Cultural Foundations of Education
Faculty
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Sari Knopp Biklen
Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence and Department Chair
315-443-9075
skbiklen@syr.edu
Ed.D, University of Massachusetts, 1973
Sari Knopp Biklen, Laura and Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence and professor of cultural foundations of education, is a specialist in popular culture, qualitative research methods, and youth culture. She directs the Institute on Popular Culture and Education at Syracuse University. As a University Scholar for the American Association of University Women, Biklen researched the culture of university life for college women investigating how college women talk about race, and how their consumer practices impact their educational careers. In 1996 she won Syracuse University's Outstanding Teacher Award. In 1999 she was Rio Tinto-LaTrobe University Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Melbourne, Australia. Her books include The Practical Guide to the Qualitative Dissertation (with Ronnie Casella, Teachers College Press, forthcoming, 2007), Qualitative Research for Education (with Robert Bogdan; Allyn & Bacon, fifth edition, 2006), School Work: Gender and the Cultural Construction of Teaching (Teachers College Press, 1995), Gender and Education (with Diane Pollard, National Society for the Study of Education Yearbook, 1993), Women as Radicals and Conservators (with Joyce Antler) and Women and Educational Leadership (with Marilyn Brannigan). Her articles have appeared in numerous journals including Teachers College Record, Qualitative Inquiry, Phi Delta Kappan, and History of Education. She serves on the editorial board of Critical Inquiry in Language Studies.
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Kal Alston
Professor, Associate Provost for Academic Affairs
315-443-5525
kalston@syr.edu
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1989
Kal Alston, professor of cultural foundations of education, is trained in philosophy of education. She spent her earlier career at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in educational policy studies and as director of the Gender & Women's Studies Program. Alston's scholarly interests center on intersections of popular culture/media with American experiences of race, class, and gender. She is currently working on analyses of contemporary girlhood, early adolescent culture and education, and race and fatherhood, as well as the development of women's leadership in academia and in other social contexts. Her most recent publications have focused on ethics and community responsibility, the phenomenal experience of race in philosophical practice, and the connection of the Brown decision to contemporary educational experience.
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Barbara Applebaum
Associate Professor
Inclusive Elementary & Special Education
315-443-3702
bappleba@syr.edu
Ph.D. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 1994
Barbara Applebaum, associate professor of cultural foundations of education, is trained in philosophy of education. Applebaum's scholarly interests are currently focused on the point where ethics, education, and commitments to diversity converge. Her research is heavily informed by feminist ethics, feminist philosophy, and critical race theory. Applebaum's published papers have appeared in such journals as Educational Theory, Philosophy of Education, Educational Foundations, and the Journal of Moral Education. Applebaum is currently examining the theories of self and agency that are necessary to ground and sustain educational initiatives committed to social justice. Applebaum has a special interest in teachers' self-reflections on their own teaching process and has written articles on caring, building trust in the classroom, and what teacher authority can mean for a feminist pedagogue.
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Douglas Biklen
Dean, Professor
Inclusive Elementary & Special Education
315-443-4751
dpbiklen@syr.edu
Ph.D. Syracuse University, 1973
Professor, Cultural Foundations of Education, Disability Studies, Teaching and Leadership Programs; Senior Faculty, Center on Disability Studies, Law and Human Policy
Dean Biklen specializes in school inclusion, autism, deinstitutionalization, disability studies, facilitated communication, mental retardation, the representation of disability in popular culture, social policy, and the sociology of disability. He is on the executive board of the Autism National Committee. He co-produced the 2004 Academy Award nominated, CNN/State of the Art Inc. documentary film Autism is a World. His most recent book, Autism and the Myth of the Person Alone (2005) is published by NYU Press. Biklen introduced the technique of facilitated communication to the United States from Australia in 1989 and is author of Contested Words, Contested Science: Unraveling the Facilitated Communication Controversy (Teachers College Press, 1997) and Communication Unbound: How Facilitated Communication is Challenging Traditional Values of Autism and Ability/Disability (Teachers College Press, 1993). His work has been featured on ABC's PrimeTime Live and the CBS Evening News, as well as the New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, and U.S. News and World Report.
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Gretchen Lopez
Assistant Professor
315-443-8344
gelopez@syr.edu
Ph.D. University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Gretchen Lopez is involved in research on race, gender, and multicultural education in higher education. She is interested in the intersection of theory, research, and practice as it informs understandings of diversity, inequality, and processes for creating change through education. She currently directs the intergroup dialogue research project at
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Elizabeth Payne
Instructor
315-443--3343
ecpayne@syr.edu
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Emily Robertson
Associate Professor
315-443-9074
eroberts@syr.edu
Ph.D. Syracuse University, 1981
Professor Robertson specializes in philosophy of education, ethics and social philosophy, and philosophy of social science. Her primary research interests include analysis of educational aims in relationship to moral, political, and social ideals and to theories of knowledge, particularly the development of capacities for critical reflection and for moral perception and judgement.
Her articles have appeared in the "Proceedings of the Philosophy of Education Society", "Review of Research in Education", "Journal of Higher Education" and the "American Journal of Education". Robertson is past president of the Philosophy of Education Society and is on the editorial board of Studies in Philosophy and Education. She was a consultant on projects for the Ford Foundation, the National Institute of Education, and the Educational Testing Service. She holds a dual appointment with the Syracuse University philosophy department.
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Dalia Rodriguez
Assistant Professor
Inclusive Elementary & Special Education
315-443-9656
darodrig@syr.edu
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005
Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2005. Dalia Rodriguez, assistant professor of Cultural Foundations of Education, is a specialist in the area of sociology of education and qualitative research methods. Currently, her research interests focus on issues of access to education, racial inequality, and multicultural education. Her scholarly work is interdisciplinary, drawing from the areas of sociology, race-based theory, and policy studies. Committed to diversity and educational reform, Rodriguez has collaboratively developed college recruitment programs for students, notably from the Chicago area as well as Puerto Rico. Most recently, she worked for the State Senate of New Mexico, where she advocated for the Albuquerque Public Schools by conducting research on effective ways of dealing with No Child Left Behind legislation.
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Kenneth A. Strike
Professor
315-443-9076
kastrike@syr.edu
Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1968
Kenneth A. Strike is Professor Emeritus at Cornell University and is former Chair of the Department of Education Policy Studies at the University of Maryland. He has a B.A. from Wheaton College and an M.A. and Ph. D. from Northwestern University. He has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Alberta, is past president of the Philosophy of Education Society and was elected to the National Academy of Education in 1993. He was a member of the National Research Council, Committee on School Finance, Equity, Adequacy, and Productivity from 1996 - 1999. His principal interests are professional ethics and political philosophy as they apply to matters of educational practice and policy.
He is the author of a number of books and well over a hundred articles. Professor Strike gave the 1999 Kohlberg Memorial Lecture at the annual meetings of the Association for Moral Education. He has written on a variety of other topics including school reform, desegregation, affirmative action, and religious liberty in education. His current work concerns the exploration of the normative aspects of school reform emphasizing the notion of schools as communities. He is the recipient of a grant from the Spencer Foundation for this work.
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Steven Taylor
Professor; Director, Center on Human Policy
Center on Human Policy
315-443-4484
staylo01@syr.edu
Ph.D. Syracuse University, 1977
Steven Taylor is professor of cultural foundations of education, centennial professor of disability studies, and co-director of SU's Center on Disability Studies, Law, and Human Policy. Taylor is the author of numerous books and articles is knowledgeable about deinstitutionalization, community inclusion, disability policy, disability studies, and qualitative research methods. He was the recipient of the 1997 Research Award of the American Association on Mental Retardation, the 2003 Syracuse University Chancellor?s Citation for Exceptional Academic Achievement, and the 2008 Senior Scholar Award of the Society for Disability Studies.
Emeriti
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Robert Bogdan
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
315-443-7612
rcbogdan@syr.edu
Ph.D. Syracuse University, 1971
Robert Bogdan is well known for his work in qualitative research methods and has written numerous articles and books on subjects related to methodology. His books, Introduction to Qualitative Research (3rd edition 1998 with S. Taylor) and Qualitative Research for Education (3rd Edition 1998 with S. Biklen) are widely used graduate texts. Bogdan's research is wide-ranging and includes research on life histories of former residents of institutions for mentally retarded people, school inclusion, communication in neonatal wards, the wilderness, and visual depictions of disability in popular culture. He has published extensively on a large variety of topics and often gives workshops and lectures on qualitative research and disability studies here and abroad. His book Freak Show, a social history of the practice of exhibiting people for amusement and profit, was heralded as an important contribution to the relatively new field of disability studies. His book, Exposing the Wilderness (1999), looks at early 20th century Adirondack photographers and their depictions of the wilderness. Bogdan is active in a number of professional organizations and on the editorial boards of numerous journals.
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John Briggs
Professor Emeritus
315-443-7612
jbriggs@syr.edu
John Briggs, associate professor and chair of cultural foundations of education, is a specialist in the history of education, immigration, multi-cultural issues, rural education, and social studies education. He is currently completing a study of schooling and community in 20th-century rural America.
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Joan Burstyn
Professor Emeritus
315-443-7612
jburstyn@syr.edu
Ph.D. University of London, 1968
Professor Burstyn's scholarly interests range from gender, race, and class in the history of education to the influence of new information technologies, and to conflict resolution in educational settings. A noted educational historian and a past president of the History of Education Society, she is president of the American Educational Studies Association. She is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Teaching Division). Burstyn has held administrative positions at Carnegie Mellon University, Rutgers University, and Syracuse University where she is the former dean of the School of Education.
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Gerald Grant
Professor Emeritus, Hannah Hammond Professor of Education
315-443-7612
gpgrant@syr.edu
Ed.D. Harvard University, 1972
Formerly education editor and writer on the national staff of The Washington Post (1961-1967), and a Nieman Fellow (1967-68), a post-doctoral Research Fellow in the sociology department at Harvard University. Under grants from the Carnegie Foundation, he coordinated a five-year study of experimental colleges and reform movements published as The Perpetual Dream: Reform and Experiment in the American College (with David Riesman), which won the Borden Award of the American Council on Education. He also wrote On Competence, a critical study of competence-based educational reforms. Grant's The World We Created at Hamilton High, is a sociological history of an urban high school. Grant's book, Teaching in America: The Slow Revolution, with Christine Murray (1999) won the Virginia and Warren Stone Prize. He was a senior associate at the National Institute of Education, a Spencer Fellow of the National Academy of Education, and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.