Contemporary Perspectives on Capital in Educational Contexts

Publisher Marketing: The edited volume, Contemporary Perspectives on Capital in Educational Contexts, is timely in its unique and appropriate analyses of the prevailing internal and external dynamics of capital as indicative of the type of currency within institutional structures or the currency among individual stakeholders of education. The intersection of capital and currency emerges similarly and differently within the American compulsory-based system of K-12 and the choice-based system of higher education. Contributor Bio:  Bartee, Rosusan D RoSusan D. Bartee is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi. Dr. Bartee's research interests are K-12 education leadership, organizational culture and social contexts of schools, and university-school partnerships. She teaches graduate courses in educational leadership, research methods, and cultural contexts of education. Dr. Bartee previously served as the Associated Director at the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) in Washington, DC for the Reading First Teacher Education Network (RFTEN), a $4.5 million dollar federal grant focused on restructuring teacher education programs using evidence-based research. Dr. Bartee received her Ph. D. in educational policy studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, her M. A. in liberal studies from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and a B. A. in English from Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi. Contributor Bio:  Brown II, M Christopher M. Christopher Brown II is Professor and Dean of the College of Education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He previously served as Vice President and Administration at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, Director of Social Justice and Professional Development for the American Educational Research Association (AERA), as well as Executive Director and Chief Research Scientist of the Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute of the United Negro College Fund.