Mission
To promote collaboration and mutual understanding of the United States and Indonesia through higher education partnerships
To strengthen institutional capacity in teacher education through collaborative development of innovative educational programs and research to be conducted in the U.S. and Indonesia
The U.S./Indonesia Teacher Education Consortium (USINTEC)
A binational higher education consortium
The Alliance for Teacher Quality (ATQ)
A public-private global development alliance of universities, corporations, foundations, and organizations committed to Indonesian education and teacher quality
Partner Institution - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Marilyn Johnston-Parsons
Professor
Institutional Director, USINTEC
Department of Curriculum & Instruction
College of Education
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
325 Education Building
1310 S. 6th Street MC 708
Champaign, IL 61820
Phone: (217) 244-3577
E-mail: marilynj@illinois.edu
Dr. Marilyn Johnston-Parsons was an elementary public school teacher for 15 years in California and Utah. She received her PhD in Social and Cultural Foundations from the University of Utah where she taught from 1979 to 1988. She then joined the College of Education at Ohio State University. At Ohio State she taught courses in social studies, social foundations, and action research. For 11 years she was co-coordinator of the Educators for Collaborative Change (ECC) Professional Development School (PDS), working with local schools to prepare future teachers. The PDS was focused on teacher education reform, professional development, inquiry, and issues of diversity. Since 2005 she has been a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She teaches courses in social studies and teacher education and works with many international doctoral students. Dr. Johnston-Parsons publishes widely in the areas of university-school collaboration and reform, professional development schools, action research, and social justice in teacher education. She has lectured in universities in East and Southeast Asia and Latin America and completed overseas assignments at the Indonesia University of Education and State Universities of Jakarta, Malang, and Surabaya.
Yuni Sari Amalia
Graduate Assistant
Department of Curriculum & Instruction
College of Education
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
E-mail: yamalia2@illinois.edu
Yuni Sari Amalia is a graduate student in the MA program in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She is currently sponsored by the Fulbright Foundation. She has a B.A. in English Language and Literature with a minor in American Studies from Diponegoro University, Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia. She has been a lecturer at Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia, since 2002. Sari's research interests include educational reform in Indonesia and the US, particularly in the area of teacher education. She is interested in investigating the development of language, literacy, and numeracy in young children as well as cultural influences on teachers and students' perceptions of identity.