Her work focuses on reflective practice, the philosophy of John Dewey, presence in teaching, and the theory and practice of a humanizing pedagogy. Her publications include “Presence in Teaching” in Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice (2006), with Miriam Raider-Roth; “Defining Reflection,” in Teachers College Record (2002); and “A Humanizing Pedagogy: Getting Beneath the Rhetoric,” in Perspectives in Education (2012), a South African journal.