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Areas of research

Curriculum Studies: school reform research and practices as a new form of school reform; relation between education policy to histories and contexts of those addressed; nature and use of so-called research evidence for practice, history and future of the Didaktik and Curriculum transatlantic exchange of education traditions and theories about public schooling

Foundations: comparative analyses of societal, political, philosophical, historical and cultural contexts that construe and construct the meanings of public schooling and education for different people, over time and in different spaces

School and Education Research: public schooling and teaching as situated, emerging and contingent endeavor for those it serves

Applied Phenomonology: inquiring into the multiple realities (Schütz, 1945) of schooling

research interests

Transatlantic exchanges and traditions of thinking about education, schooling and school reform, broadly defined

Applied phenomenology: the phenomenological interview as existential communication, appraoches to research-practice partnerships (RPPS), teacher education (especially pre-service training)

Tendencies of resegregation in public schooling

Historiography of accountability policies