Staff Profile | Department of Psychology

About
Education
Research

Current Courses

IDS 398.002 Professional Practice: For Interdisciplinary Studies Major or Minor

PSY 138.001 Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

PSY 138.002 Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

PSY 138.003 Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

PSY 138.004 Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

PSY 138.005 Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

PSY 138.011 Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

PSY 138.012 Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

PSY 290.006 Special Projects: Research Apprenticeship

PSY 599.006 Doctoral Research In Psychology

PSY 499.006 Independent Research For The Master's Thesis

PSY 331.001 Laboratory In Research Methods For Psychology: Developmental

PSY 415.001 Laboratory In Research Methods For Psychology: Developmental

PSY 498.009 Professional Practice In Developmental Psychology

IDS 398.002 Professional Practice: For Interdisciplinary Studies Major or Minor

PSY 428.001 Professional Seminar In Developmental Psychology

PSY 138.001 Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

PSY 138.002 Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

PSY 138.003 Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

PSY 138.004 Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

PSY 138.005 Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

PSY 290.006 Special Projects: Research Apprenticeship

Teaching Interests & Areas

I teach a variety of courses with developmental research methods, Black psychology, and educational psychology being my usual courses. In all of my classes, I focus on cultural contexts and on how psychology can be applied professionally and personally.

Research Interests & Areas

I am interested in how communities support children's learning of various skills including how to read, play and draw pictures. More specifically, I have studied children's development in the context of museums, schools and homes. Also, I am interested in parents' beliefs about how children develop. This work is informed by various sociocultural theories of human functioning.

Ph D

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Champaign, Illinois

MA

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Champaign, Illinois

BA

Earlham College

Richmond, Indiana

Book Review

Berk, L., Braswell, G., Meyers, A., Rivadeneyra, R., & Schmeeckle, M. Bringing the World’s Children Into Focus: Cultivating Well-Being on a Global Scale. PsyCritiques 60.28 (2015): 7.

Journal Article

Braswell, G. S. (2021). An introduction to the Video Activity Coder: Free software for coding videorecorded behaviors. Behavior Research Methods, 53(6), 2596-2603. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01608-3

Braswell, G. S. (2021). Toward a process-centered account of literate activity in the classroom. Journal of Childhood Studies, 46(4), 17-31. https://doi.org/10.18357/jcs464202120226

Braswell, G. S. (2021, online). Changes in ancient Egyptian mathematical artifacts from a cultural-historical activity theory perspective. Culture and Psychology.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1354067X211032872

Braswell, G. S. (2017). Preschool children’s participation in representational and non-representational activities. Journal of Early Childhood Research, 15, 195-211.

Braswell, G. S. (2016). Creation and validation of an observational tool to assess children's domain-general skills at museum exhibits. Visitor Studies, 19, 211-224.

Presentations

Family Engagement in a Children's Museum Exhibit: Variability in the Context of Exhibit Tools. Society for Research in Child Development. (2025)

Braswell, G. S. (November 13, 2020). Worldviews, connections to nature and beliefs about knowledge acquisition among university students of African descent. Presented at African American Studies Fall Lectures series (Illinois State University, Normal, IL).

Why should we be empathetic? Why should we be friends?. Extending Empathy Project. Department of Psychology, ISU. (2019)

Braswell, G. S. (June, 2016). Going with the flow: The impact of a water-based exhibit on visito behavior at a hands-on museum. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Chicago, IL.

Han, S., Braswell, G, DeSouza, E. R., & Rivadeneyra, G. (2016, October). Critical Reflection on Teaching and Addressing Diversity in the Classroom: Philosophy, Pedagogy, and More. 2016 Culturally Responsive Campus Community Conference: Uniting to Challenge Systems of Oppression. Illinois State University, Normal, Il.

Location, location, location: Situating Children's Development in Context. Children's Studies Brownbag. (2014)

Children’s engagement in representational and non-representational activities in a Head Start classroom.. Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society. Jean Piaget Society. (2013)

Grants & Contracts

Worldviews, Connections to Nature and Beliefs about Knowledge Acquisition among University Students of African Descent. African American Studies Minor. Illinois State University. (2020)

Interdisciplinary Initiative. ISU College of Arts and Sciences. Illinois State University. (2019)

Gregory Braswell