Publications

Articles

Bonney, E. N., Campbell, A. A., Fusheini, A., & Adesina, K. A. (2025). Cultural Wealth as Pedagogy: Elders’ Knowledge and Community Engagement in Sustaining Linguistic and Cultural Heritage. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 1–21. Read more

Bonney, E. N., Campbell, A. A., Adesina, K. A., Okaijah, M., & Prempeh, F. A. (2025). “I knew I had issues with my maths, but I never thought it could be because of the language”: Student Success in Mathematics Using Home Languages and Educational Technology. International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 1-24. Read more

Bonney, E. N., Yurkofsky, M. M., & Capello, S. A. (2025). EdD Students’ Sensemaking of Improvement Science as a Tool for Change in Education. Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 20(1), 3-31 Read more

Bonney, E. N. & Shad, S. (2024). Erasure of history, colonialism, and its effects: A critical discourse analysis of the Ghanaian and Pakistani history curricula. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 1-28. Read more

Hinnant-Crawford, B., Bonney, E. N., Perry, J. A., Bozack, A. R., Peterson, D. S., Crow, R., & Carlile, S. (2024). Continuous Improvement, Institutional Review Boards, and Resistance to Practitioner Scholarship. Educational Researcher, 53(1), 46-53. Read more

Capello, S., Yurkofsky, M., & Bonney, E. N. (2023). Part Two of the Themed Issue on Reimagining Research Methods Coursework for the Preparation of Scholar-Practitioners. Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 8(4), 1-2. Read more

Capello, S., Yurkofsky, M., & Bonney, E. N. (2023). Part One of the Themed Issue on Reimagining Research Methods Coursework for the Preparation of Scholar-Practitioners. Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 8(2), 1-3. Read more

Schultz, L. M, Bonney, E. N., Dorner, L. M., & Song, K. H. (2023). From Attendance to Collaboration: Contextual Differences in Teacher Perceptions of Multilingual Family Engagement. Teachers College Record, 125 (1), 132-162. Read more

Bonney, E.N. (2023). Under/Mis-representation of Ghanaian Languages in the Literature Curriculum in Senior High Schools. Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 22(1), 66-82. Read more

Bonney, E. N. (2022). The colonial master left yet colonial approaches to leading schools persists: Discourses from Ghanaian leaders. International Journal of Leadership in Education Read more

Adkins, D., Moulaison Sandy, H., & Bonney, E. N. (2019). Creating personas on which to build services for Latinx users: A proof of concept. Public Library Quarterly, 38(1), 50-71. Read more
Dorner, L., Bonney, E., Trigos-Carrillo, L., Song, K. & Kim, S. (2018). Developing inclusive multilingual family literacy projects. MU Cambio Center. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri. Read more

Books

Bonney, E. N., Capello, S., & Yurkofsky, M., (2024). Improvement science in the field: Cases of practitioners leading change in schools. Rowman & Littlefield. Read more

Book Chapters

Capello, S., Yurkofsky, M. M., Bonney, E. N., & Burriss, T. L. (2025). What About Theory?: Incorporating Theory Into Leadership Preparation EdD Programs. In J. B. Watters, G. J. Miller, R. Rhone (Eds.). Reimagining the P-20 Landscape for School Leadership Learning. IGI Global.

Bonney, E. N., Capello, S., & Yurkofsky, M. (2024). Introduction: The practitioner voice in improvement. In Bonney, E. N., Capello, S., & Yurkofsky, M. (Eds.). Improvement science in the field: Cases of practitioners leading change in schools (pp. xiii – xvii). Rowman & Littlefield.

Bonney, E. N., Capello, S., & Yurkofsky, M. (2024). Editors’ commentary. In Bonney, E. N., Capello, S., & Yurkofsky, M. (Eds.). Improvement science in the field: Cases of practitioners leading change in schools (pp. 165-167). Rowman & Littlefield.

Capello, S. A., Bonney, E. N., & Yurkofsky, M. (2023). The Practitioner Inquiry Course Sequence: Centering Improvement Science in the Design of an EdD Program. In C. Benedetti & A. Covarrubias (Eds.), Teaching Critical Inquiry and Applied Research: Moving Beyond Traditional Methods. Myers Education Press

Capello, S. A., Bonney, E. N., & Yurkofsky, M. (2024). Dissertation in practice methodologies. In K. Everson, K. Torres, L. Hemmer, & S. Tamim (Eds.), The importance of the dissertation in practice (DiP): A resource guide for EdD students, their committee members and advisors, and departmental and university leaders involved with EdD programs.

Yurkofsky, M., Bonney, E. N., & Capello, S. (2023). Integrating Improvement Science Into Leadership Preparation Programs: Enduring Challenges and Promising Strategies. In E. Anderson & S. D. Hayes (Eds.), Continuous improvement: A leadership process for school improvement. IAP

Dorner, L. M., Kim, S., Bonney, E. N., & Montes, I. (2023). Using Critical Discourse Analysis to Challenge and Change Educational Discourses and Practices. In M. D. Young, & S. Diem (Eds.), Handbook of Critical Education Research (pp. 356-376). Routledge. Read more

Bonney, E. N., & Campbell, A. (2022). Dominant English-Centered Language Policies in Education Marginalize Ghanaian Languages and Literacies. In C.S. Sunal, O. M. Odebiyi, K. Mutua (Eds.), Effects of Government Mandates and Policies on Public Education in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. Research on Education in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East (Series). Information Age Publishing. Read more

Bonney, E. N., Bonney, V. N. A., & Sweeney, H. (2021). Schools Alone Cannot Educate Refugees, It Takes A Community. In D. Warriner (Ed.), Refugee education across the lifespan: Mapping Experiences of Language Learning and Use. Springer. Read more

Dorner, L. M., Moon, J., Bonney, E. N., & Otis, A. (2021). Dueling discourses in dual language schools: “All students can achieve” versus the “significant challenge” of educating Black students. In N. Flores, A. Tseng, & N. Subtirelu (Eds.), Bilingualism for All?: Raciolinguistic Perspectives on Dual Language Education. Multilingual Matters. Read more

Sweeney, H., & Bonney, E. N. (2020). A global American university: How Midwest University exports education to the periphery. In G. Malfatti (Ed.), People-centered approaches toward the internationalization of higher education. IGI Global. Read more

Bonney, E. N., Dorner, L. M., Trigos-Carrillo, L., Song, K., & Kim, S. (2020). Developing inclusive and multilingual family literacy events at diverse schools. In E. Crawford-Rossi & L. M. Dorner (Eds.), Educational Leadership of Immigrants: Case Studies in Times of Change. Routledge. Read more

Book Reviews, Ebriefs, Magazines, and Technical Reports

Andreoli, P. M., & Bonney, E. N. (2025). The Role of School Leaders in Fostering Collaborative and Equitable Family Partnerships. South Carolina Family and Community Engagement (FACE) Research and Practitioner Digest. The Serve Center at UNC Greensboro. Read more

Crawford, E. R. & Bonney, E. N. (2023). Leveraging community-based organizations to equitably serve refugee background students in the United States. REACH. Harvard GSE. Read more

Dorner, L, Harris, K. M., Crawford, E., Song, K. H., Bonney, E. N. (2021). It limits our ability to do everything: The family-school relationship. The Missouri Elementary Principal, 31(3), 18-20. Read more

Dorner, L., Bonney, E., Trigos-Carrillo, L., Song, K. & Kim, S. (2018). Developing inclusive multilingual family literacy projects. MU Cambio Center. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri. Read more

Dorner, L., Bonney, E., Trigos-Carrillo, L., Song, K. & Kim, S. (2018). Developing inclusive multilingual family literacy projects. MU Cambio Center. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri. Read more

Orellana, M. F. (2016). Immigrant children in transcultural spaces: Language, learning, and love. Routledge.
Reviewed by Trigos-Carrillo, L., Bonney, E. N., & Dorner, L. M. (2018). Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 14(2), 1-8.

Dissertation

Bonney, E. N. (2021). Deconstructing dominant English language discourses in the Ghanaian curriculum: reimagining a curriculum centered on Ghanaian languages and literacies. [Doctoral dissertation, University of Missouri-Columbia]. Read more