypes

The scripts of the most popular Hollywood films depicting Black male teachers from late ’60s onward are all derived from anti-Black social science scholarship’s depictions of Black fathers, a new study published by Daniel Thomas III, assistant professor of curriculum & teaching, finds. “The bodies of Black men and boys are discursively rearranged within movie scripts to quench America’s thirst for pathological representations of Blackness,” Thomas said.

Preparing educators in an era of change

“How do you feel about preparing teachers in an era of change in higher education?”

That’s the question at the center of a new book co-written by Heidi Hallman, professor of curriculum & teaching. At the Crossroads of Pedagogical Change in Higher Education chronicles the history of centers for teaching and learning, drawing on interviews with faculty developers and the literature of the field and higher education.

Effects of overtraining on muscle

A new study by researchers in KU’s Jayhawk Athletic Performance Laboratory explores the role of hyaluronic acid in muscles and what happens when fit people overtrain.

“We want to understand what happens when you push things, because that’s what athletes do, they push themselves to the limit,” said Andy Fry, professor of health, sport & exercise sciences, lab director and study co-author.

Lessons in leadership from youth sports

Jordan Bass, chair and associate professor of health, sport & exercise sciences, couldn’t find a book that offered lessons in teamwork and growing from athletic failure for young athletes. So he wrote one himself. “The Youth Sports Handbook” serves as a guide for young people wanting to learn about the soft skills of sports.

For more information about labs and research within the School, visit hses.ku.edu/ mission-vision/ research-labs