Potential synthesis readers, their interests, and contact info
(includes Regular CCT teaching faculty; Associated CCT faculty not teaching; Part-time Faculty teaching Online & Cont. Ed. CCT courses; Other UMB faculty; Experienced CCT alums
CCT regular teaching faculty
Lawrence Blum
moral education, race studies and multicultural education, workshops on antiracist education to K-12 teachers in a variety of settings
617-287-6532, lawrence.blum@umb.edu
Arthur Millman
critical thinking, applied and professional ethics, philosophy of science
617-287-6538, arthur.millman@umb.edu
Carol Smith
understanding the dynamics of conceptual change both in children and adults, models, analogies, and metaconceptual understanding, impact of schooling on metacognitive development
617-287-6359, carol.smith@umb.edu
Jeremy Szteiter
community-based and adult education, lifelong learning, online learning & collaboration, digital literacy
617-942-3580, Jeremy.Szteiter@umb.edu
Peter Taylor
reflective practice; complexity of ecological or environmental situations; complexity of biosocial development; complexity of the social situations in which the environmental research is undertaken; critical science and environmental education
617-287-7636, peter.taylor@umb.edu
Part-time Faculty teaching Online & Cont. Ed. CCT courses
Allyn Bradford, allynb@aol.com (Dialogue process, group process, teambuilding, and action learning
Suanne Clark, Suzanne.Clark@umb.edu
Wally Clausen, wclausen@comcast.net
Delores Gallo, delores.gallo@umb.edu
Renae Gray, sisrenae@hotmail.com
Nina Greenwald
critical and creative thinking, problem-based learning,innovation and invention, multiple intelligences, and gifted education
617-287-6523, nlgreenwald@Comcast.net
Olen Gunnlaugson, gunnlaugson@hotmail.com
Bob Schoenberg, bobsch3@gmail.com
Luanne Witkowski, Luanne.Witkowski@massart.edu
Associated CCT faculty (not teaching CCT courses currently)
Ted Klein, TKlein3388@aol.com (Moral Education; accessible publications relating abstract concepts to practical concerns)
David Martin, davidrmartindr@aol.com (Metacognition)
Denise Patmon, denise.patmon@umb.edu (Literature, Multiculturalism)
Ben Schwendener, ben@gravityarts.org (Creativity, music)
Brian White, 617-287-6630, brian.white@umb.edu (Biology Education, Educational Software and Multimedia)
Other faculty members willing to serve as readers
(Subject to topic and availability; Provisional list of interests)
Bala Sundaram, 617-287-6055 bala.sundaram@umb.edu (non-linear dynamics, mathematical biology, Scientfic thnking skills)
Arthur Eisenkraft, 617-287-7652 arthur.eisenkraft@umb.edu (Science education)
Peter Kiang, 617-287-7614, peter.kiang@umb.edu (Ethnic studies, Urban education)
Liz Marran, 617-287-5743, Elizabeth.Marran@umb.edu (Art)
Mark Pawlak, 617-287-6557, Mark.Pawlak@umb.edu (Math education, Poetry & publication)
Steve Schwartz, emeritus, steve.schwartz@umb.edu, (Cognitive Psychology, Creative Thinking, Problem Solving, Representation of Information, Math and Science curriculum reform, the uses of technology in education, and the use of metacognitive aids in curriculum development)
Rachel Skvirsky, 617-287-6617, Rachel.Skvirsky@umb.edu (biology in its social context, especially genetics and molecular biology)
Rajini Srikanth, 617-287-5521, Rajini.Srikanth@umb.edu (Literature, globalization)
Rob Stevenson, 617-287-6572, Robert.Stevenson@umb.edu (citizen science; technological change, values & institutions)
Ann Torke, 617-287-5736, amtorke@gmail.com (Art)
Ann Withorn, 617-287-7365, Ann.Withorn@umb.edu (Welfare state, privatization, and social movements)
Experienced CCT alums
TBA