Mona Thornton
| TITLE: | Associate Dean of the School of Education and Professor of Education |
| DEPARTMENT: | School of Education |
| LOCATION: | Newby Education Ctr. 114, 1815, Central, SC 29630, US |
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| OFFICE: | 864-644-5353 |
| PROFILE: | Dr. Mona Thornton has worked in higher education for 37 years, including 15 years as a department chair and six years as a director of teacher education. In addition to founding a child development laboratory school at one university and serving as the director for 26 years, Thornton worked at three other university laboratory schools and directed an early development program for a university hospital. Thornton received a gubernatorial appointment to the Virginia Council on Child Day Care and Early Childhood Programs and served for six years; was a Fulbright-Hayes Scholar in Zimbabwe; served as a Consulting Editor for "Young Children," the professional journal for the National Association for the Education of Young Children(NAEYC) and is currently a peer reviewer for the NAEYC/CAEP SPA (specialty professional association) process.
Education- Doctor of Education – Early Childhood Education -
Areas of Specialty/Interest- Early Childhood Education
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