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Education History
Barbara Finkelstein - professor, Department of Education Policy Studies, University of Maryland, and founding director,
International Center for Transcultural Education.
Expertise - a world-renowned historian of education and transcultural educator, Professor Finkelstein has done prize winning research on the social and transcultural impact of education policies and practices. Her work
seeks to integrate the experiences of childhood and youth into the history of education in the United States, document the evolution of teacher behavior in popular primary schools, explore civic purpose in education, and analyze the involvement of government in child-rearing. Prof. Finkelstein has used oral history as a way to center on minority group experiences with literacy and school reform in both Japan and the United States. Her work as Founding Director of the International Center for Transcultural Education, organized, participated, and engaged students in interdisciplinary research collaborations centering on the recovery of previously invisible historical voices, on reconstitution policies in the United States, immigrant education policies in Japan and the U.S., and cultural stereotyping in the Middle East, Japan, and the United States.
Credentials - Prof. Finkelsetin has written and lectured extensively about the role of teachers as cultural mediators, the uses of literacy among minority groups, the shape of diversity policies in various educational settings, and more recently on the historical roots of child abuse.
She has received numerous awards, including
Distinguished Scholar Teacher Award at Maryland for 2005-2006, and was the recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun from the Imperial House of Japan in 2005. She has been the recipient of UMCPs Woman of the Year Award, (1997-1998), the UMCP Distinguished International Service Award, (1994-1995), and has been nominated for four consecutive years as EDPL Mentor of the Year.
Contact - 301-405-3588(office); bf@umd.edu
Web Site - http://www.education.umd.edu/EDPS/facultyStaff/bfinkelstein.html
Dennis Herschbach - associate professor, Department of Education Policy Studies, University of Maryland
Expertise -
educational history, work and society, and international development. He works in both domestic and international arenas. His current international research revolves around issues of educational program quality and sustainability in developing countries. Questions of program planning, design and evaluation also are of interest. On the domestic side his current work includes understanding some of the historical dimensions of work preparation in the United States, particularly in relation to curricular issues. He tries to look at workforce preparation within the larger educational and social context. It is his strong belief that practice should inform scholarship.
Credentials -
Dr. Herschbach has worked in the field of human resource development for a number of international development organizations and agencies, and has completed assignments in Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Central America and the Caribbean. He was formerly the Deputy Director of the International Labor Organization's training center in Turin, Italy. Most recently, he has been involved in establishing a technical high school and community college in Albania.
Contact - 301-405-4542(office); drhersch@umd.edu
Web Site - http://www.education.umd.edu/EDPS/facultyStaff/dherschbach.html
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