William T. Pink, Ph.D.William T. Pink, Ph.D.

Title Professor
Dept Educational Policy and Leadership
Office 113J Schroeder Complex
Phone 414-288-1421
Email william.pink@marquette.edu

Degrees Held

  • Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1972

Research Interests

  • How teachers/administrators think about learning, curriculum and pedagogy
  • Positioning teachers as critical change agents for their own practice, the thinking of their students, and the reform of the school as a social organization.
  • A focus on understanding professional development, school change models and the development of effective instruction in urban schools

Courses Taught

  • Foundations of Curriculum
  • Instructional Theory and Research
  • Interpretive and Critical Research in Education
  • Multiple Paradigms in Educational Research
  • Sociological Foundations of Education
  • Canons and Conversations

Professional Activities

  • Editor, The Urban Review (1978 to date)
  • Editor, Educational Foundations (1992 to date)
  • Editor, book series entitled Understanding Education and Policy, Hampton Press (1992 to date)

Professional Affiliations

  • American Educational Research Association
  • American Educational Studies Association

Key Publications

2008

International Handbook of Urban Education (Springer International Handbooks of Education). William T. Pink and George W. Noblit (Eds.) New York: Springer, 2008.

2004

Cultural Matters: Lessons Learned from Field Studies of Several Leading School Reform Strategies. William T. Pink and George W. Noblit (Eds.) Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press (2004).

1999

"Critical Dialogue and the Transformation of Schools and Schooling: Urban and Suburban Sister Schools" in Fred Yeo and Barry Kanpol (Eds.) From Nihilism to Possibility: Democratic Transformations for Inner City Education, Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1999, pp. 99-112.

1995

Continuity and Contradiction: The Futures of the Sociology of Education. William T. Pink and George W. Noblit (Eds.). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1995.

1994

"Community Involvement and Staff Development in School Improvement." In Kathryn Borman (Ed). Changing Schools: Recaptruing the Past or Inventing the Future. New York: SUNY Press, (1994) pp. 195-219.

1992

Effective Staff Development for School Change. William T. Pink and Arthur Hyde (Eds.). Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishers (1992).

"The Politics of Reforming Schools," Education and Urban Society, Vol. 25, No. 1 (1992) pp. 96-113.

1990

"Implementing Curriculum Reform: Theoretical and Practical Implications." In J.S. Sears and J.D. Marshall (Eds.). Teaching and Thinking about Curriculum. New York: Teachers College Press, 1990, pp. 138-153.

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