Grossberg Kunzman Odom Orenstein Plucker

The fellows are: Michael Grossberg, professor of history and law; Robert Kunzman, School of Education; Samuel Odom, School of Education; Aviva Orenstein, School of Law; Jonathan Plucker, School of Education; and Sandra Shapshay, Department of Philosophy.

The fellows will be studying such topics as: using children in scientific research, advertising, entertainment, etc.; childhood development and self-determination; children and the law; the idea of children’s rights; the basis and limits of parental authority in shaping children’s lives; children’s welfare in medical care, employment, family life and adoption; children, education and “the politics of virtue”; familial, social and institutional responsibilities to children who are, for example, considered “normal,” “special,” “gifted” or “challenged.”

Participants will meet for discussion 10 times over the academic year in a seminar directed by Poynter director Rich Miller.

Grossberg is editor of the American Historical Review. His research focuses on the relationship between law and society in American history, particularly the intersection of law and the family. He is currently working on a history of child protection in the United States to be published by Harvard University Press and is co-editing The Cambridge History of Law in the United States.

Kunzman’s research focuses on moral and civic education, and he teaches courses in secondary education foundations and methods, as well as graduate courses in curriculum studies. His recent scholarship has appeared in the Journal of Moral Education and Philosophy of Education 2003. He is currently working on a book-length manuscript Grappling with the Good: Talking about Religion and Morality in Public Schools.

• Odom is Otting Professor of special education with scholarly interests in research methodology and evidence-based practice in special education, social relationships of children with disabilities, inclusion of children with disabilities in early education settings, effective treatments for children with autism, programs that prepare preschool children for success in the public schools, and international approaches to early intervention. He has co-edited two books on early intervention: Widening the Circle: Including Preschool Children with Disabilities in Preschool Programs and Early Intervention Practices around the World.

•Orenstein has served as a guardian ad litem for abused and neglected children. Her scholarship concerns the intersection of evidence, law and American culture. In 2004, she traveled to Beijing and Taiwan, where she lectured about the American system of legal education, pre-trial discovery, children’s rights and the O.J. Simpson case.

• Plucker directs the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy (formerly the Indiana Education Policy Center). His research interests include educational policy, creativity and intelligence, and giftedness and talent development; he has written over 80 publications on these topics. He is especially interested in P-16 issues and improving creativity assessment and enhancement.

• Shapshay teaches ethics and bioethics. She has published an article against human reproductive cloning from an ethical-aesthetic standpoint and is currently working on the issue of justice in the allocation of health-care resources. As a Poynter Faculty Fellow, she will be refining an argument in favor of a moral claim for children to a decent minimum of health care in the U.S. Her argument draws a parallel between health care and an already recognized constitutional right to free and public access to education for children with disabilities.

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