Bernadette M. Baker

Professor
Center for Global Studies, Holtz Center for Social Studies of Science and Technology, & Dept of Curriculum and Instruction
Teacher Education Building Rm: 514C
225 N. Mills Street
Madison, Wisconsin, 53706, USA
Phone: International: +1-1-608-263-4657         Secondary Phone: Domestic: 1-608-263-4657
Email: bbaker@education.wisc.edu

Areas of Study

• Curriculum Theory and Research
• Elementary Education
• International Studies in Curriculum, Pedagogy & Teacher Education
• Multicultural Education

Publications

Baker, B. (2005). State-formation, teaching techniques and globalisation as aporia. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 26 (1), (pp. 47-79) .

Baker, B. (2004). The functional liminality of the not-dead-yet students, or, how public schooling became compulsory: A glancing history. Rethinking History, 8 (1), (pp. 5-49).

Baker, B & Heyning, K. (Eds) (2004). Dangerous Coagulations? The Uses of Foucault in the Study of Education New York: Peter Lang.

Baker, B. (2003). Plato's child and the limit-points of educational theories. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 22 (6), (pp. 439-474 ) .

Baker, B. M.  (2002). (Ap)Pointing the canon: Rousseau's Emile, visions of the state, and education. Educational Theory, 51(1), (pp. 1-41).

Baker. B. M. (2002). The hunt for disability: The new eugenics and the normalization of schoolchildren. Teachers College Record, 104, (pp. 663-703).

Baker, B. M. (2001). In perpetual motion: Theories of power, educational history, and the child.  New York: Peter Lang.

Interests

• History and Philosophy of Knowledge
• Curriculum History and Theory
• 'Post' Approaches in Humanities and Social Sciences
• Transnational Curriculum Inquiry
• Humanities-based Disability Studies
• Curriculum Studies and Curriculum Planning

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