연세대학교 교육연구소

안녕하세요. 연세대학교 교육연구소입니다. 

저희 연구소는 2024년 제2회 해외석학 초청 세미나를 4월 25일 오전 11시 30분부터 12시30분까지 교육과학관 406호에서 진행합니다. 관심 있으신 분들의 많은 참여 부탁드립니다. 

연세대학교 교육연구소 

2024년 제2회 해외석학 초청 세미나

(YIER Special Lecture Series)

▶일시: 2024년 4월 25일 목요일 11:30-12:30

▶장소: 연세대학교 교육과학관 406호

▶강연자: Jeffrey R. Henig

▶주제: Why Politics Matter in Education

▶초록: In my talk with you I’m going to usethe example of the tradition of localism in the  United States and how it has evolved over the past 120 years. I’ll start with a brief outline of the ideas and institutions that dominated American education for most of the 20^thCentury.  Then I’ll discuss (three? Four?) broad challenges to that tradition ( these are tktk). While these challenges were often framed as being apolitical—new ideas about how to make education better—these movements were political in nature as well: they provided advantages to some groups at the expense of others and at least some of those pushing the changes recognized and were motivated by that goal rather than abstract principles or compelling evidence. I’ll suggest that some of the changes that have come about may have beneficial aspects, but that these are linked to possible dangers.  And I’ll end by suggesting that students of education and education policy—in addition to learning about good practice and empirical policy evaluation--need to understand—and to some extent master—the political nature of their enterprise rather than close their eyes.

▶강연자 소개: Jeffrey R. Henig is a professor of political science and education at Teachers College and a professor of political science at Columbia University. He an elected fellow of the American Educational Research Association and  member of the National Academy of Education. 

Henig is the author or coauthor of thirteen books and monographs, including The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics and the Challenge of Urban Education (Princeton, 1999) and Building Civic Capacity: The Politics of Reforming Urban Schools  (Kansas, 2001), both of which were named--in 1999 and 2001, respectively--the best book written on urban politics by the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. Spin Cycle: How Research Gets Used in Policy Debates. The Case of Charter Schools (Russell Sage, 2008) focuses on the controversy surrounding the charter school study by the American Federation of Teachers and its implications for understanding politics, politicization, and the use of research to inform public discourse; it won the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Outstanding Book Award, 2010.  The End of Exceptionalism in American Education, which examines the changing political landscape of education decision-making, was published by Harvard Education Press in January 2013. His most recent book, Outside Money in School Board Elections: The Nationalization of Education Politics, co-authored with Rebecca Jacobsen and Sarah Reckhow, was published by Harvard Education Press in March 2019.

In addition to his scholarly publications, Professor Henig’s writing on contemporary policy issues aimed at more general audiences have appeared in Education Week, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Boston Globe; LA Times, Washington Post, The New York Times, and as guest posts on prominent education policy blogs.