Jennifer Whitcomb, PhD

Selected Publications
(For complete list of publications, please see the faculty member's curriculum vitae.)

Articles
Whitcomb, J., & Liston, D., & Borko, H. (2008). Why Teach? Part II. Journal of Teacher Education, 59(4).

Borko, H., Whitcomb, J., & Liston, D. (2008). An education president for the 21st century: Introducing eight letters to the 44th president of the United States. Journal of Teacher Education, 59(3), 207-211.

Liston, D., Borko, H. & Whitcomb, J. (2008). The teacher educator’s role in enhancing teacher quality. Journal of Teacher Education, 59(2), 111-116.

Whitcomb, J. Borko, H., & Liston, D. (2007). Why teach? Journal of Teacher Education, 59(1), 3-9.

Borko, H., Liston, D., & Whitcomb, J. (2007). Apples and fishes: The debate over dispositions in teacher education. Journal of Teacher Education, 58(5), 359-364.

Borko, H., Liston, D., & Whitcomb, J. (2007). Conversations that renew. Journal of Teacher Education, 58(4), 263-268.

Whitcomb, J., Borko, H., & Liston, D. (2007). Stranger than fiction: Arthur Levine's Education school teachers-The basis for a proposal. Journal of Teacher Education, 58(3), 195-201.

Liston, D. P., Whitcomb, J., & Borko, H. (2007). NCLB and scientifically-based research. Journal of Teacher Education, 58(2), 99-107.

Borko, H., Liston, D., Whitcomb, J. (2007). Genres of empirical research in teacher education. Journal of Teacher Education, 58(1), 3-11.

Whitcomb, J., Borko, H., & Liston, D. (2006). Living in the tension-Living with the heat. Journal of Teacher Education, 57(5), 447-453.

Liston, D., Whitcomb, J., & Borko, H. (2006). Too little or too much: Teacher preparation and the first years of teaching. Journal of Teacher Education, 57(4), 351-358.

Borko, H., Liston, D., Whitcomb, J. (2006). A conversation among many voices: Critiques and visions of teacher education. Journal of Teacher Education, 57(3), 199-204.

Whitcomb, J. A.(2004). Dilemmas of design and predicaments of practice: Adapting the 'fostering a community of learners' model in secondary school English language arts classrooms. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 36(2), 183-206.

Whitcomb, J. A.(2002). Composing dilemma cases: An opportunity to examine the moral dimensions of teaching. Teaching Education, 13(2), 179-201. Journal homepage: http://www.tandf.co.uk

Book Chapters
Cossentino, J., & Whitcomb, J. A.(2007). Peace as a premise for learning: Maria Montessori 1870-1952. In D. Hansen (Ed.), Educational ideas have consequences: Ethical visions of the philosophy and practice of education (pp. 111-125). New York: Teachers College Press.

Whitcomb, J. A. (2003). Learning and pedagogy in initial teacher preparation. In W. M. Reynolds & G. E. Miller, (Eds.) & I. B. Weiner (Editor in Chief), Handbook of psychology, volume 7: Educational psychology (pp. 533-556). New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Cohen, E. G., Bianchini, J., Cossey, R., Holthius, N., Morphew, C., & Whitcomb, J. A. (1997). What did students learn?: 1982-1994. In E. Cohen & R. Lotan (Eds.), Working for equity in heterogeneous classrooms: Sociological theory and practice. New York: Teachers College Press.

Cohen, E. G., Lotan, R. A., Whitcomb, J. A., Balderrama, M., Cossey, R., & Swanson, P. (1994). Complex instruction: Higher order thinking in heterogeneous classrooms. In S. Sharan (Ed.), Handbook of cooperative learning methods (pp. 82-96). Westport, CT: Greenwood.

Cohen, E. G., Lotan, R. A., & Whitcomb, J. A. (1992). Complex instruction in the untracked social studies classroom. In R. J. Stahl & R. L. VanSickle (Eds.), Cooperative learning in the social studies: An introduction to social inquiry (pp. 52-58). Washington, DC: National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS).