Assistant Professor Nancy Kendall
Assistant Professor of Educational Policy Studies
Faculty Affiliate of the Women’s Studies department,
Development Studies and African Studies.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of Educational Policy Studies
205 Education Building
1000 Bascom Mall
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
(608) 263-2939
Email: nkendall@education.wisc.edu
Doctoral Degree:
Stanford University, Ph.D. International and Comparative Education, 2004.
Dissertation entitled "Global Policy as Practice: The 'Successful Failure" of Free Primary Education in Malawi".
Academic Areas of Interest:
Comparative and international education policy, with foci in Education for All and education and: democratization, HIV/AIDS, gender, and orphans and vulnerable children. Regional interests: sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, highly-indebted poor countries (HIPCs).
Current and Recent Professional Activities:
Comparative and International Education Society
Gender committee co-chair-elect, 2008
Joyce Cain Committee co-chair, 2007 meeting
CIES Africa SIG program chair, 2006 and 2007
American Educational Research Association
Reviewer, division L, SIG on Africa, SIG on Global Child Rights
Invited special editor, the National Center for Sexuality Research's (UCSF) peer-reviewed journal, Sexuality Research and Social Policy
Reviewer (2006)
Review for Equity and Excellence in Education
Sexuality Research and Social Policy
Sex Education
Comparative Education Review
Race Ethnicity and Education
Consultant for: Academy for Educational Development; Creative Associates International, Inc.; RAND; USAID; CARE; Save the Children; Miske, Witt, and Associates
Current Research Projects:
The Effects of US Support for Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Education in Malawi and Mozambique, supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the University of Madison Fall Research Competition.
“Sexuality Education in American Public Schools: (Re)Making Gender, Disease, and Morality.” Funded by the Social Science Research Council.
Childhood, "Vulnerability", and Education: Local,
National, and International Policies and Practices Concerning Schooling
for AIDS-affected Children in Mozambique, supported by a Fulbright
Fellowship.
Current and Recent Grants and Awards
Fulbright Research/Teaching Fellowship at the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique"(2007-2008)
Wenner-Gren post-PhD Research Grant, 2007
UW-Madison Fall Research Competition (2006)
Child on the Wing Fellowship (Rockefeller Foundation 2006)
Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Gail P. Kelly Dissertation Award (2005)
Social Science Research Council Sexuality Fellowship (2004-2006)
Institute for Research on Women and Gender Dissertation Fellow (2003-2004)
Department of Education (DOE) Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS)
Fellowship (2002-2004)
Fulbright-Hayes Dissertation Research Fellowship (2001-2002)
Recent and Representative Publications:
Kendall, N. Parental and Community Participation in Improving Educational Quality In Africa: Current Practices and Future Possibilities. Accepted for publication in the International Review of Education, special edition on educational quality in Africa.
*Kendall, N. (2007). Education for All Meets Political Democratization: Free Primary Education and the Neoliberalization of the Malawian School and State. Comparative Education Review 51(3): 281-305.
*Kendall, N. and C. O'Gara. (2007). Vulnerable Children, Communities, and Schools: Lessons from Three HIV/AIDS Affected Areas. Compare, 37(1): 3-21.
Kendall, N. (2006). "'Balancing the Books: Household Financing of Basic Education in Cambodia' and 'Reducing the Burden on the Poor: Household Costs of Basic Education in Gansu, China.'" Book review. International Journal of Educational Development 26(4): 445-447.
Kendall, N. (2006). Strengthening Gender and Education Programming in the 21st Century. Working paper. Washington, DC: Academy for Educational Development, EQUIP II Project. Available at: http://www.equip123.net/docs/e2-GenderEquity_WP.pdf
Kendall, N. (2006). Why Gender Equity in Education Reform? Policy brief. Washington, DC: Academy for Educational Development, EQUIP II Project. Available at: http://equip123.net/docs/e2-GenderEquity_PB.pdf
Kendall, N. (2006). Stakeholder Collaboration: An Imperative for Educational Quality. Working paper. Washington, DC: Academy for Educational Development, EQUIP II Project. Available at: http://www.equip123.net/docs/e2-StakeholderCollabo_WP.pdf
Kendall, N. (2006). Does Stakeholder Collaboration Improve Educational Quality? Policy brief. Washington, DC: Academy for Educational Development, EQUIP II Project. Available at: http://www.equip123.net/docs/e2-StakeholderCollabo_PB.pdf
*Kendall, N. (2005). "Comparative Approaches to Examining Educational Change: Education and Democratization in Malawi." A. Wiseman and D. Baker, eds. International Perspectives on Education and Society. New York: Elsevier Press.
*Kendall, N. (2003). "Localizing Democracy and Good Governance." Peace Review, 15:3, p. 259-266.
Mundy, K. and N. Kendall. (2002). "International Development Projects." In the Encyclopedia of Education, Farmington Hill, MI: McMillan.
*Kaunda, Z. and N. Kendall. (2001). "Prospects for Educating for Democracy in Struggling Third Wave Regimes: The Case of Malawi." Current Issues in Comparative Education, 4:1. Available on-line at: http://www.tc.columbia.edu/cice/Archives/4.1/41kaunda_kendall.pdf
Articles in Progress
Expansive Public Schooling and Neoliberal Development Regimes in
Africa: Contradictions or Collaborations?
“Vulnerability” in AIDS-Affected States: Rethinking Child Rights,
Educational Institutions, and Development Paradigms.
“If Parents Complain, We Can Blame the State”: Sexuality Education
Policies and Practices in an Abstinence-Only Era.
Courses Taught
Introduction to International Development Education
Education Workshop on International Development Education Policy
Introduction to Comparative Education
Corss-National Problems in Educational Policy: Special Topics (Education, Sexuality and Health in 2007)
Introduction to Globalization and Education
