Welcome! Why hopelessly
academic? Well, the shoe fits - that's all. I am an
associate
professor in the College of Education at the
University of New Mexico. I came to UNM in 1990, after completing doctoral work in
anthropology of education and educational psychology at the University of Minnesota. As
an
undergraduate, I majored in psychology at the University of
California, Berkeley. I am
"hopelessly academic" because I
love the world of ideas, books, the arts, and lively conversations about
fundamentally important social issues. I am hopeful that the work of people who
love ideas (academics, teachers, counselors) can help make the world a better
place. When I am not busy with research and
teaching responsibilities, I like to read, garden, hike, and play with my dog
Athena
(not to be confused with the Greek
goddess of war and wisdom)
My research
interests and activities focus on the social study of education and human
development. I am especially interested in contextual
human development - an approach that emphasizes the social and cultural nature
of human development through the lifespan. My research examines how
knowledge is developed and
distributed within professional communities. One aspect of this problem
has to do with how new media, advanced information technologies and institutional
change are
transforming the nature of work in higher education and other fields of
practice. Another aspect focuses on professional
socialization - how different
fields (education, medicine, law,
and engineering) transmit core competencies (ways of
thinking and specific practices) to novices. I am also a qualitative researcher with a longstanding interest in studying visual media (children's drawings, youth magazine advertisements, lifenets).
My brief vita is available here: Vita PDF.
Armstrong, J. (forthcoming). The political economy of academic writing practices. Journal of Thought.
deMarrais, K., Armstrong, J., and Preissle, J. (forthcoming). Anthropology and Education. In, Steve Tozer, et al (editors), Handbook of Research on Social Foundations of Education. New York: Routledge.
Armstrong, J. (forthcoming). Learning communities of surgeons in mid-career transformation. In McKee, A. and Eraut, M. (editors). Professional Formation and Transformation over the Lifespan: Innovation and Change. Berlin & New York: Springer.
Armstrong, J. (2009). Organizations for teacher educators. In, Provenzo Jr., E.F, & Renaud, J. (eds.). The Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education, Volume 2 (pp. 533-534). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
A brief history of the Society of Professors of
Education. Professing Education, 4(2), 2005. [available
online]
A conversation with Douglas J. Simpson.
Professing Education, 4(2), 2005. [available
online] (co-authored with Doug Simpson)
Review of The Trouble with Community: Anthropological
reflections on Movement, Identity and Collectivity." (Vered Amit and Nigel Rapport,
2002) cited in Anthropology and Education Quarterly, March, 2004.
[available
online]
Universities and the problem of miseducation.
Professing Education, 2(1), 2003.[available
online] -- or --
[download
pdf] Knowledge
transmission and professional community in post-secondary education: An
anthropological view. Educational Foundations, 15(3) Summer,
2001.
Studying up in educational anthropology, In Kathleen
Bennett deMarrais, Editor (1998). Inside Stories: Qualitative Research
Reflections. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
How
Jamaican children view tourists and tourism, Annals of Tourism
Research, November, 1995.
Children's drawings in educational
research and evaluation, Visual Arts Research, Spring, 1994.
I
belong to a number of professional associations, including the American
Educational Research Association (AERA) [Division I -
Education in
the Professions, American Anthropological
Association (AAA), the American Educational Studies Association(AESA), and the
Council on Anthropology and Education (CAE).
I am the President of the Council for Social Foundations of Education (CSFE) and the Webmaster for the Society
of Professors of Education (SPE). I am on the program committee for the Society of Cross Cultural Research (SCCR), which will be meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, February, 2010. Visit the Mind's Eye Project page for links to professional associations and journals of interest to
faculty and graduate students. If you would
like help in locating a professional association in your own field of
specialization, visit the Professional
Associations in Education Directory. I strongly encourage students to
join professional associations. Most organizations welcome student
members - so don't delay. If you have not already done so, join one
today! My teaching responsibilities are varied. I teach courses
in qualitative research methods; human
growth and development; multicultural perspectives in counselor education; aging
and education, and science technology studies.
Links to syllabi for several of my courses appear below. Alternatively,
go to my Course Information page.
Qualitative Research in
Education Home Page Advanced Seminar in
Educational Psychology: Qualitative Research in the Psychological Sciences (EDPY 645 - Fall 2009)
Human Growth and
Development Course Home Page (EDPY 303, 503 and 613)
Psychological
Development of Women Home Page (EDPY 586, anticipated Spring 2010)
Resources for Academic Research and
Writing
(Coping with Academic Life!) The Mind's Eye Project
(Internet resources for faculty and graduate students) Science, Technology and
Culture Home Page Created by Jan Armstrong, January
1, 1996.
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