Dr. Richard Halverson

Richard Halverson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Learning Sciences
PhD, Northwestern University

Course link: EA 702: Introduction to Elementary and Secondary Educational Administration (Spring 2002)

Successful leadership practice is notoriously difficult and expensive to capture and communicate. My research is focused on the ways in which people access, learn and teach sophisticated, situated practices like school leadership. I'm interested in building on-line, multimedia technologies to access and document successful school leadership practice, and in developing ideas that can capture the complexity, expertise and situated nature of leadership practice.

RESEARCH STATEMENT

Developing theoretical and design frameworks for accessing, documenting and communication instructional leadership practice in schools;
Designing mutually supportive software and instructional strategies to promote reflective inquiry about complex, discretionary practices among school leaders;
Applying classical accounts of the relation of theory to practice to current academic and professional conversations;
Articulating a historical account of the how computing technologies will change American education.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

James P. Spillane, Richard Halverson, and John B. Diamond (2001) "Investigating School Leadership Practice: A Distributed Perspective." Educational Researcher, v30, n3. April 2001 http://www.aera.net/pubs/er/pdf/vol30_03/AERA300306.pdf

Richard Halverson & Louis Gomez (2001) "Phronesis and Design: How Practical Wisdom is Disclosed through Collaborative Design." Paper presented at the 2001 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Seattle WA.
http://www.letus.org/PDF/HalversonAERA2001.pdf

Richard Halverson & Jennifer Zoltners. (2001) "Distribution Across Artifacts: How Designed Artifacts Illustrate School Leadership Practice." Paper presented at the 2001 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Seattle WA.
http://www.letus.org/dls/papers/Halverson_AERA_DLS_040101%20d.pdf

Richard Halverson & Louis M. Gomez (1998) "Technology and schools." Digital Infrastructures Think Papers: Metropolitan Chicago Group.
http://www.nwu.edu/it/metrochicago/think3.htm

CONTACT DR. Halverson:

1188 Educational Sciences Building
1025 West Johnson Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1796

Tel: (608) 265-4772
Fax: (608) 265-3135

Email: halverson@education.wisc.edu

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