Faculty Vita

Judith Chafel, Ph.D.

Academic Degrees

Professional Experience

Faculty load

Faculty Teaching

Selected Publications

Chafel, J., & Reifel, S. Editors' introduction: The interface of theory with practice in early childhood teaching. In J. Chafel & S. Reifel (Eds.), Advances in Early Education and Day Care, Vol. 8 (pp. XI-XVI). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1997.

** Chafel, J., & Reifel, S. Theory and practice in early childhood teaching: Themes and advances. In J. Chafel & S. Reifel (Eds.), Advances in Early Education and Day Care, Vol. 8 (pp. 263-294). reenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1997.

** Chafel, J. Societal images of poverty: Child and adult beliefs. Youth and Society, 1997, 28 (4), pp. 432-463.

** Chafel, J. Children's views of poverty: A review of research and implications for teaching. The Educational Forum, 1997, 61 (4), pp. 360-371.

** Chafel, J. Schooling, the hidden curriculum, and children's conceptions of poverty. Social Policy Report (Society for Research in Child Development), 1997, 11 (1), pp. 1-18.

** Chafel, J., Fitzgibbons, S., Cutter, L., & Burke-Weiner, K. Poverty in books for young children: A content analysis. Early Child Development and Care, 1997, 139, pp.13-27.

** Chafel, J., & Hadley, K. Poverty and the well-being of children and families. In C. W. Walker & M. Roberts (Eds.), Handbook of Clinical Child Psychology (pp. 48-71). New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2001.

Chafel, J. Socially constructing concepts of self and other through play. Invited paper presented at the Second International Conference on Play, Krakow, Poland, October, 1998. Scheduled for publication by Wydawnictwa Szkolne i Pedagogiczne (a Polish publishing house).

** Chafel, J., & Sugioka, H. Head Start quality: A hierarchy of needs. Invited chapter scheduled to appear in E. Zigler & S. Styfco (Eds.), The Head Start Debates. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Funded Projects

"I'm going to beat you!": A naturalistic investigation of the use of social comparisons by young children, 1982. Funded ($5,900) by the Proffitt Endowment, Indiana University.

The effects of two types of play settings on young children's use of social comparison, 1985. Funded ($7,750) by the Spencer Foundation as a Seed Grant for Young Scholars.

Young children's preferences for temporal versus social comparison orientations of achievement: A developmental study, 1988. Funded ($8,500) by the Proffitt Endowment, Indiana University.

Childhood poverty: Adolescent pregnancy and parenting, 1991. Funded ($25,000) by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculties, Indiana University as a Multidisciplinary Seminars Grant.

Ideas about poverty communicated by young children in their verbal and nonverbal responses to literature, 1998. Funded ($12,000) by the Proffitt Endowment, Indiana University.

Ideas about poverty communicated by young children in their verbal and nonverbal responses to literature, 1998. Funded ($35,000) by the Spencer Foundation's Small Research Grants Program.

Instructional software and the early childhood/elementary school teacher, 1985. Funded ($12,436) with P. Kloosterman by the Indiana Consortium for Computer and High Technology Education.

Current Professional and Academic Association Memberships

American Educational Research Association

Indiana Association for the Education of Young Children

National Association for the Education of Young Children

National Society for the Study of Education

Conference Presentations

Theory and practice in early childhood teaching. Symposium presented (with Landon Beyer, Marianne Bloch, Marion Hyson, Margaret Kennedy, Sherry Lepine, Stuart Reifel, Barbara Scales, and Leslie Williams) at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL, March, 1997.

Poverty in books for young children: A sociological analysis. Paper (co-authored with Shirley Fitzgibbons, Lisa Cutter, and Kimberly Burke-Weiner) presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL, March, 1997.

** Theory and practice in early childhood teaching. Pre-conference session presented (with Marianne Bloch, Marion Hyson, Margaret Kennedy, Sherry Lepine, Stuart Reifel, Sharon Ryan, Barbara Scales, and Leslie Williams) at the Annual Meeting of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, Anaheim, CA, November, 1997.

** Images of poverty in children's literature. Paper (co-authored with Shirley Fitzgibbons, Lisa Cutter, and Kimberly Burke-Weiner) presented at the Spodek Symposium on Early Childhood Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, November, 1997.

Constructing knowledge about self and others through play. Invited plenary address presented at the Second International Conference on Play, Krakow, Poland, October, 1998.

Drawings about poverty: An analysis of children's ideas. Paper (co-authored with Carin Neitzel) presented to students and faculty in the Department of Developmental Psychology at the University of Rome (Italy), November, 2001.

Young children's ideas about poverty. Paper (co-authored with Carin Neitzel) presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA, April 2002.

Head Start: Funding a high-quality early intervention program for young children and families in poverty. Paper (co-authored with Heather Sugioka) presented at the Fifth International Conference on the Child (Children in Poverty: The Impact of Economic, Social and Political Choices) sponsored by the Organization for the Protection of Children's Rights (O.P.C.R.), Dorval, Quebec, May, 2002.

Service/Outreach Projects

M.S. Practicum Project Committees, 1991- 97.

Admissions Appeal Committee, Chairperson, 1991-92 .

Grade Inflation Committee, 1992.

Master's Degree Admissions Committee, 1993-present; Chairperson, 1994-present.

Third Year Review Committee, Chairperson, 1997.

Merit Review Committee, 1998.

Teacher Education Council, 1996-97; Chairperson, 1998-99.

Budgetary Affairs Committee, Chairperson, 1999-2002. Member of Pre-Screening Panel, Congressional Science and Engineering Fellowship Program, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1996; 1998- 2002.

Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Poverty: Innovations on Social, Political and Economic Inequalities, 1998-present.

Contributing Editor, American Journal of Orthopsychiartry, 2000-present.

Invited Participant, "Getting to positive outcomes for children in childcare: Second Workshop on Childcare Performance Measures," National Research Council/Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, February 28-29, 2000.

Honors/Awards

Congressional Science Fellowship, 1989-90. Funded ($33,750) by the Foundation for Child Development and the Lilly Endowment through the Society for Research in Child Development.

Research Leave Supplement, 1989-90. Funded ($5,024) by the Office of Research and Graduate Development, Indiana University.

Summer Faculty Fellowship in Curriculum Development, 1991. Funded ($4,500) by the Lilly Endowment through the Center on Philanthropy, Indiana University.

Overseas Conference Grant, 1998. Funded ($600) by the Office of International Programs, Indiana University.

REEI Mellon Endowment Faculty International Travel Grant, 1998. Funded ($250) by the Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University.