Thomas S. Popkewitz

Professor
My studies are concerned with the systems of reason that govern educational policy and research related to pedagogy and teacher education. My research includes historical, ethnographic and comparative studies of national educational reforms in Asia, Europe, Latin America, Southern Africa, and the U.S. The research has been translated and published in 12 languages.
I am a Senior International Academician in the Russian Academy of Education (elected 1996); Ed.D. New York University, 1970; Ph.D.h.c. Umea University (Sweden), 1989; Ph.D.h.c. University of Lisboa (Portugal), 2001; Ph.D.h.c.. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, (Belgium), 2004: Ph.D. h.c. University of Helsinki. (Finland), 2007.
Teacher Education Rm: 464B
225 N. Mills Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Phone: (608) 263-7343        
Email: tspopkew@wisc.edu

Areas of Study

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

Publications

Popkewitz, Tom (2008). Cosmopolitanism and the age of school reform: Science, education and making society by making the child. New York: Routledge..

Ozga, Jenny, Seddon, Terri , & Popkewitz, Thomas (Eds.). (2006). Education research and policy: Steering the knowledge-based economy. World Year Book, 2006. London:Taylor and Francis.

Popkewitz, T, Olsson, U., & Petersson, K. Kowalczyk, J. (Eds.). (2006). ’The future is not what it appears to be’. Pedagogy, peneaology and political epistemology in honor and In memorial to Kenneth Hultqvist. Stockholm: Stockholm Institute of Education Press.

Popkewitz, Thomas (Ed.) (2005). Inventing the modern self and John Dewey. Modernities and the traveling of pragmatism in education. New York: Palgravemacmillan.

Popkewitz, T. (2003). National imaginaries, indigenous foreigner, and power: Comparative educational research. J. Schriewer (Ed.). Discourse formation in comparative education. , (pp. 261-294). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.

Popkewitz, T., Franklin, B., & Pereyra, M. (Eds.) (2001). Cultural history and critical studies of education: Critical essays on knowledge and schooling.  New York, NY: Routledge.

Popkewitz, T. & Novoa, A. red.  (2001). La fabrication de l'enseignant professionnel; La rason du savioir. (Reconstituting the teacher and teacher education: National imaginaries and difference). Recherche et Formation por less professions de l'education. Institut National de Recherche Pedagogique, 38

Popkewitz, T. (2000). Reform as the social administration of the child: Globalization of knowledge and power. N. Burbules & C. Torres (Eds.). Globalization and educational policy. , (pp. 157-186). New York: Routledge.

Popkewitz, T. (Ed.) (2000). Educational knowledge: Changing relationships between the state, civil society, and the educational community.  Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press.

Popkewitz, T. (1998). Struggling for the soul: The politics of schooling and the construction of the teacher.  New York: Teachers College Press.

Popkewitz, T. (1991). A political sociology of educational reform: Power/knowledge in teaching, teacher education and research.  New York: Teachers College Press.

Interests

• Political Sociology of Curriculum and Education Sciences
• Educational Reform & Change
• Teacher Education
• International and Comparative Studies of Schooling

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