Faculty Vita

Mary McMullen, Ph.D.

Academic Degrees

Professional Experience

Faculty load

Faculty Teaching

Selected Publications

McMullen, M. B. (2001). Distinct in beliefs/united in concerns: Listening to strongly DAP and strongly traditional k/primary teachers. Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 22, 122-133.

McMullen, M. B. (2000). Mediators of beliefs and practices in early childhood education in the U.S. Proceedings of Association for Future Early Childhood Education, Korea, 10, 2-54.

McMullen, M. B. (1999). Research in review: Achieving best practices in infant and toddler care and education. Young Children. 54(4), 69-76.

McMullen, M. B. (1999). Characteristics of teachers who talk the DAP talk AND walk the DAP walk. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 13(2), 216-230.

McMullen, M. B. (1998). The beliefs and practices of early childhood educators: Does specialized preparation make a difference in the adoption of best practices? International Journal of Early Childhood Education, 3, 5-30.

McMullen, M. B. (1998). Thinking before doing: A giant toddler step on the road to literacy. Young Children, 53(3), 65-70.

McMullen, M. B. (1997). Effects of early childhood teacher education on self perceptions & beliefs about developmentally appropriate practices. Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 18(3), 55-68.

Funded Projects

Monroe County Children Matter! (http://www.indiana.edu/~ectesite/cape/) Funded by the Eli Lilly Endowment for $5 million for the Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County for a program, Monroe County Children Matter! which will create an integrated network of education resources and support for children, birth to age 18, and their families by establishing several neighborhood Family Resource Centers in our community and implementing comprehensive family literacy sites in most of our schools. Co-authored with Michael Conn-Powers from the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community

Differences, Commonalities and Universalities in Early Childhood Education in the U.S. and Three Non-Western Democratic Nations. Funded for $40,000 from the Proffitt Internal Grant Competition (January 2002 to December 2003) and funded for $10,000 from the Proffitt Summer Faculty Fellowship (Summer 2002)

Facilitating Multicultural Research & Dialogue About Best Practices in Early Childhood Education. Funded for $15,000 by the Fund for the Advancement of Peace and Education: Creative Paths to Peace through IU's School of Education (2001-2002)

Mediators of Best Practices in Early Childhood Education: Beliefs and Practices of K-2nd Grade Teachers in Southern and Central Indiana. Funded for $15,000 through the Proffitt Internal Grant Competition (1999)

Indiana's Project T.E.A.C.H.: Teacher Education and Compensation Helps in Indiana, written on behalf of the Indiana Association for the Education of Young Children. Co-written with Cathie Bennett. Funded for $2 million through Indiana's Child Care Fund Board for 3 years of operation, 1999-2001

Support for National Accreditation for Indiana Childcare Centers and Family Daycare Homes, written on behalf of the Indiana Association for the Education of Young Children. Funded for $40,000 by the Indiana Bureau of Child Development Child Care Development Fund, 1998

Making Meaning through Music and Movement. Funded for the cost of production of a video documentary by Indiana University Instructional Media Support Services, 1998

Current Professional and Academic Association Memberships

National Association for the Education of Young Children

National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators

American Educational Research Association

World Organization for Early Childhood Education (l'Organisation Mondiale pour l'Education Prescolaire-OMEP)

Society for Research in Child Development

Association for Childhood Education International

Zero to Three

Children's Defense Fund

Conference Presentations

April 2002- Universalities and commonalities underlying conceptions of quality early childhood care and education. Presentation with Cary Buzzelli (Indiana University), and Jenny Ritchie and Leslie Remaka (University of Waikato, New Zealand) for the World Forum on Early Care and Education, Auckland, New Zealand

November 2, 2001-Facilitating dialogue in a multicultural graduate seminar about "best practice" in our global early childhood community. Presentation for l'Organisation Mondiale pour l'Education Prescolaire (OMEP) at the National Association for the Education of Young Children's Annual Conference, Anaheim, California

April 20, 2001-Beliefs of preschool teachers in China and the U.S.: A cross-cultural comparison. Presentation with Jianhong Wang and James Elicker (Purdue University) at the Society for Research in Child Development's Bi-Annual Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota

March 10, 2001-Hoosier early childhood educators: Who are we? And, what do we believe about best practice with young children? Presentation for the Indiana Early Childhood Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana

March 9, 2001-Comparison of U.S. & Korean early childhood education. Presentation with graduate student Sun Mi Lee for the Indiana Center on Early Childhood Development at the Indiana Early Childhood Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana

February 12, 2001-Listening to highly efficacious but philosophically opposite k-primary teachers: How it can and should inform early childhood teacher education. Presentation for the Opening Gates in Teacher Education Online Conference for Teacher Educators, Moffet Institute, Israel

November, 2000-From Australia to Zimbabwe: Exploring our global early childhood community. Presentation with graduate students Sun Mi Lee, Mehmet Buldu, Kazim Alat, Volkan Sahin, Che Yu Kuo, and Judi Johnson-Stevens for the National Association for the Education of Young Children's Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia

October 31, 2000-A comparison of U.S. and Korean early childhood professionals' beliefs about best practices with young children. Presentation for the faculty and students of Soonchunhyang University in Onyang, Korea

October 28, 2000-Mediators of beliefs and practices in U.S. early childhood classrooms: Implications for 21st century early childhood teacher educators. Featured paper presentation for the Association for Future Early Childhood Education (AFECE) International Symposium in Seoul, Korea

June 9, 2000-Achieving best practices in infant/toddler care and education. Keynote address for the Current Issues in Infant/Toddler Development and Care Annual Conference, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, Wisconsin

April 27, 2000-Impact of efficacy beliefs, educational background, experience, and current context on k/primary practices and student literacy outcomes. Presentation for the American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana

April 15, 2000-Exploring our global early childhood community. Interactive poster session with J637 Early Childhood Teacher Education Seminar graduate students for the Early Childhood Education State Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana

November 12, 1999-Encouraging the implementation of developmentally appropriate practices: Building stronger bridges between philosophy and practice in early primary teachers. Presentation for the National Association for the Education of Young Children's Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana

November 10, 1999-Mediators of best practices in kindergarten and primary teachers. Roundtable presentation for the National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators' Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana

April 23, 1999-Specialized preservice preparation in early childhood education: Does it make a difference in pre-k through primary grade teachers? Presentation for American Educational Research Association's Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada

Service/Outreach Projects

Editorial Board, Early Childhood Research and Practice, 2001-2003

Board Member, American Educational Research Association's (AERA) Early Education/Child Development SIG, 2001-2003; overseeing creation of new web site http://www.iu.edu/~eecdsig/

Consulting Editor, National Association for the Education of Young Children's publication, Young Children, 1999 to 2001; Regular reviewer, NAEYC research publication, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1999 to present; Reviewer for NAEYC on-line proposal submission for 2002 national conference, research tract

Consultant, Governor Frank O'Bannon's Building Bright Beginnings Campaign, 1998-1999 and 2001

Vice-President, Indiana Association for the Education of Young Children 1998-2000; Governing Board Member, 1996-2000

Reviewer, American Educational Research Association's American Educational Research Journal, 1999

Honors/Awards

Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award for 2000 (awarded in 2001) and for 2001 (awarded in 2002)

awarded to top 5% of IU professors in teaching Teaching Excellence Recognition Award IU, School of Education 1996, 1997, 1998

Practitioner of the Year, South Central Association for the Education of Young Children, April 2001

Teacher of the Year, Indiana Association for the Education of Young Children, March 1997

Sallie Mae Teacher Tribute Award, 1997