Dr. Beth White
Professor
Office
DEG Degarmo Hall
Office Hours
by appointment
- About
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Biography
Elizabeth White, Ph.D., is a Professor in the School of Teaching and Learning. She currently teaches courses related to child development and early childhood education. Her research interests include children’s civic engagement, teachers’ civic practices, and culturally responsive teaching. Dr. White formerly taught elementary school in Atlanta, GA.
Current Courses
TCH 210.001 Child Growth And Development: Early Childhood and Elementary Education
TCH 292.001 Early Childhood Education Clinical I
TCH 278.002 Practices & Issues In Early Childhood Education
Teaching Interests & Areas
Child Development, Learning Theories, Early Childhood & Elementary Education
Research Interests & Areas
Children's Civic Engagement, Teachers' Civic Practices, Culturally Responsive Teaching, Preservice Teacher Preparation
PhD Education
University of California, Los Angeles
MA Education
University of California, Los Angeles
Other Early Childhood
Mercer University, Tifit College of Education
Atlanta, GA
BA Psychology
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC
ISU Impact Award
Illinois State University
2017
SRCD Dissertation Funding Award
Society for Research in Child Development
2011
Norma and Seymour Feshbach Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
UCLA
2010
Book, Chapter
A mixed methods approach to equity and justice research: Insights from research on children's reasoning about economic inequality
Rashmita S Mistry, Elizabeth White, Kirby A Chow, Katherine M Griffin, Lindsey Nenadal.
(2016), 50, 209--236, Advances in child development and behavior, JAI
Journal Article
Preservice Elementary Teachers and Future Civic Teaching
Elizabeth S White.
The Journal of Social Studies Research, (2024), 10.1177/23522798241252939
Parent Values, Civic Participation, and Children's Volunteering
Elizabeth White.
Children and Youth Services Review, 127, (2021), 10.1016/j.childyouth.2021.106115
Service-Learning to Develop Responsiveness Among Preservice Teachers
Elizabeth White.
International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 15 (1), 1-9, (2021), 10.20429/ijsotl.2021.150109
The canned food drive: What do students learn?
Elizabeth S. White.
Social Studies Research and Practice, (2021)
Mixed Methods Research to Improve Course Design for Preservice Teachers
Elizabeth White, Kyle Miller.
International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 13 (1), (2019)
Teachers' Civic Socialization Practices and Children's Civic Engagement
Elizabeth White, Mistry, Rashmita, A..
Applied Developmental Science, 23 (2), 183--202, (2019)
Parent civic beliefs, civic participation, socialization practices, and child civic engagement
Elizabeth White, Rashmita S Mistry.
Applied Developmental Science, 20 (1), 44--60, (2016)
Elementary school children's reasoning about social class: A mixed-methods study
Rashmita S Mistry, Christia S Brown, Elizabeth White, Kirby A Chow, Cari Gillen-O'Neel.
Child development, 86 (5), 1653--1671, (2015)
How do teachers talk about economic inequality? The complexity of teaching at a socioeconomically integrated elementary school
Elizabeth White, Rashmita S Mistry, Kirby A Chow.
Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 13 (1), 370--394, (2013)
A longitudinal study of the simultaneous influence of mothers’ and teachers’ educational expectations on low-income youth’s academic achievement
Rashmita S Mistry, Elizabeth White, Aprile D Benner, Virginia W Huynh.
Journal of youth and adolescence, 38 (6), 826--838, (2009)
Other
Civic Engagement in the Upper Elementary Grades: An Examination of Parent and Teacher Practices and Children's Civic Identity
Elizabeth White.
UCLA, (2012)
Extensions of the Family Economic Stress Model: Material Hardship and Youth Economic Worry in Low-income Populations
Elizabeth White.
University of California, Los Angeles, (2009)
Presentations
Flexible Student Teaching Options Supporting and Advancing the Early Childhood Workforce Through An Alternative Bachelors' Degree Completion Program
Linda Ruhe Marsh, Elizabeth White, Nicole Offutt, Amanda Quesenberry.
2025 Gateways Higher Education Faculty Forum, Bloomington, IL, April 10, 2025
Flexible Models for Student Teaching
Linda Ruhe Marsh, Elizabeth White.
ECACE Convocation, Springfield, IL, June, 2024
Student Experiences in an Alternative Teacher Preparation Program for Early Childhood Educators
Elizabeth White, Amanda Quesenberry.
SoTL Commons Conference, Savannah, GA, February, 2024
Elevating the ECE workforce: Alternative pathways to degree completion.
Amanda Quesenberry, Elizabeth S. White, Linda Ruhe Marsh.
Sharing a Vision Conference, Peoria, IL, October, 2023
Teaching about the presidential election in K-8 classrooms: A qualitative study
Elizabeth S. White.
Annual Association of Teacher Educators Conference, Jacksonville, FL, March, 2023
Preservice teachers’ future civic teaching
Elizabeth S. White.
The Annual Association of Teacher Educators Conference, Chicago, IL, February, 2022
Community service to develop responsiveness among preservice teachers
Elizabeth S. White, Stephen Poggendorf.
Association of Teacher Educators Annual Conference, Online, February, 2021