FACULTY & STAFF DIRECTORY

Teresa Buchanan Associate Professor Louisiana State University Department of Educational Theory, Policy, and Practice 101 Peabody Hall Baton Rouge, LA 70803-7101 Phone: 225-578-2444 FAX: 225-578-9135 tbuchan@lsu.edu

EDUCATION:
PhD 1993 Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Child Development and Family Studies - Early Childhood Education.

M.S. 1988 Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Human Ecology - Child Development

B.S. 1985 Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Business Administration - Management


RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Work and Family Issues
Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Reading Instruction

PUBLICATIONS:

Buchanan, T.K., & Benedict, J. (2007). Early childhood education students’ reflections: Volunteering after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 28(1), 83-88.

Buchanan, T.K., & Burts, D.C. (2007). Using children’s created cultures: Culturally appropriate practice in the primary grades. Early Childhood Education Journal. 34(5), 329-336.

DiCarlo, C.F., Burts, D.C., Buchanan, T.K., Aghayan, C., & Benedict, J. (2007). Making lemonade: Early childhood teacher educators’ programmatic responses to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 28(1), 61-68.

Aghayan, C., Schellhaas, A., Wayne, A., Burts, D., Buchanan, T., & Benedict, J. (2006). Project Katrina. Collaborations (Louisiana Early Childhood Association), 16-19.

Buchanan, T.K., & Burts, D.C. (2006). Using children’s created cultures: Culturally appropriate practice in the primary grades. [Electronic version] Early Childhood Education Journal.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/446006m061083053/

PRESENTATIONS:

Buchanan, T.K., Baumgartner, J., Donnelly, K., Braud, H.N., & DiCarlo, C. (2007, November). Developmentally appropriate teacher education: One attempt to practice what we preach. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), Chicago, Illinois.

Buchanan, T. K., Burts, D. C., Page, T., & Gil-Rivas, V. (2007, April). Teacher responses to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Boston, Massachusetts.

Buchanan, T.K., Burts, D.C., Morales, A. (2006, October). Louisiana teachers’ responses to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Presented at the Louisiana Early Childhood Association Conference, Alexandria, Louisiana.

 

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College of Education Participates in Study on Family Interaction in a Crisis

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