This interview with Professor Dr. Alma Harris appears as the fifth installment in a year-long series on the public scholarship of women in education leadership. Dr. Harris is internationally known for her research and writing on leadership and school improvement. She started her career as a teacher in South Wales and has held senior academic appointments at five…
This interview with Dr. Karen Edge appears as the fourth installment in a yearlong series on the public scholarship of women in education leadership. Karen Edge is the Pro Vice Provost (International) at University College London (UCL) and Reader in Educational Leadership at the UCL Institute of Education in London, UK. Karen is an academic and advocate committed to…
This interview with Helen Janc Malone was originally posted on Esteem: Conversations Between Educators, where it appeared as the third installment in a yearlong series on the public scholarship of women in education leadership. Dr. Helen Janc Malone is the Director of Institutional Advancement and National Director of the Education Policy Fellowship Program at the Institute for Educational…
This interview with Gillian Hamilton appears as the second in a yearlong series on the public scholarship of women in education(al) leadership. Gillian Hamilton is Chief Executive of the newly formed Scottish College for Educational Leadership. She has worked in Scottish education for 24 years, and has held posts as a Primary Teacher, Senior Teacher,…
A yearlong interview series presented by Esteem: Conversations Between Educators This year, Esteem will publish a series of interviews that connect two compelling areas of interest. One is the AERA 2016 Conference theme of public scholarship for diverse democracies. The other is women’s leadership in education. Recently, these two areas have converged on Twitter as…
This interview with Andrea Stringer was originally published on Esteem, where it appeared as the first in a yearlong series on the public scholarship of women in education leadership. Andrea Stringer is a teacher in Sydney, Australia, who has just received the The Keith Tronc Award for the most outstanding teacher from the Australian Council for…
Originally posted on International Education News on February 19, 2015: Over the past decade or so, South Korea (as well as Taiwan and Japan) has experienced a wave of immigration that has resulted in an increasingly ethnic and racially diverse population. The issue has received considerable attention—from the media, as well as from politicians—as the country works to find…
Karen Hammerness is the Director of Educational Research and Evaluation at the American Museum of Natural History. Most recently, she has been studying teacher education programs that focus on preparing teachers for particular contexts, such as urban public schools, and exploring the advantages of such focused preparation for new teachers, and their students—work that is…
Originally posted on Esteem: Conversations Between Educators on June 4, 2014: Aaron Pallas is the Arthur I. Gates Professor of Sociology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He has also taught at Johns Hopkins University, Michigan State University, and Northwestern University, and served as a statistician at the National Center for Education Statistics in…
Deirdre Faughey, Ed. D. 