Professor Michael Olneck
Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Sociology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of Educational Policy Studies
211 Education Building
1000 Bascom Mall
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Tel: (608) 262-9967
Email: olneck@education.wisc.edu
Doctoral Degree:
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Ed.D. Education and Social Policy, 1976.
Academic Areas of Interest:
Sociology of education; Public policy and education; Race, ethnicity, and immigration, and education; Multiculturalism in education; Stratification and education.
On-Campus Affiliaions:
Institute for Research on Poverty
Honors and Awards:
1977, 1990, 1992, 1995 U.W.-Madison Graduate School Summer Support
1978-1979 U.W.-Madison School of Education Spencer Grant
1984-1985 Spencer Foundation Large Grant, "Ethnicity, Pluralism, and American Education"
1994 Spencer Foundation Small Grant, "Terms of Inclusion: Possibilities for Pluralism in American Education"
Current and Recent Professional Activities:
Department Chair, 2000-2003.
Member, AERA-Spencer Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Selection Committee, 1997-2000.
Member, Advisory Board, American Journal of Education, 1995-1998.
Member, Advisory Board, Sociology of Education, 1995-1998.
Current Research Projects:
In process of completing long-term study on racial, ethnic, and linguistic pluralism in American education, tentatively entitled, "Terms of Inclusion: Cultural Pluralism and American Education." The study analyzes the Americanization movement of the early 20th century, the Intercultural Education movement of the 1930s and 1940s, bilingual education and language policy since the late 1960s, and multicultural education during the period 1970 to the present.
Currently working on a chapter to be entitled "Regulating Language: Ebonics, Bilingual Education, and the Contestation of Linguistic Capital in American Education," which analyzes language and education policies as exemplars of struggles over "recognitional justice" and "cultural capital."
Recent and Representative Publications:
Economic Consequences of the Academic Achievement Gap for African Americans. Marquette Law Review , Vol. 89 (Fall 2005): 95-104.
"Immigrants and Education in the United States." In J. Banks (editor), Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education, Second edition. (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 2004).
"Re-naming, Re-imagining America: Multicultural Curriculum as Classification Struggle." Pedagogy, Culture, & Society, Vol. 9 (2001): 333-355.
"Can Multicultural Education Change What Counts as Cultural Capital?" American Educational Research Journal , Vol. 37 (Summer, 2000): 317-348. Click here for link to article.
"Terms of Inclusion: Has Multiculturalism Redefined Equality in American Education?" American Journal of Education , Vol. 101 (May, 1993): 234-260. Click here for link to article.
"The Recurring Dream: Symbolism and Ideology in Intercultural and Multicultural Education." American Journal of Education, Vol. 98 (February, 1990): 147-174. Click here for link to article.
"Americanization and the Education of Immigrants, 1900-1925: An Analysis of Symbolic Action," American Journal of Education, Vol. 97 (August, 1989): 398-423.
Courses Taught:
EPS 150: Education and Public Policy
EPS 200: Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality in American Education
EPS 300: School and Society
EPS 460: Cultural Pluralism and Educational Policy
EPS 500: Social Issues and Education
EPS/Sociology 648: Sociology of Education
EPS 720: Proseminar in Social Science and Educational Policy
EPS/Sociology 908: Seminar in Sociology of Education
EPS 920: Seminar in Education and Public Policy
