Alan R. Sadovnik

Telephone:(973) 353-1216
FAX: (973) 353-1622

Office: 155 Conklin Hall
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Education

Ph.D. New York University, Sociology, 1983

Research Interests

1. Sociology of education
2. Urban education
3. International educational reform
4. Social stratification and education
5. Higher education reform
6. Educational policy
7. History of education

Grants or Honors

New Jersey Deparment of Education Grant, 2001 ($225,000, funded)- New Jersey Takeover of Jersey City, Paterson and Newark Schools and the Return to Local Control. (with Paul Tractenberg, Marc Holzer and Gerry Miller)
Spencer Foundation Small Grants Award, 1995 (12,000, funded)- The Transition to Coeducation at Wheaton College (MA).

Graduate Internship Programs (more than $750,000 in student funding) Adelphi University, 1987-2000
American Educational Studies Association Critics Choice Award for Schools of Tomorrow, 2000
American Educational Studies Association Critics Choice Award for Knowledge and Pedagogy, 1995
Willard Waller Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Sociology of Education, from the American Sociological Association's Sociology of Education Section, 1993

Recent Publications

Books:

A. R. Sadovnik and Semel, S.F. (ed). (2002) Founding Mothers and Others: Women Educational Leaders During the Progressive Era. Palgrave @'St. Martin's Press. [edited book]

Sadovnik, A.R.; Cookson, Jr., P.W. and Semel, S.F. (2001). Exploring Education: An Introduction to the Foundations of Education (Second Edition) Allyn and Bacon. [textbook]

Semel, S.F. and Sadovnik, A.R. (1999). "Schools of Tomorrow," Schools of Today: What Happened to Progressive Education Peter Lang Publishers. [edited book]

Levinson, D; Cookson, Jr., P.W. and Sadovnik, A.R. (2001). Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Education. Routledge/Falmer. [edited book]

Borman, K; Cookson, Jr, P.W.; Sadovnik, A.R. and Spade, J. (1996). Implementing Educational Reform: Sociological Perspectives on Educational Policy. Ablex Publishing Corporation. [edited book]

Sadovnik, A.R. (1995). Knowledge and Pedagogy: The Sociology of Basil Bernstein. Ablex Publishing Corporation. [edited book]

Sadovnik, A.R. (1994). Equity and Excellence in Higher Education: The Decline of a Liberal Education Reform. Peter Lang Publishers. [book]

Sadovnik, A.R.; Cookson, Jr., P.W. and Semel, S.F. (1994). Exploring Education: An Introduction to the Foundations of Education. Allyn and Bacon. [textbook]

Cookson, Jr., P.W.; Sadovnik, A.R. and Semel, S.F. (1992). International Handbook of Educational Reform. Greenwood Press. [edited book]

Sadovnik, A.R., Persell, C.H.; Baumann, E. and Mitchell, Jr, R. (1987) Exploring Society: Selected Readings in Sociology. Harper and Row. [edited book]

Articles and Book Chapters

Sadovnik, A.R. (2001). Code Theory. In the Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Education. Edited by David Levinson, Alan R. Sadovnik, and Peter W. Cookson, Jr. Falmer. [invited book chapter].

Sadovnik, A.R. (2001). Postmodernism and the Sociology of Education. In the Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Education. Edited by David Levinson, Alan R. Sadovnik, and Peter W. Cookson, Jr. Falmer. [invited book chapter].

Semel, S.F.; Cookson, Jr., P.W.; Levinson, D.L. and Sadovnik, A.R. (2001). Educational Reform in the United States. In the Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Education. Edited by David Levinson, Alan R. Sadovnik, and Peter W. Cookson, Jr. Falmer. [invited book chapter].

Sadovnik, A.R. (2001). Theories in the Sociology of Education. PP. 15-34 in Schools and Society: A Sociological Approach to Education. edited by J. Ballantine and J. Spade, Wadsworth.

Sadovnik, A.R. and Semel, S.F. (1998). Durkheim, Dewey and Progressive Education: The Tensions Between Invidualism and Community. In Durkheim on Education, edited by W. Pickering and G. Walford. Routledge. [invited book chapter].

Semel, S.F. and Sadovnik, A.R. (1995). Lessons from the Past: Invidualism and Community in Three Progressive Schools. Peabody Journal of Education. 70(4), Summer 1995: 56-85. [refereed journal]

Sadovnik, A.R. (1995). Postmodernism and the Sociology of Education: Closing the Gap Between Theory, Research and Practice. Pp. 309-326 in Continuity and Contradiction: The Futures of the Sociology of Education edited by William Pink and George Noblit, Hampton Press. [book chapter]

Sadovnik, A.R. (1991b). Basil Bernstein's Theory of Pedagogic Practice: A Structuralist Approach. Sociology of Education (special issue on curriculum), Volume 64, Number 1: 48-63. [refereed journal article]