Patricia Crawford

Patricia Crawford
School of Education
University of Pittsburgh
5330 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
PHONE: 412-648-7558
EMAIL: pcrawfor@pitt.edu

• Overview
• Publications
• Presentations
• Professional Participation
• Grants and Research
• Curriculum Vita

Full Time Faculty - Associate Professor

School Affiliations

• Department: Instruction and Learning
• Program: Early Childhood Education - Associate Professor

Education

• Ph.D. Curriculum & Instruction, Language & Literacy/Early Childhood Education, Pennsylvania State University,

Recent Publications

Book Chapters

• Crawford, P.A. (2009). Writing development (pp. 290-311). In A. Brice & R. Brice (Eds.), Language development: Monolingual and bilingual acquisition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Journal Articles

• Crawford, P.A., Roberts, S.K., & Hickmann, R. (in press). All together now: Authentic university-school partnerships for professional development. Childhood Education.
• Roberts, S.K. & Crawford, P.A. (in press). Real life calls for real books: Using literature to help children cope with family stressors. Young Children.
• Crawford, P.A. & Zygouris-Coe, V. (2008). Those were the days: Learning about history through literature. Childhood Education, 84, 197-203.

Reviews

• Crawford, P.A. (in press). Review of Literature is back! Using the best books for teaching readers and writers across genres, by Carol J. Fuhler & Maria P. Walther. Childhood Education.
• Crawford, P.A. (2007). Review of Black ants and Buddhists: Teaching critically and thinking differently in the primary grades, by Mary Cowhey. Childhood Education, 83, 330.

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Recent Course Instruction

Fall 2008 (2091)

• IL 1901 - NATURE OF THE YOUNG CHILDREN
• IL 2691 - SUPERVISED RESEARCH - EARLY CHILDHOOD
• IL 2698 - DIRECTED STUDY - EARLY CHILDHOOD
• IL 2903 - TEACHING PRIMARY-AGED CHILDREN 2

Summer 2008 (2087)

• IL 2206 - RDNG & LANG ARTS PRIM GRADES
• IL 2698 - DIRECTED STUDY - EARLY CHILDHOOD

Spring 2008 (2084)

• IL 2691 - SUPERVISED RES - EARLY CHILDHOOD
• IL 2698 - DIRECTED STUDY - EARLY CHILDHOOD
• IL 2902 - TEACHING PRIMARY-AGED CHILDREN 1

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Recent Presentations

• Crawford, P.A. & Calabria, K. (2008, March). Make new friends, but keep the old: Nurturing inclusive friendships through literature and learning. Annual Conference of the Association for Childhood Education International. Atlanta, Georgia.
• Crawford, P.A. & Roberts, S.K. (2008, March). We’re in it together: Exploring the perceptions of teachers in a three-year collaborative professional development program. Association for Childhood Education International. Atlanta, Georgia.

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Current Professional Participation

• Assocation for Childhood Education International (ACEI)
  • Publications Committee Member
• International Reading Assocation (IRA)
  • Periodic Reviewer of Manuscripts
• National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
  • Consulting Editors Panel

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Recent Grants

• Crawford, P.A. (2008). The Wordless Book Nook Project. Association for Childhood Education International Elizabeth Breathwaite Mini-Grant. $500. (Role: Wrote proposal for service-based research project on young children’s readings of wordless books).

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