Dannielle Joy Davis, Ph.D.

For Faculty

Assistant Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
College of Education and Health Professions

UT Arlington Faculty

Dr. Dannielle Joy Davis is a tenure-track, Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Education Policy Studies, as well as two master’s degrees in Higher Education Administration and Public Administration from the University of Missouri at Kansas City. She holds experience in the classroom at both the K-12 and postsecondary levels. As an international scholar, she has studied and conducted research in Ghana, South Africa, Egypt, Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium. Her interdisciplinary research examines the experiences of marginalized groups in educational settings. She has published over 20 refereed journal articles, book chapters, academic commentaries, and reviews.

Service Learning Class

EDAD 5380: Diversity in Educational Settings

Academic Outcomes

Site partners will identify a need within a diverse population and students will investigate and report on how the need might be addressed.
Students will reflect on contemporary diversity issues as they relate to practice through various assignments.

Service Learning Project

Sustainability and Academic Success: Narrowing the Educational Achievement Gap via Environmentally Conscious Leadership

For select K-12 schools in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, service learning partners will identify needs for diverse populations at their sites. Participating students will investigate and report on how these needs might be addressed via policy briefs or grant applications for resources. They will also be required to complete critical structured reflections that apply related content from articles, book chapters, and documentaries to their service work experiences in these schools. Assessment of student learning will take into account reflection and application of the material in these educational work settings, whether they are principals or teachers.

Catalog Description

Effective leadership, instruction, and management strategies for work in diverse educational settings will be covered. The course is designed to provide increased self-awareness and insight into issues of diversity such as culture, ethnicity, exceptionality, gender, language, and socioeconomic status. Demographic issues along with urban and suburban educational settings will also be addressed.

Partners

Select Forth Worth and Dallas Schools

Product/Result

Students will write grants or policy briefs for select schools in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. They will also be required to complete critical structured reflections (Ash et al, 2007), that apply related content from articles, book chapters, and documentaries to their service work experiences in these schools. Assessment of student learning will take into account reflection and application of the material to these educational work settings, whether they are principals or teachers.