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Interview with Zac Johnson on Student-to-Student Confirmation in a College Setting

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11/06/2024

By: Ann Sadek, Nicole Strang, Lauren Rosbottom, & Abigail Chertock

Dr. Zac D. Johnson is an associate professor at California State University, Fullerton. His work is in the Department of Human Communication Studies. After years of experience, he’s in his first semester as the department chair. Dr. Johnson’s primary research pertains to the way students communicate inside and outside of the classroom environment and subsequent effects that follow. His work is featured in many places, including Communication Research Reports, Communication Education, Communication Quarterly, and more. We were pleased to have the opportunity to sit down and discuss his published research, From student-to-student confirmation to students’ self-determination: an integrated peer-centered model of self-determination theory in the classroom.

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Dr. Kressler “Learning Are Way Through Critical Development For social Justice”

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By: Aaron Clayton and Justin Tenorio

My partner and I had the honor of interviewing Dr. Benikia Kressler. Our interview was about an article she published titled “Learning Our Way through” Critical Professional Development for Social Justice in Teacher Education. During our interview, we not only got to see her results from the study she did involving faculty members. But also, how as an educator in one of the largest universities in the country, she noticed we teach in a culturally, experientially, and ideologically diverse context. And like her colleagues nationwide, they bear witness to the tensions and traumas associated with the current U.S. political climate.

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