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Craig Kridel "One of the
conditions of happiness is the opportunity of a calling, |
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"if I and other teachers truly want to provoke our students to break through the limits of the conventional and the taken for granted, we ourselves have to experience breaks with what has been established in our own lives; we have to keep arousing ourselves to begin again." Maxine Greene
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| I serve as a Professor of Educational Studies in the
Department of Educational Studies. In this role, I teach courses in
foundations of education and biographical research. This homepage, as
requested by the Department of Educational Studies, describes the
different areas of my work–namely, my research, teaching, and various
administrative projects. I have oriented these pages for my students at
University of South Carolina and present this information as an
alternative to such accounts during class sessions. |
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“The things in civilization we most prize are not of ourselves. They exist by grace of the doings and sufferings of the continuous human community in which we are a link. Ours is the responsibility of conserving, transmitting, rectifying, and expanding the heritage of values we have received that those who come after us may receive it more solid and secure, more widely accessible and more generously shared than we have received it” (John Dewey, A Common Faith, 1934, p. 87) |
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 Craig Kridel with Alex English, Kenny Carr and The Tigers at Carolina Shout, 2001. |
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the Dewey tombstone at the University of Vermont with the same inscription as the motto for the Museum of Education (the final passage from A Common Faith) |
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with Helen van Dongen after an oral history interview while conducting film research for the Eight Year Study manuscript, July 2006.
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My research interests include Progressive education as portrayed through biographical research and, quite specifically, as represented in the Eight Year Study and the Secondary School Study (Black High School Study). I am active in the American Educational Research Association and, as a former aesthetic educator, I continue to involve myself with various historical music organizations and research activities–notably, as coordinator of Berlioz Historical Brass (an ensemble devoted to the presentation of early 19th century brass instruments), organology (the research of early 19th century bass horns), and as a "special friend" of The Tigers (an African-American shout band from Charlotte). My primary work, however, revolves around the foundations of education as they impact upon the areas of teacher education, school change, and community development. These webpages are meant to be informative and to serve as an invitation for those who wish to explore the field of education (as well aesthetic topics). My motives consist of building communities for my students and colleagues, and each topic strives to offer additional educational experiences and directions for further research. |
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"Thoughtfulness requires
wide- awakeness– a willingness to look at
the conditions of our lives, to consider alternatives and different
possibilities, to challenge received wisdom and the taken for
granted, and to link our conduct with our consciousness."William Ayers
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 with Peter Schickele at the 2008 AERA Conference, New York City |
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 with members of The Tigers, Carolina Shout, 2006 |
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Craig Kridel Copyright 2009. Board of Trustees, the University
of South Carolina. |
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