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The Department provides foundation courses that serve as valuable underpinnings for graduate students pursuing professional preparation programs in other graduate departments at Gallaudet. These include courses in educational psychology, multicultural education, social science statistics, research methods, school law, and other areas. Students learn to work collaboratively with professionals from other fields.
Our Mission
The Department of Educational Foundations and Research's mission and vision correspond with Gallaudet University's and the Graduate School of Professional Programs' mission and vision. Specifically the Department of Educational Foundations and Research utilizes a transformative framework to provide degrees in International Development as well as foundational courses for other degree programs within Gallaudet University's professional training programs. DEFR course work provides connections across Professional Education Programs that allow students to develop critical thinking skills, obtain experiences with interdisciplinary connections, explore multiple social and professional identities, and understand social responsibility in the context of their preparation as teachers, counselors, administrators, school psychologists, speech and language professionals, and international development specialists who serve deaf and hard of hearing people and people with disabilities.
The Department of Educational Foundations and Research also offers:
Recent Department Activities
.JPG) International Development students viewed the premier of the film, "La Americana" at the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB). The film centers around a Bolivian woman who makes a dangerous and illegal journey to New York City knowing she may never return home, to earn enough money to pay for the medical care needed for her disabled daughter. Pictured here is the director of the film, Nicholas Bruckman, (center) with Eirin Kallestad (second from left) from the IADB, and graduate students Kathleen Wijiting, Sarah Houge, and ID graduate, Lisa Fisher.
International Development Graduate Students (from left), Amii Limpp, Ni car Bocalan and Dayak Dashuwar, attended Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI) 15th year anniversary celebration on Tuesday Oct. 20th. MDRI presented Congressman Patrick Kennedy with the Human Rights Award. This celebration had an amazing line up of inspiring speakers featuring Executive Director of MDRI Eric Rosenthal, Entrepreneur and Investment Banker Ted Kennedy Jr,. and Ecuadorian Ambassador Luis Gallegos. Congressman Patrick Kennedy called for a united front against genocide, torture and abuse of people with disabilities.
Sarah Houge, a second year student in the international development master’s program, presents a gift of thanks to David  Morrissey, executive director of the United States International Council on Disability (USICD), for speaking to students about USICD’s work in advocating for the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Morrissey also spoke to the students about the importance of working, writing, and volunteering during their graduate studies in areas that build their portfolio and moves them in the direction of their desired careers.
 Graduate School Dean Carol Erting (left), and Educational Foundations and Research Department Chair Barbara Gerner De Garcia (right) congratulate Educational Foundations and Research professor Donna Mertens on the publication of three of her books in the past year. Dr. Mertens authored Research and Evaluation in Education and Psychology: Integrating Diversity with Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods (Sage, 2010, now in its third edition), and Transformative Research and Evaluation (Guilford Press, 2009). She is co-editor of The Handbook of Social Research Ethics (co-edited by Pauline Ginsberg, Sage, 2009).
The American Evaluation Asociation (AEA) recognized Dr. Mertens in their October 2009 newsletter:
Donna M. Mertens, a professor at Gallaudet University and author most recently of Transformative Research and Evaluation, will be honored with AEA's Paul F. Lazarsfeld Theory Award. Donna, a prolific writer/author, served as AEA president in 1998 and helped found AEA's Diversity Initiative. She has made lifelong contributions to evaluation theory through teaching, presenting and practice. She currently teaches research methods and program evaluation to graduate-level deaf and hearing students in multiple programs including education, administration, psychology, social work, audiology, and international development and is editor of the Journal of Mixed Methods Research.
 Dr. Donna Mertens, a professor in the Department of Educational Foundations and Research, was invited to make presentations in several international venues during the summer months. She presented "Theoretical Groundings in Mixed Methods Research: A Transformative View" at the International Mixed Methods Conference in Harrogate, England, where the formal announcement was made of her accepting the editorship of the Journal of Mixed Methods Research. The co-editor is Max Bergmann of the University of Basel, Switzerland. Mertens presented "Transformative Research, Ethics, Inequality, and Human Rights" at the University of Johannesburg, and "Transformative Research: The Complexities That Challenge" at the North-West University in Potchefstroom, South Africa, where she also conducted professional development activities. She gave two presentations, "Transformative Mixed Methods Research" and "Researcher-Participant Partnerships: Radicalizing the Relationship and Exploring Ethical Options," at the American Psychological Association meeting in Toronto, Canada. (On The Green, Gallaudet University, 10/09)
The Faculty Development Committee awarded funding to Dr. Amy Wilson to attend and be featured as a Noted Speaker at the Pacific Rim International Conference on Disabilities in Honolulu speaking on “Improving Development Assistance to Deaf Communities in Developing Countries: Transforming Dependency into Empowerment”.
Dr. Wilson presenting at PacRim Conference
Instituto de la Sordera (INDESOR) in Santiago, Chile. Students in the Fall 2008 Multicultural Foundations of Education class raised almost $300 to buy children's books in Spanish which were donated to the school when invited course instructor, Dr. Barbara Gerner de Garcia, made a visit to the Institute. Lucia Rojas, Director of the school, is an alumna of the Dept of Education, Gallaudet University.
Under the patronage of His Royal Highness Crown Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz, Prince Salman Center for Disability Research hosted the Third International Conference on Disability Research the 22nd to the 26th of March, 2009, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The goal of the conference was to examine and promote the role of research in preventing disability and improving the quality of life of individuals with disabilities, and the means of facilitating that through international partnerships targeted at high impact research. Dr. Amy Wilson presented the importance of incuding Deaf stakeholders in all aspects of research.
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Dr. Wilson with a Deaf leader from Tunisia and two Deaf leaders from Saudi Arabia
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Those are real camels with Dr. Khalid and Dr. Wilson!
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Dr. Donna Mertens and Dr. Amy Wilson from the Department of Educational Foundations and Research are pictured signing a contract with Guilford Publications for their writing of "Program Evaluation", a 560 page textbook that they will complete for Spring 2011 distribution.
On-Campus Presentations
 Carol Duffy visited Gallaudet and presented her documentary, Deaf: Hear Me, a film used by the Deaf community in New Delhi, India to increase awareness, change attitudes and create more equitable opportunities for Deaf people in India. The film was well-received and after the screening, several audience members stated the film reflects many of the same challenges they, too, face whether born in developing countries or in the United States.
World Bank Workshop on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Gallaudet University – Washington D.C.
ASL interpreted
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Attorney Katherine Guernsey, Charlotte McClain Nhlapo of the World Bank, and Michael Stein of Harvard Project on Disability participated in the workshop.
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