Professor Mary Bushnell Greiner
Associate Professor
Social Foundations of Education, Anthropology and Education
Ph.D., 1998, University of Virginia
Powdermaker 054 S
(718) 997-5385
email: mbushnell@QC.edu
My scholarly interests include the social
context of teaching and professionalism. More recently I have become involved
with aesthetics and education through our departmental and divisional collaboration
with the Lincoln
Center Institute (LCI). As
an urban educator my ongoing concern is for social justice, which speaks to the
necessity of a critical education for all students that will enable them to be
active participants in a democratic society. I am an active member in the American
Educational Studies Association, the American
Anthropological Association, and the American
Educational Research Association. I am also involved with the Institute
for Democracy in Education.
Recent publications include:
Bushnell, M. and S. E. Henry. (forthcoming Spring 2003). The Role of Reflection
in Epistemological Change: Autobiography in Teacher Education. Educational
Studies.
Bushnell, M. (forthcoming). Learning Representations and Interpretations: Aesthetic
Education in Dark Times. Educational Studies.
Bushnell, M. (2001). This Bed of Roses Has Thorns: Cultural Assumptions and Community
in an Elementary School. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 32(2), 1-28.
Bushnell, M. (1999). Imagining Rural Life: Schooling as a Sense of Place. Journal
of Research in Rural Education, 16(2), 80-89.
Bushnell, M. (1999). The Evolution of a Small School: Free Union Country School,
in Semel, S. and Sadovnik, A. (Eds.) “Schools of Tomorrow,” Schools
of Today, New York: Peter Lang Press, pp. 255-288.
"Where every public decision has to
be justified in the scales of corporate profits, poetry unsettles these apparently
self-evident propositions -- not through ideology, but by its very presence
and ways of being, its embodiment of states of longing and desire."
- Adrienne Rich