The Oxford Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies
William H. Schubert and Ming Fang He
Author Information
William H. Schubert is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) where he was a faculty member for 36 years and where he coordinated the Ph.D. Program in Curriculum Studies and served as Chair of Curriculum & Instruction and Director of Graduate Studies. He grew up in rural northeastern Indiana, and earned an undergraduate degree from Manchester University, a Master's Degree from Indiana University-Bloomington, and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and has also studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Chicago, and Northwestern University. At UIC he was awarded the position of University Scholar and received several university-wide awards for teaching and mentoring. Dr. Schubert is an elected Fellow of the International Academy of Education, an elected member of Professors of Curriculum, and recipient of the 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award in Curriculum Studies of the American Educational Research Association. He has published 19 books, over 250 articles and chapters, and presented papers or colloquia in over 300 scholarly venues. His Curriculum: Perspective, Paradigm, and Possibility (Schubert, 1986) was selected by Professors of Curriculum as the most influential curriculum text between 1970 and 1990, and both his Guide to Curriculum in Education (He, Schultz, & Schubert, 2015) and Reflections from the Heart of Educational Inquiry (Willis & Schubert, 1991) received Critics Choice Awards from the American Educational Studies Association (AESA). He has been president of the John Dewey Society, The Society for the Study of Curriculum History, and the Society of Professors of Education, as well as vice president of the American Educational Research Association. Schubert was the Consulting Editor for the Sage Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies (Kridel, 2010) and editor of Part Three (Curriculum Theory) of the Sage Handbook of Curriculum and Instruction (Connelly, He, & Phillion, 2008). His work deals with curriculum history, theory, and development in school and non-school cultural contexts. He has authored bibliographical essays that are noted references in Curriculum Studies, for example: Curriculum Books: The First Eighty Years (Schubert & Lopez, 1980); Curriculum Books: The First Hundred Years (Schubert, Lopez Schubert, Thomas, & Carroll, 2002); Schubert, W. H. (2010), "Journeys of expansion and synopsis: Tensions in books that shaped curriculum inquiry, 1968-present" (Schubert, 2010) in Curriculum Inquiry 40(1), 17-94; and Sage Guide to Curriculum in Education (He, Schultz, & Schubert, 2015). Schubert is a former elementary school teacher 1967-1975, and he has consulted and lectured widely throughout the U.S. and world for over 40 years. The Zach S. Henderson Library at Georgia Southern University holds the William H. Schubert Curriculum Studies Collection of his papers, publications, and book collection.
Ming Fang He is Professor of Curriculum Studies at Georgia Southern University. She has taught at the graduate, pre-service, and in-service levels in the United States, Canada, Hong Kong, and China. She explores education, curriculum, and life in between Eastern and Western philosophy with a focus on Confucius, John Dewey, Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, Daisaku Ikeda, Weiming Tu, Martha Nussbaum, and Edward Saïd. She has written about cross-cultural narrative inquiry of language, culture, and identity in multicultural contexts, cross-cultural teacher education, curriculum studies, activist practitioner inquiry, social justice research, exile curriculum, narrative of curriculum in the U. S. South, and transnational and diasporic studies. Her books include: A River Forever Flowing: Cross-Cultural Lives and Identities in the Multicultural Landscape (2003); Narrative and Experience in Multicultural Education (with Michael Connelly & JoAnn Phillion, 2005); Handbook of Curriculum and Instruction (with Michael Connelly & JoAnn Phillion, 2008); Personal~Passionate~Participatory Inquiry into Social Justice in Education (with JoAnn Phillion, 2008); Handbook of Asian Education [with Yong Zhao (Editor), Jing Lei, Goufang Li, Kaori Okano, Nagwa Megahed, David Gamage, & Hema Ramanathan (Co-Editors), 2011]; Sage Guide to Curriculum in Education (with Brian Schultz & William Schubert, 2015); and Oxford Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies (Editors-in-Chief with William Schubert; with Associate Editors: Isabel Nuñez, Patrick Roberts, Sabrina Ross, & Brian D. Schultz). She co-edits two book series with Information Age Publishing: Research for Social Justice: Personal~Passionate~Participatory Inquiry (with JoAnn Phillion) and Landscapes of Education (with William Schubert). She guest edited an issue of the Journal of Critical Inquiry into Curriculum and Instruction on Experiential Approaches in Curriculum Studies: Personal, Passionate, and Participatory Inquiries (with JoAnn Phillion, 2001); a special issue of the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing on Narrative of Curriculum in the U. S. South: Lives In-Between Contested Race, Gender, Class, and Power (with Sabrina Ross, 2013); and a special issue of The Sophist's Bane: A Journal of the Society of Professors of Education on Minority Women Professors Venturing on the Landscapes of Education (with Sabrina Ross, 2015). She was an Editor of Curriculum Inquiry (2003-2005). She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Educational Studies (2020-2025), a Leading Associate Editor of Multicultural Perspectives (since 2003), and a member of the International Editorial Board of Curriculum Inquiry (since 2015). She is Program Director for the Ed. D. in Curriculum Studies at Georgia Southern University (2019-2020). She was the Vice President of the AERA Division B (2014-2017). Her current research is expanded to the education of ethnic minorities and disenfranchised individuals, groups, tribes, and societies in the United States, Canada, Hong Kong, Mainland China, and other international contexts.
Contributors:
A. Kayum Ahmed, Columbia University
Dinny Risri Aletheiani, Yale University
Lorin W. Anderson, Distringuished Professor Emeritus of Education, University of South Carolina
Jo-ann Archibald -- Q'um Q'um Xiiem, University of British Columbia
Alex J. Armonda, University of Texas at Austin
Wayne Au, University of Washington Bothell
Rick Ayers, University of San Francisco
William Ayers, University of Illinois at Chicago
Pauli Badenhorst, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Michelle Bae-Dimitriadis, The Pennsylvania State University
Bernadette Baker, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Racheal Banda, Miami University
James A. Beane, Independent Scholar
Sherry Bie, The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto
David Blades, University of Victoria
Donald Blumenfeld-Jones, Arizona State University
Gloria Swindler Boutte, University of South Carolina
Jake Burdick, Purdue University
Pamela Burnard, University of Cambridge
Blanca Caldas, University of Minnesota
Nancy Cardwell, The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto
Daniel J. Castner, Indiana University Bloomington
Elaine Chan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Daniel E. Chapman, Georgia Southern University
Thandeka K. Chapman, University of California, San Diego
Kerry Chappell, University of Exeter
Drew Chappell, Chapman University
Linda Chisholm, University of Johannesburg
Nicoletta (Niki) Christodoulou, Frederick University
Miranda Christou, University of Cyprus
Laura Colucci-Gray, University of Edinburgh
Michael Connelly, The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto
Carolyn Cooke, The Open University
Christopher B. Crowley, Wayne State University
Craig A. Cunningham, Independent Scholar
Jenna Cushing-Leubner, University of Wisconsin Whitewater
Lasana D. Kazembe, Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis
Leon De Bruin, RMIT University
Noah De Lissovoy, University of Texas at Austin
Zongyi Deng, Nanyang Technological University
Catherine Doherty, Queensland University of Technology
Mary Aswell Doll, Professor Emerita, Savannah College of Art and Design
Tommy Ender, Rhode Island College
Lisa Farley, York University
Jo Flory, Oklahoma State University
Anton Franks, University of Warwick
Barry J. Fraser, Curtin University
Jessica Fuentes, Northeastern Illinois University
Lisa-Marie Gagliardi, University of Western Ontario
Kathleen Gallagher, The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto
Jeremy Garcia, University of Arizona
Julie C. Garlen, Carleton University
Walter S. Gershon, Kent State University
Barrie Gordon, Victoria University
Julie Gorlewski, University at Buffalo
Noel Gough, La Trobe University
Jason Goulah, DePaul University
Sandy Grande, University of Connecticut
Carl A. Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Donald Gray, University of Aberdeen
Shirley Gray, The University of Edinburgh
Maria Hadjipavlou, University of Cyprus
Horace R. Hall, DePaul University
Anne Harris, RMIT University
Nicholas D. Hartlep, Metropolitan State University
Charlotte Hathaway, University of Exeter
Robert Helfenbein, Loyola University Maryland
Ming Fang He, Georgia Southern University
James G. Henderson, Kent State University - Retired
Petra Munro Hendry, Louisiana State University System
Peter Hlebowitsh, University of Alabama
Karri A. Holley, The University of Alabama
Joy Howard, University of Southern Indiana
M. Francyne Huckaby, Texas Christian University
Gabriel Huddleston, Texas Christian University
Petar Jandric, Zagreb University of Applied Sciences
Sonia Janis, University of Georgia
David W. Jardine, University of Calgary
Pamela Bolotin Joseph, University of Washington Bothell
James C. Jupp, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Joyce E. King, Georgia State University
Mari Koerner, Arizona State University
Pamela J. Konkol, Concordia University Chicago
Karen A. Krasny, York University
Craig Kridel, University of South Carolina
Robert Lake, Georgia Southern University
Jodi Latremouille, University of Calgary
John Chi-Kin Lee, The Education University of Hong Kong
Nancy Lesko, Teachers College, Columbia University
Angel M. Y. Lin, Simon Fraser University
Jason Michael Lukasik, Augsburg University
Evan Marquise Taylor, Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis
Cameron McCarthy, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Peter McLaren, Chapman University
Erica Meiners, Northeastern Illinois University
Souad Merah, International Islamic University Malaysia
John P. Miller, The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto
Janet L. Miller, Teachers College, Columbia University
Seungho Moon, Loyola University Chicago
Marla Morris, Georgia Southern University
David Morris, St. Mary's College of Maryland
D. G. Mulcahy, Central Connecticut State University
Mary Newbery, Quinnipiac University
Taylor A. Norman, Georgia Southern University
Isabel Nuñez, Purdue University Fort Wayne
Fikile Nxumalo, The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto
Clare O'Farrell, Queensland University of Technology
D. Joe Ohlinger, Purdue University Fort Wayne
Michael P. O'Malley, Texas State University
Auli Arvola Orlander, Stockholm University
João M. Paraskeva, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Michelle Parker-Katz, University of Illinois at Chicago
Joseph Passi, Benito Juarez Community Academy High School
JoAnn Phillion, Purdue University
Edward Podsiadlik III, University of Illinois at Chicago
Thomas S. Poetter, Miami University
Megan Pozzi, Queensland University of Technology
Madhu Suri Prakash, The Pennsylvania State University
Molly Quinn, Louisiana State University
Tahraoui Ramdane, International Islamic University Malaysia
Aria Razfar, University of Illinois at Chicago
Peter C. Renn, Seattle Pacific University
Ganiva Reyes, Miami University
Alexandra J. Reyes, Georgia Southern University
William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University
Rachel Rhoades, The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto
Stephen M. Ritchie, Murdoch University, Emeritus Professor
Patrick Roberts, Northern Illinois University
Sophia Rodriguez, University of Maryland at College Park
E. Wayne Ross, University of British Columbia
Sabrina N. Ross, Georgia Southern University
John Rury, The University of Kansas
Kenneth J. Saltman, University of Illinois at Chicago
Jennifer A. Sandlin, Arizona State University
Theodore Savich, Indiana University Bloomington
Candace Schlein, University of Missouri - Kansas City
Jennifer L. Schneider, Kent State University
Brian D. Schultz, Miami University
Namrata Sharma, State University of New York
Suniti Sharma, Saint Joseph's University
Valerie Shirley, University of Arizona
Edmund C. Short, The Pennsylvania State University and University of Central Florida
Jacqueline Simmons, Teachers College, Columbia University
Patrick Slattery, Texas A&M University
Debbie Sonu, City University of New York
Crain Soudien, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, and University of Cape Town
Hannah Spector, Penn State Harrisburg
Dana L. Stuchul, The Pennsylvania State University
Ronald Swartz, Oakland University
Lesley Tait, University of Calgary
Daniel Tanner, Rutgers University
Wade Tillett, University of Wisconsin Whitewater
Valerie Triggs, University of Regina
Susan Twombly, The University of Kansas
Jamie Uva, Teachers College, Columbia University
Paola Valero, Stockholm University
Kelly P. Vaughan, Purdue University Northwest
Hongyu Wang, Oklahoma State University
John A. Weaver, Georgia Southern University
Rupert Wegerif, University of Cambridge
Joel Westheimer, University of Ottawa
Craig Willey, Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis
Hye Ryung Won, Florida State University
Boni Wozolek, Penn State University, Abington College
Paul M. Wright, Northern Illinois University
Shijing Xu, University of Windsor
Min Yu, Wayne State University
