Comparative Education Faculty
Faculty Yoshiko Nozaki joined the Comparative and Global Studies faculty in January 2002. Her background is in comparative/international education, educational anthropology, cultural studies and curriculum theory and history. Her research and teaching interests are in the comparative and international studies of gender and women’s education, nationalism and curriculum/textbook controversies, educational reform, peace education, and education and politics in Asian countries. In her dissertation, she examined the Japanese history textbook controversies in the period since 1945, and she is currently working on a book project on the subject. Her recent articles have appeared in Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Urban Education, Education about Asia, and Critical Asian Studies. She was a social studies teacher in Japan from 1979 to 1989, and has had experience visiting South Korean schools and teaching in public schools in the United States and Australia. She was lecturer at Massey University in New Zealand in 2001-02, and in the fall of 2001 conducted research at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, Japan. Nozaki teaches the core Comparative and Global Studies courses, Comparative and Global Studies in Education and Structure and Reform in Education, and the elective courses, Women in Comparative Perspective and Education in Asia. Associated Faculty Vladimir Ageyev is Associate Director of Urban Education Institute at GSE and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Learning and Instruction, specializing in socio-cultural psychology, intercultural communication, and multicultural education. He graduated from, and worked for 20 years at, Moscow State University in Russia. His research focuses on the causes and consequences of ethnocentrism, stereotypes, prejudices, and other biases in cross cultural perception and communication. The courses he teaches at ELP and LAI are aimed at raising cultural awareness of the students, increasing their intercultural competence, and providing them with practical skills in dealing successfully with cultural diversity in their classrooms, schools and communities. He teaches a comparative and Global Studies course, Culture and the Schools. Catherine Cornbleth is a Professor in the Department of Learning and Instruction, specializing in the politics, policies, and practices of curricula, including international comparative curricular studies; in social studies curriculum; and in individual, group and national social identities. Cornbleth teaches a comparative and Global Studies course, Comparative Curriculum Studies. Stephen Dunnett is Professor of Learning and Instruction, Director of the English Language Institute, and Vice Provost for International Education. In his professorial capacity, he specializes in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. In his administrative capacity, he is the chief university officer responsible for all international programs and activities. He has established overseas centers in many countries, including Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Latvia, Malaysia, and Taiwan, and has been a Fulbright researcher in Japan and a visiting professor in Singapore. He teaches a Comparative and Global Studies course, The Postsecondary Student in Comparative Perspective. Corrie Giles is an Assistant Professor in Educational Leadership and Policy from Canada, specializing in restructuring, site-based management, charter schools, school choice, educational planning and school improvement, and organizational learning. Giles has extensive experience as an administrator in schools in England, and has been a Professor in English and Canadian Universities. He is an experienced international consultant in educational administration, and has worked in the UK, Canada, Israel and Slovenia. He recently established the National Centre for School Leadership in Slovenia, and over the next year will be developing a “turn key” leadership development program in Estonia for the Canadian International Development Agency. Several of his courses, including Organizational Learning and Restructuring and From Decentralization to Devolution, deal with international comparative themes. Stephen Jacobson, Associate Dean and Professor of Educational Administration, past Chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy. His research has focused on the reform of school leadership preparation and practice, school finance and personnel administration. His work on leadership and school transformation has received international recognition and he has been invited to present his research in such places as Barbados, Canada, China, Cyprus, Ethiopia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Mali, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. He has taught American Education for International Students. Robert Stevenson is Associate Professor and past Chairman of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy. He specializes in action research, teacher professional development, school reform, and environmental education, and teaches a Comparative and Global Studies core course in Education and Globalization. He has recently co-edited a book of international case studies on education and sustainable development being published by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Stevenson directs UB's USAID funded capacity building project with Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia and UB's summer study abroad program in environmental studies in Australia. He has presented papers in Australia, Botswana, Canada, Ethiopia, Mexico, Portugal, South Africa and Sweden. |