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Mona W. Matthews, Ph.D.

Professor
Co-Director - Collaborative Master's Program
Room 550
Phone: 404-413-8225
Email:  ecerwm@langate.gsu.edu

Department of Early Childhood Education
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 3980
Atlanta, GA 30302-3980


Education

Ph.D., University of Georgia

M.Ed., Georgia State University

B.S.E., Georgia State University

 

Bio  

Dr. Mona Matthews is a former preschool and elementary teacher. She also worked as an educational consultant for Harper & Row Publishers.  As a member of the graduate faculty at Georgia State University, Dr. Matthews works with doctoral students to prepare them for their future roles as teacher educators and researchers.  She co-directs with Dr. Lynn Hart the Collaborative Master’s program, a unique graduate program guided by principles of constructivist learning theory.  Dr. Matthews’ publications describing this work have appeared in several national journals including Language Arts, Action in Teacher Education, and The Journal of Professional Studies.  As a researcher, Dr. Matthews studies children’s interactions during peer-only literacy events. This work is focused on exploring issues related to the children’s social, reading, and individual development and how these converge when children work together without a teacher present.  Dr. Matthews’ published work in this area has appeared in several national journals including Reading Research Quarterly, Journal of Literacy Research, Reading Research and Instruction, and The Reading Teacher.

In 1997, Dr. Matthews, along with Dr. John Kesner, were recipients of the Elva Knight Research Grant Award from the International Reading Association for promising research in the field of reading.  Additionally, she has served on the editorial review boards for Reading Research Quarterly, Journal of Literacy Research, Reading Research and Instruction and the conference yearbooks of the College Reading Association and the American Reading Forum.  Dr. Matthews recently was elected as Vice President of the College Reading Association and will assume the presidency in 2009.