EDUCATION

Ph.D., Education (Educational Psychology & Comparative Education)
Ohio University, 1991.  Dissertation: Children of migrant fathers: The effects of father- absence on Swazi children’s preparedness for school.

M.A., International Studies (African Studies Cognate)
Ohio University, Athens, OH, 1987.

B.A., English, Secondary Education Certificate
Miami University, Oxford OH, 1982.

COURSES TAUGHT

• EDFI 3030: Educational Psychology Applied to Adolescent Development

• EDFI 6730: Adolescent Development within Social Contexts

• EDFI 6750: Cross-Cultural Human Development and Learning

• EDFI 6420:  Research in Education

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Adolescent development within various educational cultural contexts

• Development of early adolescent identity

• African youth development within socio-cultural contexts

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Scholarly Book:

• Booth, M.Z. (2004). Culture and Education: The Social Consequences of Western Schooling in Contemporary Swaziland.  University Press of America.

Refereed Articles:

• Nieto, C. & Booth, M.Z. (forthcoming 2009). Cultural Competence: Its influence on the teaching and learning of international students. Journal of Studies in International Education.

• Booth, M.Z. & Sheehan, H. (2008). Perceptions of people and place: Young adolescents' interpretation of their schools in the US and UK. Journal of Adolescent Research. 23 (6), 722-744.

• Booth, M.Z., Sheehan, H., and M. Earley (2007). Middle grades school models and their impact on early adolescent self-esteem. Middle Grades Research Journal. 2, (1), 73-97.

• Booth, M.Z. (2006) “Neither a borrower, nor a lender be:” Educational reform through transnational borrowing and lending. Comparative Education Review, 50, 2 (278-287).

• Booth, M.Z. (2006) Swaziland Adolescents. In International Encyclopedia of Adolescence, J. J. Arnett, Ed.  Routledge. (934-946).

• Booth, M.Z. (2003). ‘You learn, and learn, and learn....and then you are an adult:' Parental perceptions of adolescence in contemporary Swaziland. Adolescence, 38: 221-238.

• Booth, M.Z. and Booth, G. M. (2003).  What Americans can learn from Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry. Phi Delta Kappan, 85, (4), 310-315.

• Booth, M.Z.  (2003). Settler, missionary, and the state: Contradictions in the formulation of educational policy in colonial Swaziland.  History of Education, 32 (1): 35-56.

• Booth, M.Z. (2003). The impact of parental availability on Swazi students' school achievement:  A nine-year longitudinal study. International Journal of Educational Development, 23: 257-274.

• Booth, M.Z. and J. Matuga, (2003). Swazi children's families as reflected in their drawings: The impact of the home environment. African Symposium, 3 (2)         

• Booth, M.Z. (2002). Swazi concepts of intelligence: The universal vs. the local. Ethos, 30 (4): 376-400.

• Booth, M.Z.  (2002). Education for liberation or domestication? Female education in colonial Swaziland. in T.M. Hunt and M.R. Lessard (Eds) Women and the Colonial Gaze.  Hampshire: Palgrave Press

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

• Manuscript reviewer for: Journal of Adolescent Research; Middle Grades Research Journal; Comparative Education Review; African Studies Review.

GRANTS

• PI: Research Development Counsel Grant,: Improving Academic Achievement and Social Opportunity for Adolescents from Low SES, Multi-Cultural Rural Communities (2009-2010, $12,500)

• Spencer Foundation Research Award: A Study of the Historical Development of Western Schooling in Swaziland. $28,233.  (Completed June 1, 2001)

• Spencer Foundation Research Award:  The Home Environment and School Achievement: A Longitudinal Study of Primary School Children in Swaziland.  $23,000. (Completed June 1, 1999)

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Improving Academic Achievement and Social Opportunity for Adolescents from Low SES, Multi-Cultural Rural Communities: Collaborative research project with Fostoria, Ohio schools.