 Education Background:
- PhD, Comparative Education - Loyola University
- MS, Counseling and Student Personnel - Mankato State
University
- BA, International Relations - Gustavus Adolphus
College
Teaching Philosophy:"Being a progressive means to deepen the
connection with the masses of people, means to respect the beliefs of the
people, means to consult the people, means to start from the letters and words
with which the people are starting the process of education. All these things
are like recognizing what levels of knowledge people have, in order to create a
new knowledge and to help people to know better what they already know."
Paulo Freire, We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on
Education and Social Change Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990,
226.
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Awards and highlights:
Exemplary Leader Award, Chair Academy, 2007
Elected to the Board of Directors
Comparative and International Education Society, March
2000-2003
Outstanding Domestic Student Award
Phi Beta Delta Honor
Society for International Scholars
Delta Psi Chapter, Loyola University -
Chicago, April 2001
Schmitt Dissertation Fellowship
Highly
competitive $10,000 award to support full-time writing
Loyola University -
Chicago, 1999-00
Selected Publications:
Language of the Land: Policy, Politics, Identity, Studies in the History of Education, Volume 2, David Witkosky, co-editor, Information Age Publishing, 2007.
"Swedish-Language Folk High Schools in Finland: Ethnonationalism, Language, and Adult Education in the Nineteenth Century," Language of the Land: Policy, Politics, Identy, Studies in the History of Education, Volume 2, Katherine Schuster & David Witkosky, eds, Information Age Publishing, 2007.
"The Culture of Folk Education in Finland for
Swedish-Speakers at the Turn of the Twentieth Century," 2002 Worldwide
Forum Proceedings, Rome, Italy.
"Comparative Connections: Educational History within a Global Context," Presidential Address, American Educational History Journal, 34 (2007).
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