KATHRYN G. HERR
Montclair State University 100 Bleecker St. 12E
College of Education and Human Services NY, NY 10012
Finley Hall 111
1 Normal Avenue 212-388-1170
Montclair, NJ 07043
1-973-655-6845
EDUCATION______
1988 Ph.D. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
College of Social Work
Dissertation: An Ethnographic Study of Teenage Pregnancy in an Urban High School
1980 MSW Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service, NY, NY
Individual and Family Practice
1972 BS Millersville University, Millersville, PA
Teacher Certification: Secondary English
LICENSURE______
LISW Licensed Independent Social Worker, State of New Mexico
License # I-0902
Mediator Completed training as mediator, 2001
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY______
Associate Professor, Montclair State University, College of Education and Human Services (2004-present)
Associate professor in Human Ecology. Classes offered: Development of the school-aged child;
Introduction to research
Visiting, Assistant and Associate Professor, College of Education, University of New Mexico (1993-2004)
Visiting professor (1993-4); Assistant professor (1994-99); Associate Professor (1999-2004)
Faculty member in Educational Thought and Sociocultural Studies. Classes offered in educational foundations; research methods; teacher education, family studies and educational leadership. Graduate courses taught: Naturalistic Inquiry; Qualitative Research in Education; Narrative Research; Practitioner Research; Qualitative Dissertation Seminar; Youth and Gender; Schools and Communities; Cultural Studies in Education; Middle Level Philosophy and Curriculum; The Middle School. Undergraduate Courses taught: Growth and Development in Middle Childhood (The Elementary School Years); School Structures and Strategies for Early Adolescents; Adolescent Development in the Family.
Program Chair, Educational Thought and Socio-cultural Studies (2002-2004); Faculty Coordinator, Early Adolescent Teacher Education Cohort (2002-2003); Coordinator, Post Baccalaureate Teacher Education Program (1998-99); Co-coordinator, Middle Level Teacher Education Program (1995-97). Multiple college level and university committees. Chair and committee member for numerous doctoral dissertations.
Editor, Youth and Society, Sage Publications (1994-present, co-editor with Margaret LeCompte, 1992-94)
Responsible for the overall production of a quarterly, refereed, interdisciplinary, international journal
addressing theoretical and applied issues of youth and their cultural contexts.
Therapist in private practice (1993-2004).
Specializing in early adolescent/adolescent and family therapies. Licensed independent social worker.
Consultant, New Mexico Tribal Coalition (2001-2)
Guided Native American teacher/leaders from 19 tribal schools in conducting practitioner research; subcontract for National Science Foundation grant
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Smith College of Social Work, Northampton, MA (1995-97)
Research/thesis advisor for MSW students based in NM.
Adjunct Faculty, Family Studies, Counseling, Sociology, University of NM (1988-1992)
Courses taught include: Multicultural Issues of Children and Families; Group Counseling; Introduction to
Sociology; Social Problems.
School Counselor, Teacher, Dean, Albuquerque Academy, Albuquerque, NM (1988-1993)
Middle and high school counselor and teacher; dean at the middle school level.
Instructor, Dept. of Sociology and Social Work, West Maryland College, Westminster, MD (1987-88)
Undergraduate courses taught: Social Welfare Policy; Introduction to Social Work; Introduction to
Sociology; Senor Seminar; Social Work Clinical Practice.
Graduate Assistant, College of Social Work, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (1984-87)
Teaching Assistant; Undergraduate courses taught: Determinants of Social Functioning; Interviewing
Skills; Introduction to Social Work Practice. Research Assistant.
Middle and High School Teacher and Counselor, Colegio Americano De Puebla, Puebla Mexico (1982-84)
Taught English and Psychology; high school counselor
Social Worker, Dept. of Management and Assessment, Special Services for Children, NY, NY (1980-82)
Program assessment and evaluation of child welfare agencies
Educational/Vocational Coordinator, Social Worker, Child Care Worker, Heartsease Home, NY, NY (1975-80)
Educational/vocational counseling and placement for foster children in residential care.
Resource Room Teacher, Concord Public Schools, Concord, MA (1973-74)
Assistant Teacher, Horace Mann School for the Deaf, Boston Public Schools, Roxbury, MA (1972-73)
PUBLICATIONS______
Books
Herr, K. & Anderson, G.L. (forthcoming 1/05). The Action Research Dissertation: A Guide for Students and Faculty. Sage Publications.
Anderson, G.L. & Herr, K. (Eds.) (under contract) Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice (3 volumes). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publ.
Anderson, G.L., Herr, K. & Nihlen, A.S. (1994). Studying Your Own School: An Educator=s Guide to
Qualitative Practitioner Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press (7th Printing; continued best seller).
Refereed and Peer Reviewed Publications:
Herr, K. (in press) Administrators mandating mediation: Tools of institutional violence cloaked in the discourse of reconciliation. The International Journal of Leadership in Education.
Herr, K. & Arms, E. (2004). Accountability and single sex classes: A collision of reform agendas. American Educational Research Journal, 41(3), 527-555.
Herr, K. & Anderson, G.L. (2003). Violent youth or violent schools? A critical incident analysis
of symbolic violence. The International Journal of Leadership in Education, 6(4), 415-433.
*Gruenewald, D. & Herr, K. ( 2002). Children, youth and sustainable development. In L. Nkemdirim (Ed.)
Canada and United State of America: Overview of the physical and human dimensions of life support systems,
In The Encyclopedia of Life Support System. Developed under the auspices of the UNESCO Eolss Publ. Oxford, UK [http://www.eolss.net] *Authors in alphabetical order.
Herr, K. & Arms, E. (2002). The intersection of educational reforms: Documenting the first
year in a public middle school=s single sex experiment. In A. Datnow & L. Hubbard (Eds.). Doing Gender in Policy and Practice: Perspectives on Single Sex and Coeducational Schooling. Routledge. 74-89
Anderson, G.L & Herr, K. (1999). The new paradigm wars: Is there room for rigorous practitioner research in schools and universities? Educational Researcher, 28 (5). 12-21, 40.
Herr, K. (1999). The symbolic uses of participation: Co-opting change. Theory into Practice, 38 (4). 235-240.
Herr, K. (1999). Unearthing the unspeakable: When teacher research and political agendas collide. Language Arts, 77 (1). 10-15.
Herr, K. (1999). Private power and privileged education: De/constructing institutionalized racism. Journal of Inclusive Education, 3 (2). 111-129.
Herr, K. (1999). Institutional violence in the everyday practices of school: The narrative of a young lesbian. Journal for a Just and Caring Education, 5 (3). 242-255.
Herr, K. (1997). Learning lessons from school: Homophobia, heterosexism and the construction of failure. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services, 7 (4). 51-64.
Herr, K. & Anderson, G.L. (1997). The cultural politics of identity: Student narratives from two Mexican secondary schools. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 10 (1) 45-61.
Herr, K. (1996). Creating safe spaces in middle schools for the voices of girls and women. Middle School Journal, 27 (5). 16-21.
Herr, K. (1995). Action research as empowering practice. Journal of Progressive Human Services, 6 (2). 45-58.
Anderson, G.L., Herr, K. & Nihlen, A.S. (1994). The politics of practitioner research in formal educational settings. In G. Delgado & M. Rueda (Eds.) Investigacion Cualitativa en Educacion: Perspectivas Internacionales. (Bilingual edition). Mexico City: National University of Mexico (UNAM).
Herr, K. & Anderson, G.L. (1993). Oral history for student empowerment: Capturing students= inner voices. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 6 (3). 185-196.
Anderson, G.L. & Herr, K. (1993). The micro-politics of silence: Moving from diversity of bodies to diversity of voices in schools. In C. Marshall & P. Zodhiates (Eds.) The 1992 Yearbook of Politics of Education Association: The New Politics of Race and Gender. London: Falmer Press.
Herr, K. & Anderson, G.L. (1993). The struggle for voice: Institutional deafness and student
diversity. Ninth Annual Cross-Cultural Winter Roundtable Proceedings. New York: Teachers=
College Press.
Anderson, G. & Herr, K. (1992). Reclamando voces perdidos: Otorgandole poder a la voz estudiantil. In M. Rueda & M Campos (Eds.), La Etnografia Educativa: Perspectivas de las Americas. Mexico City: Center for Research and Educational Services (CISE), The National University of Mexico (UNAM).
Herr, K. (1988). Sex, babies and life: Young mothers reflect. Equal Play, 3 (1), 25-27.
Submitted for Publication:
Herr, K. Beyond creating criminals: Humanizing education for boys of color.
Invited Publications
Herr, K. (in press). Reconsidering “problem” students. J. Kincheloe (Ed.) Questions about Classroom Teaching.
Herr, K. (forthcoming). Adolescence. F. English (Ed.) The SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration. Sage Publications.
Herr, K. (forthcoming). At-risk students. F. English (Ed.) The SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration. Sage Publications.
Herr, K. (forthcoming). Problematizing the ‘Problem’ Teen: Reconceptualizing Adolescent
Development. J. L. Kincheloe & R. A. Horn, Jr. (Eds.) Education and Psychology: An Encyclopedia.
Greenwood Publishing Co.
Herr, K. (forthcoming). Honoring student voice through teacher research. In F. Duff, L. Keefe, V. Moore (Eds.) Students with Disabilities Speak Out About Their School Experiences. Brooks Publishing.
Herr, K. (2003). Institutional violence in the everyday practices of school: The narrative of a young
Lesbian. In L.D. Baker (Ed.) Life in America: Identity and Everyday Experience. Malden, MA: Blackwell
Publishing, 240-247 (Reprinted from Journal for a Just and Caring Education)
Anderson, G.L., Bentley, M., Gallegos, B., Herr, K. & Saavedra, E., (1998). Teaching within/against the backlash: A collective dialogue about power and pedagogy in the 1990's. In R. Chavez Chavez & J. O=Donnell (Eds.) Speaking the Unpleasant: The Politics of Nonengagment in Multicultural Education. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. 274-295.
Anderson, G.L., Herr, K. & Nihlen, A. (1996). What does practitioner research look like?
Teaching and Change, 3 (2), 173-206. (Reprinted from Studying Your Own School).
Bentley, M. & Herr, K. (1996). Contextualizing the development of adolescent girls: The
missing piece in HIV prevention. In M. Moore & M. Forst (Eds.) AIDS Education: Reaching Diverse Groups. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Herr, K. (1993). ASomething to keep the relationship holding@: Victoria, a pregnant adolescent. In R. Donmoyer & R. Kos (Eds.) At-Risk Students: Portraits, Policies, Programs and Practices. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. 119-134.
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS______
Refereed Conference Presentations - National/International
2004
Teaching other people’s sons: White teachers and male students of color. Paper presented at the 25th Annual Ethnography in Educational Research Forum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2/04
Issues in Chicano/Latino Education, symposium presentation at National Association of Chicano/Chicana Studies,
Albuquerque, NM, 3/04.
Creating a New Handbook for Achieving Gender Equity through Education, symposium presentation for the American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, 4/04
Listening to Students, Looking at Student Work, symposium presentation for the American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, 4/04
Teaching Other People’s Sons: White Teachers and Male Students of Color, paper presentation at the American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, 4/04
2003
Violent youth or violent schools? A critical incident analysis of symbolic violence (with Gary L. Anderson), paper presented at the American Educational Studies Association Conference, Mexico City, Mexico.
Accountability and single gender reform: Implications for curriculum and instructional practice, (with E. Arms), presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL
The Empire Strikes Back: A Discussion of the Implications of the National Research Council’s Report, Scientific Research in Education, for Action Research and Other Strategies Designed to Bridge the Research-Practice Gap, (multiple participants), interactive symposium presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.
A Gendered Accounting of AERA Journals: Looking Back, Charting the Future, symposium presentation at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL
2002
Cultivating Gender Bending in the Classroom: Boys Crossing Over, presented at the American Educational Studies Association Conference, Pittsburgh, PA (Oct 30-Nov. 3)
Administrators Mandating Mediation: Tools of Institutional Violence Cloaked in the Discourse of Reconciliation, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.
2001
Where the Boys Are: All-Male Classes in a Public Middle School, paper presented at the 2nd Annual Ethnography in Education Conference, UC-Santa Barbara/CSU-LA, Los Angeles, CA.
Teaching AReal Boys@: Lessons Learned from a Middle School=s Single Sex Experiment, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Seattle, WA
The Intersection of Educational Reform: Single Gender Academies in a Public Middle School, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Seattle, WA,
(with Emily Arms).
Giving Schools the Business: The Construction and Marketing of University-Based Educational Research, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Seattle, WA (with Gary Anderson).
Teaching AReal Boys@: Lessons from a Public Middle School=s Single Sex Experiment, paper presented at the 18th Annual Teachers College Winter Roundtable on Cross-Cultural Psychology and Education, NY, NY.
2000
Transforming Schools from Within: School Wide Inquiry and the Processes of Authentic Reform, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.
Teacher/Student Research: Making a Difference, Meeting the Challenge, paper presented at the First Annual Ethnography in Education Conference, UC-Santa Barbara/CSU-LA, Los Angeles, CA.
Education for AOther People=s Children@ - Problematizing Standardized Testing, paper presented at University Council of Educational Administration, Albuquerque, NM.
1999
Problematizing the Sacred in the Education of Teachers: The Co-optation of Teacher Research, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada.
Unearthing the Unspeakable: When Teacher Research and Political Agendas Collide, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada.
1998
Learning Lessons from School: Homophobia, Heterosexism, and the Construction of Failure, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.
Symbolic Uses of Participation: Co-opting Change, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.
1997
A Privileged Education: De/Constructing Issues of Race in One Private School, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.
Discussant for Symposium: Facilitating Transformative Learning with Teachers in Collaborative Contexts: The Role of the Facilitator, at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.
1996
The Hidden Curriculum of Violence: The Experience of Being Female in Schools, paper presented at the American Educational Studies Association Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada.
Co-optation Through Legitimation: Controlling the Discourse of Change, paper presented at the American Educational Studies Association Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada.