Lynch School of Education

Marilyn Cochran-Smith

john e. cawthorne millennium professor of teacher education for urban schools

director, doctoral program in curriculum and instruction

Marilyn Cochran-Smith

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EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

EXPERTISE/INTERESTS

Teacher education research, practice and policy; practitioner inquiry and teacher learning across the professional lifespan; teaching/teacher education and issues of equity, diversity and social justice

HONORS/PUBLICATIONS/PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• 2009 election to the National Academy of Education for her pioneering efforts in educational research and policy development

•2008 AERA Inaugural Fellow for her outstanding national and international contributions to research in education

• 2007 AERA Award for Relating Research to Practice for Policy, Practice and Politics in Teacher Education (Corwin Press, 2006)

• 2006 Inaugural holder of the C.J. Koh Endowed Distinguished Professorship, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

2005 AACTE Best Publication Award for Studying Teacher Education: The Report of the AERA Panel on Research and Teacher Education (Erlbaum, 2005)


Selected Recent Publications

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2006 Cochran-Smith, Marilyn. Policy, Practice and Politics in Teacher Education: Editorials from The Journal of Teacher Education. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

2006 Cochran-Smith, M. & Lytle, S.L. Troubling Images of Teaching in NCLB. Harvard Educational Review. Winter 2006, 76(4): 668-697.

2006 Cochran-Smith, M. The Future of Teacher Education: Ten Promising Trends (and Three Big Worries). Educational Leadership 63(6): 20-25.

2006 Cochran-Smith, M. Teacher Education and the Need for Public Intellectuals, The New Educator 2: 1-26.

2006 Cochran-Smith, Marilyn and Donnell, Kelly. Practitioner Inquiry: Blurring the Boundaries of Research and Practice. In Gregory Camilli, Patricia Elmore, & Judith Green (Eds.) Complementary Methods for Research in Education (2nd edition). Washington:AERA.

2005 Cochran-Smith, Marilyn and Zeichner, Ken (Editors). Studying Teacher Education: The Report of the AERA Panel on Research and Teacher Education. Mahweh, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers.

2005 Cochran-Smith, M. The New Teacher Education: For Better or For Worse? Educational Researcher. 34(7): 3-17.

2005 Cochran-Smith, Marilyn and Fries, Kim. Researching Teacher Education in Changing Times: Paradigms and Politics, In M. Cochran-Smith and K. Zeichner (Eds.) Studying Teacher Education: The Report of the AERA Panel on Research and Teacher Education. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Press, pp. 69-110.

2005 Fries, Kim and Cochran-Smith, Marilyn. Teacher Research and Classroom Management: What Questions Do Teachers Ask? In C. Evertson and C. Weinstein (Eds.) The Handbook of Research on Classroom Management. New York: Erlbaum Publishing Company, PP. 945-981.

2004 Cochran-Smith, Marilyn Walking the Road: Race, Diversity and Social Justice in Teacher Education. New York: Teachers College Press.

2004 Cochran-Smith, Marilyn and Lytle, Susan. “Practitioner Inquiry, Knowledge, and University Culture. In J. Loughran, M.L. Hamilton, V. LaBoskey, & T. Russell (Eds.), International Handbook of Research of Self-Study of Teac hing and Teacher Education Practices. Amsterdam: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

2003 Cochran-Smith, Marilyn, Davis, Danne, and Fries, Mary Kim. “Multicultural Teacher Education: Research, Practice and Policy.” In J. Banks (Ed.) Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education (2nd edition). San Fra ncisco: Jossey Bass: pp. 931-975.

2003 Cochran-Smith, Marilyn. “Learning and Unlearning: The Education of Teacher Educators.” Teaching and Teacher Education International Journal of Scholarship and Studies. 19: 5-28