Ana Floriani joined the Educational Studies faculty in fall of 1997. Professor Floriani taught elementary school before earning her master's degree and doctorate in Educational Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her interests are in the areas of elementary education; language, culture, and literacy; and teachers as researchers and learners. She teaches two of the curriculum and instruction courses, Language Arts and Reading (ED 340) and Social Studies and Human Relations (ED 330), Issues in Educational Research and Practice (ED 401), as well as a student teaching seminar. She also supervises student teachers, which allows her to bring together her experiences as a classroom teacher and researcher. As a classroom researcher, she has worked extensively with a bilingual teacher on an ethnographic research project that explored the social construction of knowledge and negotiation of meaning in fifth and sixth grade classrooms. As part of a collaborative research team she has presented at many national research and professional conferences and has coauthored several articles. Recent examples are:

Yeager, B., Floriani, A., & Green, J. L. (1998). Learning to see learning in the classroom: Developing an ethnographic perspective. In D. Bloome & A. Egan-Robertson (Eds.), Students as inquirers of language and culture in their classrooms (pp. 115-139). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Putney, L.G., Floriani A. (1999). Examining transformative processes and practices: A cross-case analysis of life in two bilingual classrooms. Journal of Classroom Interaction, 34 (2).