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  Rosetta Marantz Cohen

Professor

Director: Smithsonian Project

Phone: (413) 585-3266

Office: 102 Morgan Hall

Email: rcohen@email.smith.edu

Degrees:
BA Yale University
MFA Columbia University
Med, EdD Teachers College, Columbia University

Research Interests:
School reform, comparative education, the history of American education, John Dewey

Teaching Interests:
History and philosophy of education

Courses:
EDC 100 The American Teacher
EDC 232 The American High and High School Teacher
EDC 222 Philosophy of Education
EDC 236 American Education
EDC 336 John Dewey and His World
EDC 552 Perspectives on American Education
AMS 201 Introduction to American Culture and Society

Representative Publications:

Cohen, R.M. and S. Scheer (2003) Teacher-Centered Schools: Reimagining Educational Reform in the 21st Century. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press.

Cohen, R.M. and S. Scheer (Eds.) (1997) The Work of Teachers in America: A Social History Through Stories. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Cohen, R.M. (1995) Understanding How School Change Really Happens: Reform at Brookville High. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

Cohen, R.M. (1991)A Lifetime of Teaching: Portraits of Five, Veteran High School Teachers. New York: Teachers College Press.

“The Round Hill School” an exhibition at Historic Northampton Museum, November 2005-November 2006.

Cohen, R.M. “Word Problems,” poem in Feminist Studies, Winter, 2005.

Cohen, R.M., “The Philosopher Puts Up a Fence,” poem in the Drexel Online Journal, Spring, 2004.

Cohen, R.M. “The Schools Our Teachers Deserve: A Proposal for Teacher-Centered Reform” Phi Delta Kappan. (March, 2002) 532-537.

 
 
 
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