nominations for vice president and members of the executive council
Vice President
John Covaleskie
Lynda Stone
John Covaleskie. My research has been on various dimensions of democratic education. In particular, I have focused on the nature of democratic character and the democratic virtues and how they are acquired. I have published on the meaning of discipline, the nature of democratic citizenship, the role of shame in moral formation, and the public role of religious and political speech as institutions of public education. I am particularly interested right now in the ways that non-school institutions (religion, news media, political speech, entertainment media, for example) do a great deal of educating, and I am interested in looking at the ways that they are educational and mis-educational, and ways they might do more of the former and less of the latter.
My teaching has until recently been mostly in the area of undergraduate foundations at Northern Michigan University. I currently teach philosophy and sociology of education at the University of Oklahoma, where I also continue to supervise, develop, and teach the undergraduate course in foundations. Prior to earning my PhD in Philosophy of Education from Syracuse University in 1993, I had taught middle and high school social studies and English, elementary, and kindergarten. I also served as a curriculum development specialist and an elementary principal.
I have been a member of AESA since my doctoral program at Syracuse, thanks to the mentoring of Emily Robertson and Tom Green. In addition to attending annual conferences for two decades (hard for me to believe that!), I have served AESA as the site selection coordinator, a member of the Executive Council, both CASA and CSFE, the Butts Lecture Committee, the Critics’ Choice Committee, and I have served as a reviewer for annual conferences.
I would bring to the office of Vice President an ability to work well with others and to meet responsibilities and deadlines. Professionally, I have worked as a building principal and a curriculum development consultant, both positions requiring strong organizational abilities. Within AESA, that ability was perhaps most obviously exhibited when I served as the site selection coordinator, a position that required me to scout out different possible locations for the annual meeting, negotiate contracts with the conference hotels being considered, coordinate with the Executive Council as they made their decision where to have the conference, and then make any necessary modifications to the contracts.
AESA has been important to me as a scholar and as a teacher. I am grateful to all those who have made the organization the valuable professional development experience it has been for me. I would be pleased to be able to contribute to the furtherance of this mission.
Lynda Stone. This nomination is a wonderful surprise! With about five years left of fulltime faculty work, and just when I was beginning to consider winding down, I have this possible opportunity. What an honor it would be to spend much of this time serving AESA.
Today I am Professor, Philosophy of Education, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; I have been on faculty for seventeen years. Here is a brief background: After an undergraduate career at UC Berkeley and fifteen years of public school teaching, I completed two masters degrees and a doctorate at Stanford. I am currently completing my term as President of the John Dewey Society, have been active in AERA on several committees (the recent Task Force on Humanities-oriented Research and the Book Award Committee, and in Division B, including election as Honorary Secretary) and several SIGs. I am a long time member of the Philosophy of Education Society and the International Network of Philosophers of Education. For some years I served on various committees of AESA and was nominated but not elected to the Executive Board twenty-years ago. In 2003, I was honored to deliver the Kneller lecture. I belong presently to a select international research group of philosophers and historians that meets yearly in Leuven, Belgium. Relative to the duties of AESA Vice-president, I am very experienced in putting together national and international programs.
I call myself a social philosopher—and tell people on airplanes that I am a “school critic.” I have published nearly 100 articles, chapters, reviews and edited projects. My scholarship is best described today as blending elements of the humanities into philosophy of education. Often my papers entail intellectual history; often they employ literary concepts and devices as philosophy. In almost every piece, I seek to learn something new and, as well, often to experiment with content and form. Among recent articles and chapters are the following: a critique of Dewey’s written connections between democracy and schools, a proposal for a rhetorical “turn” in educational research, and a “different” synthesis of philosophy of education for a new foundations handbook. Projects on my table include an encounter between Foucault and Kuhn and their distinctions, a consideration of Freud’s attraction in American culture and the academy, and a continuing project on today’s relationships between adult and youth ethics and problems of a missing moral language.
I want to say something here about AESA. Across its history there has been and remains an open ethos; to my mind everyone and all forms of scholarship are welcome. This remains rare I think. What has emerged is a very diverse organization with a common mission to improve education for all. Younger scholars are especially supported who learn through example and practice to do very reputable work. The organization has much of which to be proud and again I would be honored to serve.
Executive Council
Darrell Cleveland
Claudia Eppert
Gretchen Givens Generett
Hilton Kelly
Kurt Stemhagen
Luis Urrieta, Jr.
Darrell Cleveland. Dr. Darrell Cleveland presently serves as an assistant professor in the School of Education at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. A graduate of Temple University (BA, 1997), St. Josephs University (M.S.E.D., 1999) and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Ph.D., 2002), Dr. Cleveland has presented extensively on Diversity and Social Justice issues, specifically from a privileged perspective. Dr. Cleveland is author of the edited volume, A Long Way to Go: Conversations About Race by African American Faculty and Graduate Students, When Minorities are Strongly Encouraged to Apply: Diversity and Affirmative Action in Higher Education, and his forthcoming book, Teaching Race, Diversity and Social Justice in White Space. Dr. Cleveland also serves as editor of the Journal of Educational Foundations. He indicates, “As editor of the Journal of Educational Foundations I have the privilege of promoting the social foundations of education to a broad audience and as an executive board member I will continue to advance the future direction of AESA and the social foundations of education.”
Claudia Eppert. Claudia Eppert has been associate professor at the University of Alberta for three years, after eight years at Louisiana State University. Her research examines the educational complexities of witnessing social suffering/trauma through the arts and the challenges of social and environmental healing, compassion, and wisdom in global times. She is co-editor, with Roger I. Simon and Sharon Rosenberg, of Between Hope and Despair: Pedagogy and the Remembrance of Historical Trauma and co-editor, with Hongyu Wang, of Eastern Thought, Educational Insights: Cross-Cultural Studies in Curriculum. Both editions received the AESA Critics Choice Book Award, and Eastern Thought, Educational Insights was recently selected for Outstanding Book Recognition by the American Educational Research Association’s Curriculum Division. She currently serves on the editorial board for JCT: Journal of Curriculum Theorizing and on the Board of Reviewers for Paideusis: Journal of the Canadian Philosophy of Education Society. Eppert would like to see AESA maintain its cross-disciplinary commitments and strengthen community and inter-cultural educational initiatives to debate and address social and environmental challenges.
Gretchen Givens Generett. Gretchen Givens Generett has spent the last decade in academia researching and teaching on issues of teacher professional development, educational leadership, and identity. Currently, she is an associate professor in the Foundations and Educational Leadership Department at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA. A qualitative researcher, Dr. Generett’s teaching and research are designed to enhance the skills and habits of mind necessary for educators to effectively teach students from diverse populations. She has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes in the field of education. She is the co-editor of the book Black Women in the Field: Experiences Understanding Ourselves and Others through Qualitative Research and has been guest editor for Educational Foundations and Educational Studies. A member of AESA since 1994, Dr. Generett has served on the editorial advisory board for Educational Studies, chaired the Butts Lecturer Committee, reviewed for the AESA book award, and was on the 2009 AESA Pittsburgh hospitality committee. Dr. Generett earned her doctorate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Hilton Kelly. Hilton Kelly is an assistant professor of Education at Davidson College and has been a dedicated member of AESA since he was a graduate student. Currently, he is the AESA Graduate Student Coordinator and a member of the 2010 Program Committee. He served on the 2002 Critics Choice Committee and twice on the Nominating Committee. His Ph.D. in Sociology and M.S. in Labor Studies are from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. A sociologist of education with research interests in African-American education, social memory studies, teacher’s lives and work, and qualitative and historical methodologies, Kelly recently published his first book, Race, Remembering and Jim Crow’s Teachers. He has published articles in Educational Studies, Urban Education, The Urban Review, and The American Sociologist. If elected, Kelly intends to continue promoting the participation and voice of graduate students within AESA. He believes the future of AESA demands that we step out into the danger waters as educational leaders with research-based and social justice-minded solutions that can make a difference in the lives of students, teachers, and communities.
Kurt Stemhagen. Kurt Stemhagen is an associate professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. His scholarly work has a fairly wide range, from ethics to epistemology to philosophy of research to curriculum and instruction, particularly mathematics education. One unifying theme is that he uses his training in philosophy of education in an effort to help increase equity, opportunity and social justice. His work has been published in Educational Studies, Education and Culture, Journal of Curriculum Studies, Philosophy of Education Yearbook and Theory and Practice in Education, to name several. For AESA, he has twice served on the program committee as well as the Butts Lecture Committee. He has given numerous papers and participated in several panel/alternative sessions. He organized the music for last year’s AESA “celebrity jam” at the art gallery in Pittsburgh. He indicates that he is honored to have been nominated for the AESA executive board and if elected, looks forward to serving. He sees AESA as a very important organization, as it provides a rare space for scholars of different academic and cultural backgrounds to interact.
Luis Urrieta, Jr. Luis Urrieta, Jr. is an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He first joined AESA in 1999, and it has since been his intellectual home. His interdisciplinary research, geared toward furthering critical and interpretive discussions on education, is focused on Chican@ and indigenous identities, learning, and activism. Urrieta is author of "Working from Within: Chicana and Chicano Activist Educators in Whitestream Schools," winner of a 2009 AESA Critic's Choice Book Award. He served AESA on the Educational Foundations editorial board, on the annual conference program committee several years, and on the Critic’s Choice book award committee. As a member of the AESA Executive Council, Dr. Urrieta would like to further promote the organization and its commitment to critical perspectives and equity in education, especially concerning issues of race, gender, sexual orientation, and class. He believes that AESA should and must remain a safe space to further critical thinking about educational issues as well as to develop pedagogical strategies for critically teaching the foundations of education.
AESA 2010 Nominations Committee
Michael Gunzenhauser, University of Pittsburgh, Chair
Pam Bettis, Washington State University
Sue Ellen Henry, Bucknell University
Susan Laird, University of Oklahoma
Ken Saltman, DePaul University
