Rosetta Marantz Cohen

Professor

Director: Smithsonian Program

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:

Books
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.

Cohen, R.M. (1982) Domestic Scenes: Collected Poems. Boulder, CO: Riverstone.

Articles and Reviews
Cohen, R.M. (2011) “Subject Love” in Burned in Reflections on Maintaining the Fire to Teach. Teachers College Press: New York.

Cohen, R.M. (2010)  “What it Takes to Stick it Out,” in Teachers and Teaching: International Perspective on Veteran Teachers,  London: Routledge,

Cohen, R.M. (2009) “What it Takes to Stick it Out,” in Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice Vol. 15, 4, 471-488.

Cohen, R.M. (Fall, 2008) Kahn Chronicle. “Kahn, John Dewey and Me.” Director’s essay.

Cohen, R.M. (2009) Fact, Construction and Interpretation: Photographs by Sandra Matthews, Chester Michalik, and Stan Sherer. Kahn Institute publication. Introductory essay.

Cohen, R.M. “Une Vie Exceptionelle”, in Risk, Courage and Women: Contemporary Voices in Prose and Poetry, 2007, (editors) Karen Waldron, Laura Labatt, Janice Brazil (University of North Texas Press).

Cohen, R.M. “Teacher Education with an Attitude” by Patrick Finn, in Teachers College Record, August, 2007.

Cohen, R.M. “It’s All About the Teacher: Reallocating Resources Where They Make A Difference,” Perspectives, November 2006, 14-16, Massachusetts Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

Rosetta Marantz Cohen

Susan Etheredge

Sue J. M. Freeman

Janice Gatty

Sam Intrator

Alan L. Marvelli

Lucy Mule

Al Rudnitsky

Cathy Topal

Carole Learned-Miller