Faculty Vita

Barbara Korth, Ph.D.

Academic Degrees

Professional Experience

Faculty load

Other Administrative Responsibilities

Faculty Teaching

Selected Publications

(2001) "Understanding the Complexities of Success in the Making of A New Setting: Case Study of the University of Houston Charter School of Technology." In L. Brouillette, Charter and Magnet Schools: Developmental Guidelines for School Leaders, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

(2001) "Reforming Educational Practice Against The Boundaries of (Re)iteration: A Critical Ethnography of the Hidden Curriculum of a Constructivist Charter School." In G. Walford and P.F. Carspecken, Critical Ethnographies in Education. JAI Press.

(2002) "Critical Qualitative Research as Consciousness-Raising: The Dialogic Texts of Researcher/Researchee Interactions." Qualitative Inquiry 8(3). 2002.

Book Review. "The Stories Within: Clandinin and Connelly's Narrative Inquiry. Experience and Story in Qualitative Research. In "The Journal of Curriculum Studies." 2002.

Essay Book Review. "A Dangerously Modern Reading of Cultural History and Education: Critical Essays on Knowledge and Schooling. In "The Journal of Curriculum Studies." In press.

Funded Projects

College of Education Faculty Research Opportunity Award. "A Study of Cyber Culture in the Case of Educational Chat: Sociological and Methodological Issues." (Fall, 1999.) $ 6,000.00

Educational Connections. Stages Theatre, Houston TX. (Funded through Early Stages by MET Life.) 2000. $350,000.00

Conference Presentations

"Care as Critique: Conscientization in Subtle Classroom Culture." Paper accepted for presentation at the Oxford Educational Ethnography Conference. Oxford UK, September 2002.

"Emergent Deal-Typical Analysis (A Methodological Innovation): Locating Gendered Hidden Curriculum in the Subjectivities of Young Children." Paper presented at a symposium at the American Educational Research Association's National Conference. New Orleans, April 2002.

"Using Emergent Ideal-Typical Analysis: The Problems and Possibilities for Methdological Innovation in a Study of Gendered Subjectivities Among Elementary School Children." Paper presented at the Oxford Educational Ethnography Conference. Oxford UK, September 2001.

"As Boys and Girls: Using Emergent Ideal-Typical Analysis in Critical Feminist Ethnography to Reconstruct Gendered Subjectivities Among Elementary School Children." Paper accepted for presentation at the European Conference on Educational Research. Lille, France, September 2001.

"The Critical Potential of Care for Locating Inequalities and Distortions in Classroom Culture: An Example." Paper presented at a symposium at the American Educational Research Association's National Conference. Seattle, April 2001.

"Reforming Educational Practice Against The Boundaries of (Re)iteration: A Critical Ethnography of the Hidden Curriculum of a Constructivist Charter School." Paper presented at the Oxford Educational Ethnography Conference, Oxford, UK, September, 2000.

"Ungendering the Care/Justice Dichotomy: A Critical Reconstruction of Naturalistically Occurring Acts of Care and Its Relevance to Feminist and Methodological Theory." Paper presented at the Journal for Curriculum Theorizing Conference (National Conference): Bergamo Conference Center, Dayton, Ohio, October 27 - 31, 1999.

Research Areas

Primary Investigator. A Study of Cyber Culture in the Case of Educational Chat: Sociological and Methodological Issues." 2000.

Researcher. Evaluation Study of the University of Houston's Charter School of Technology. (1997 - 2000).

Data Analyst and Report Writer, Houston Institute of Cultural Studies. Evaluation Study of the University of Houston's Charter School of Technology (1997, 1998)

Researcher. Dissertation Study. "A Reformulation of Care as a Pragmatic Concept: A Qualitative Study of an Adult friendship Group" (1998)

Research Assistant. Qualitative classroom data collection for Dr. Phil Carspecken (1996)

Research team, University of Houston PUMA Program (1996 to 1998)

External Evaluator. Evaluation Study of the Center for Professional Development and Technology at the University of Houston-Victoria (1996)

Co-Evaluator with Dr. Phil Carspecken. Evaluation of the University of Houston's BRIDGE Program (1995, 1994)

Honors/Awards

Winner Doctoral-Level Paper Competition, Southwest Social Science Association, 1996. "The Pragmatic Analysis of Care: A Critical Qualitative Study of an Adult Friendship Group"

Graduate Education Scholarship, University of Houston, College of Education Alumni Association, 1994.

Recognized Scholar, United States Scholastic Achievement Academy, 1994 Sister Florence Graduate Special Education Scholarship, 1985, 1986.