Department of Educational and Policy Leadership
Office: 116E Schroeder Complex
Phone: (414) 288-7380
jeffrey.labelle@marquette.edu
Rev. Jeffrey T. LaBelle, S.J., Ed.D.
Assistant Professor
Degrees Held
- Ed.D., University of San Francisco
- Th.M., Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
- M.Div., Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
- B.A., University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
Research Interests
- First and second language acquisition
- Immigrant issues in education
- Multicultural and bilingual education
- Hispanic languages and cultures
- Catholic social teaching
- Jesuit education and Ignatian spirituality
Courses Taught
- Introduction to Schooling in a Diverse Society
- Critical Inquiry into Contemporary Issues
- Philosophy of Education
Recent Publications/Presentations
2011
LaBelle, J., & Kendall, D. (2011). Catholic Colleges in the 21st Century: A Road Map for Campus Ministry. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press.
LaBelle, J. (2011). Selecting ELL textbooks: A content analysis of L2 teaching models. Bilingual Research Journal, 34(1), 94-110.
LaBelle, J., & Shaw, V. (April, 2011). Selecting Middle School English Language Learner (ELL) Textbooks: Issues of Ethnicity and Learning Strategies. Annual meeting of American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.
2010
LaBelle, J., & Shaw, V. (2010). Selecting ELL textbooks: A content analysis of ethnicity depicted in illustrations and writing. Journal of Multiculturalism in Education [online],
6(2).
LaBelle, J. (2010). Selecting ELL textbooks: A content analysis of L2 learning strategies. Journal of Language Teaching and Research [online], 1(4), 358-369.
O’Collins, G., Kendall, D., & LaBelle, J. (Eds.). (2010). Seek God everywhere: Reflections on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. New York: Doubleday.
2009
LaBelle, J., & Kendall, D. (2009). Being Catholic in a changing world. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press.
2008
LaBelle, J. (February, 2008). "No immigrant left behind: Education for inclusion." Paper presented for Mission Week 2008, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI.
2007
O’Collins, G., Kendall, D., & LaBelle, J. (Eds.). (2007). Pope John Paul II: A reader. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press.
LaBelle, J. (2007). Vietnamese American experiences of English language learning: Ethnic acceptance and prejudice. Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement [online], Vol. 2.
Gautier, C., & LaBelle, J. (November, 2007). "France and the USA: Different multicultural developments, different views of multicultural education." Annual meeting of National Association for Multicultural Education, Baltimore, MD.
2006
LaBelle, J. (2006, Fall). Looking beneath the surface of immigration. USF Magazine, 13(2), 29.
LaBelle, J. (2006). "Critical literacy: Freire’s problem-posing pedagogy through pictures." Presentation at the annual meeting of National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME), Phoenix, AZ.
2005
LaBelle, J. (2005). "Experiences of ethnic acceptance and prejudice in English language learning." Paper presented at the 2005 Commitment to Justice Conference, John Carroll University, University Heights, OH.
