Area of Interest:
Social justice, education, and civic dialogue in the United States
Education:
BA Literature & Certificate in German Studies, Duke University, 1994
Research & Activities:
My dissertation work focuses on social identities and the development of political consciousness among children in elementary school classrooms in North Carolina. I have also studied the social production of genetic knowledge.Selected Publications:
Schaffer, R., Kuczynski K., & Skinner, D. (2008). Producing Genetic Knowledge and Citizenship through the Internet: Mothers, Pediatric Genetics, and Cybermedicine. Sociology of Health and Illness, 30(1): 145-159.
Skinner,
D., & Schaffer, R. (2006). Families
and Genetic Diagnoses in the Genomic and Internet Age. Infants & Young Children, 19(1):16–24
Schaffer,
R., Skinner, D., Morgan, T., & Buysse, V. (2004). Social Identity in
Diverse Schools. Early Developments, 8(1):19-21. Available online at http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~ncedl/PDFs/ED8_1.pdf
Brown, J.D., Schaffer, R., Vargas, L., & Romocki, L.S. (2004). Popular Media Culture and the Promise of Critical Media Literacy. In S.F. Hamilton & M.A. Hamilton (Eds), The Youth Development Handbook: Coming of Age in American Communities. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
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