Alexander M. Sidorkin

ALEXANDER “SASHA” M.SIDORKIN

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EXPERIENCE

07/2013-presentDean, Graduate School of Education, and Director, the Center for the Study of Innovations in Education, Institute of Education, HSE University Russia

07/2010-06/2013Dean, Feinstein School of Education and Human Development, Rhode Island College

07/2006-06/2010Director, School of Teacher Education, University of Northern Colorado

08/1999-06/2006Division Chair, Educational Foundations and Inquiry, Bowling Green State University

09/1996-08/1999Research Associate, University of Washington

09/1997-09/1999Postdoctoral fellow, National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation

08/1985-08/1991Assistant Professor, Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Russia

09/1983-05/1990Teacher of History, Social Studies, Psychology and Public Speaking,Board member. Novosibirsk Public Schools, Novosibirsk; Karakovsky Laboratory School,Moscow, Russia

LEADERSHIP IN SERVICE

2014-presentEditor, Russian Education and Society, Taylor and Francis

2014-presentMember of the Jury, The National Competition of School Principals, Russia

2012-2013Member, Education and Arts Committee established by Mayor-Elect of Central Falls, RI

2012-2013Member, Providence Afterschool Alliance Board of Directors

2011-2013Editor, Syllabus, a peer-refereed journal of college syllabi

2010-2013Member, Ready to Learn Providence Governing Board

2005-2008Executive Director, The Philosophy of Education Society

2004-2006Senator, Faculty Senate, Bowling Green State University

2001-2004Chair, School of Leadership and Policy Studies Curriculum Committee

2003-2004President,Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society

2002-2003College Representative, The University Undergraduate Council

EDUCATION

1996Ph.D. in Education, University of Washington

1992M.A. in Peace studies, University of Notre Dame

1991Ph.D. in Education (Кандидатпедагогическихнаук) Research Institute for Theory and History of Education, Moscow, Russia

1985Specialist(Диплом), double major Teacher of History/Government and Youth Development, Novosibirsk State Teachers University, Novosibirsk, Russia

AWARDS

2014Institute of Education, The Pioneers Award, HSE University Russia

2011Inspiring Minds, Innovation in EducationAward, RI

2009University of Northern Colorado,Excellence in Academic LeadershipAward

2006BGSU,Undergraduate Student Government’s Faculty ExcellenceAward

1997National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation,Postdoctoral Fellowship

1993-1995NAFSA/Association of International Educators Scholarship

1991-1992Institute for International Peace Studies,International Scholarship

1991“Znanie” National Society National Award for the Best Popular Book of the Year

1987The Institute for Educational Research, Moscow, Junior Scholar of the Year Award

SELECTED GRANTS

  1. 2014 Р 3,000,000. Modules in the Research Master’s Program in Education, Federal sub-grant by the RussianMinistry of Education and Science.
  2. 2012$50,000. Common Core Standards and College Preparedness in Rhode Island, Rhode Island Office of Higher Education
  3. 2012$3,000. Linkage Grant, The Eurasia Foundation
  4. 2007$160,000. Reading in the Social Studies Project: Teaching Reading in Civics, Economics, Geography and History grant
  5. 2005$36,000. Civics Mosaic, Regional coordinator for the State of Ohio and Toledo region.
  6. 2005$4,800. Improving Literacy throughService Learning, Partnerships for Community Actions Grant
  7. 2004$37,000. Civics Mosaic, Civic Education Exchange Program Regional Coordinator.
  8. 2002$25,000. Ohio Learning Network Implementation Grant,
  9. 2002$12,000. Ohio Learning Network Readiness Grant
  10. 2002$7,000. Undoing the Digital Divide: Infusing Technology in a Social Foundations of Education Course, PICT Project Grant
  11. 2001$6,000. Manifesto of Relational Pedagogy, National Academy of Education Collaborative Project Grant
  12. 2001$14,190. Pedagogy of Relation: Mutuality, Authority, And Polyphony, Spencer Foundation Small Research Grant
  13. 2001$10,00. Using Web Technology to Overcome Fragmentation of a Multi-Sectioned Course, Bowling Green State University Tech Grant
  14. 1999$6,000. Progressive Prehistory of Soviet Education,National Academy of Education Collaborative Project Grant
  15. 1997$40,000. Monologism in Education, National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship

BOOKS

  1. Labor of Learning: Market and the Next Generation of Educational Reform.Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2009.
  2. Learning Relations: Impure Education, Deschooled Schools, and Dialogue with Evil.New York: Peter Lang, 2002.
  3. Beyond Discourse: Education, the Self and Dialogue.Buffalo: SUNY Press, 1999.
  4. Парад предрассудков (Parade of Prejudices and Superstitions). Moscow: Znanie, 1992.
  5. Пособие для начинающих Робеспьеров (A Beginning Robespierre's Guide). Moscow: Znanie, 1990.

EDITED BOOKS

  1. Jackson F.Жизнь в классе [Life in Classrooms] (trans. from English, ed. A.M.Sidorkin), М. : Publishing house of the HSE, 2016.
  2. No Education Without Relation (co-edited with Charles Bingham).New York: Peter Lang, 2004.
  3. Школа воспитания: 825-й маршрут [School of character: The Route # 825] (Co-edited with V.A. Karakovsky, D.B.Grigoriev, and Ye.I. Sokolova). Moscow: The Pedagogical Society of Russia, 2004.
  4. Rhymes, Ritual, and Recipes: ToledoEast Side Stories as Told by the Mind Weavers (co-edited with Patricia Bennett, Janet Murphy, and Carey Smith). Toledo, OH: Mind Weavers, 2003.

DISSERTATIONS AND MONOGRAPHS

  1. An Ontological Understanding of Dialogue in Education. Ph.D. diss., University of Washington, 1996.
  2. Рaзвитие воспитательной системы школы как закономерный процесс [School as a developing system: Driving Forces and Contradictions] [Dissertation for the Education Research degree]. Moscow: Research Institute for Theory and History of Education, 1990.
  3. Методология системного подхода в педагогике [Methodology of the Systems Approach in Educational Theory], Monograph,Moscow: Research Institute for Theory and History of Education, 1989.

BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. "On the theoretical limits of education", in Making a Difference in Theory The theory question in education and the education question in theory. L., NY : Routledge, 2014.
  2. "On the Essence of Education," in Making Sense of Education: Fifteen Contemporary Educational Theorists in their own Words, Gert J.J. Biesta, Editor, Springer, 2012.
  3. "The Gift and Dialogue", inDialogiske perspektiver: når vi er forskjellige,Karin Ellingsen Aune og Ellen Saur, Eds., Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 2007.
  4. “Carnival and Dialogue: Opening New Conversations,” inDialogue as a Means of Collective Communication, Patrick M. Jenlink and Bela H. Banathy, Eds, Plenum US, 2004.
  5. “Doing and Talking: Two Sides of School,” Dialogue as a Means of Collective Communication, Patrick M. Jenlink and Bela H. Banathy, Editors, Plenum US, 2004.
  6. "Relations Are Rational: Toward An Economic Anthropology Of Schooling," in No Education Without Relation, Charles Bingham and Alexander Sidorkin, Editors, New York: Peter Lang, 2004.
  7. "A Case for a Pedagogy of Relation," in No Education Without Relation, Charles Bingham and Alexander Sidorkin, Editors, New York: Peter Lang, 2004.
  8. Управление воспитательной системой школы: Проблемы и решения [Managing A Building-wide Educational System: Issues and Solutions] (Co-author, V.A.Karakovskii, L.I.Novikova, N.L.Selivanova, Ye.I. Sokolova, Editors). Moscow: Pedagogicheskoye obshchestvo Rossii, 1999.
  9. “Воспитательные системы сегодня” [Educational systems today] (With L.K.Balyasnaya, V.A.Karakovskii, L.A.Pikova, T.V.Tsyrlina), inТеория и практика воспитательных систем [Educational Systems’ Theory and Practice], Moscow: Institute for Educational Theory and Comparative Education, 1993. Volume I, 55-106.

PEER-REFEREED PAPERS

  1. “Campbell’s Law and the Ethics of Immensurability,” Studies in Philosophy and Education, 34/4, 2015
  2. “Idolaters, Iconoclasts, and Iconophiles: The Productive Ideal and Philosophy of Education,” Philosophy of Education Archive, 2014: 302-310.
  3. "Профессиональная подготовка учителей в США:уроки для России" [TeachertrainingintheUS: LessonsforRussia], Вопросы Образования 1, 2013.
  4. “The Russian Method,”Other Education 1/1, 2012: 61-78.
  5. “Mad hatters, jackbooted managers, and the massification of higher education,” Educational Theory62/4, 2012: 487-500.
  6. “Are schools improvable? A rumination on positionality,” Philosophy of Education Archive, Urbana, Illinois: Philosophy of Education Society, 2010, 278-285.
  7. "John Dewey: A case of educational utopianism," Philosophy of Education Archive, Urbana, Illinois: Philosophy of Education Society, 2009:191-199.
  8. “What do we want them to want to do? Against intrinsic motivation,” Proceedings of the 11th Biennial Conference Education and Multicultural Education, August 9-12, 2008, Kyoto University:337-346.
  9. "Is Schooling a Consumer Good?: A Case Against School Choice, But Not the One You Had in Mind," in Barbara Stengel, Ed. Philosophy of Education Archive,Urbana, IL: Philosophy of Education Society, 2007: 75-83.
  10. “Human Capital and Labor of Learning: A Case of Mistaken Identity,” Educational Theory, 57/2, 2007, 159-170.
  11. "The New Slavery, or Chrysalization of Class", Philosophy of Education Archive, Urbana, Illinois: Philosophy of Education Society, 2006, 417-425.
  12. "The student Error," Philosophy of EducationArchive. Urbana, Illinois: Philosophy of Education Society, 2005, 137-145.
  13. "Chayanov’s Rule and School Reform," Philosophical Studies in Education 36,2005, 67-76.
  14. “In the Event of Learning,” Educational Theory54/3, 2004, 251-62.
  15. "Panopticon of the Second Kind: Self-Reforming During the Era of Excellence," Journal of Thought, Summer 2004, 17-33.
  16. “The unlikely faces of professional development in urban schools: Preparing at-risk students and colleges for each other,” (with John Fischer, Lynne Hamer, Lucy Long, Julie McArthur, Art Samel, and Judith Zimmerman) Educational Horizons 83/3, Spring 2004, 203-212.
  17. “Student Labor and Evolution of Education,” World Futures 60/3, 2004, 183-194.
  18. “Lyotard and Bakhtin: Engaged Diversity in Education,” The Interchange33/1, 2002, 85-97.
  19. “Aesthetics and the Paradox of Educational Relation,” (with Charles Bingham) Journal of Philosophy of Education35, Issue 1, February 2001, 21-30.
  20. “Labor of Learning,” Educational Theory 51/1, Winter 2001, 91-108.
  21. “Authoritarianism and Democracy in Soviet Schools: A Tale of John Dewey’s Ideas and the Woman Who Brought down the Berlin Wall,” East/West Education 19, 1998-2000, 121-130.
  22. “Toward a Pedagogy of Relation,” Philosophical Studies in Education32, 2000, 9-14.
  23. “Dialogue with Evil,” Journal of Thought 34/3, Fall 1999, 9-19.
  24. “The Fine Art of Sitting on Two Stools: Multicultural Education Between Postmodernism and Critical Theory,” Studies on Philosophy and Education 18/3, 1999,143-155.
  25. “Redefinition of Plurality: On the Value of Double Messages,” Education and Society 16/1, 1998, 99-104.
  26. “Authenticity-Dialogicality-Recognition: An Improbable Journey,” Philosophical Studies in Education, 1997, 83-90.
  27. “Carnival and Third Places: Pedagogies of Neither Care, Nor Justice,“ Educational Theory 47/2, Spring 1997, 229-238.
  28. “The Pedagogy of the Interhuman,” Philosophy of EducationArchive. Urbana, Illinois: Philosophy of Education Society, 1995, 412-419.

BOOK REVIEWS

  1. “Review of Journey into Dialogic Pedagogy (Eugene Matusov),” Power and Education 2/1, 2010: 109-111.
  2. “Schools of Recognition: Identity Politics and Classroom Practices,” Review of Charles Bingham, Schools of Recognition. Educational Studies 34/1, Spring 2003: 102-105.
  3. "Democracy,education,and antipodes." Review of Creating and Managing the Democratic School by J.Chapman, I.Froumin, and D.Aspin, Eds., East-West Education, Volume 17, Spring and Fall 1996, Numbers 1 and 2: 135-38.

EDITOR REVIEWEDPAPERS

  1. “Authentic Improvement: A Case for Flexible Faculty Evaluation Policies”, Higher Education in Russia and Beyond,1/7, 2016: 6-7.
  2. “The Problem of the Invisible in Education”, Journal of Siberian Federal University. Series: Humanities & Social Sciences,Numbers 11, 2015: 2632-2537.
  3. "University Ratings: Imperfect but Indispensable," Higher Education in Russia and Beyond, 04 2015: 8-10.
  4. “ЗачемРоссии «Орлёнок»? [WhydoesRussianeedOrlyonok?],”Ориентир, 2015. № 1(11): 19-22.
  5. «Общественно-педагогическая практика в подготовке учителей [Servicelearninginteacherpreparation]», Психологическая наука и образование. 2014. Т. 19. № 3. С. 74-77
  6. “Социальноевоспитаниевгонкеобразований [Socialeducationintheglobaleducationrace]”, Сибирский педагогический журнал, 2013, Т.2,16-20
  7. “The institution and the virtue” Philosophy of EducationArchive, 2012: 439-441.
  8. “Syllabus, the Genre,” editorial at Syllabus, 2012/1/1.
  9. “Doomed to Act: Why Postmodern Education May Be Impossible, Not Just (Im)possible,” Philosophy of Education Archive, 2011, 280-282.
  10. “On the Essence of Education” Studies in Philosophy and Education 30/5, 2011: 521-527.
  11. "Response to Frank Margonis' Review of Labor of Learning: Market and the Next Generation of Educational Reform," Studies in Philosophy and Education 29/6, 2010: 577-578.
  12. “Феномен Листпеда с точки зрения дискретности воспитания [The Listped phenomenon as a case of discrete education],”Магия Листпеда: Педагогические принципы адаптационного сбора студентов[Listped magic: The educational foundation of theadaptive retreatfor freshmen],N.P. Anijnikeeva, Т.А. Romm eds., Novosibirsk, NSPU Publishing, 2010: 34 - 38.
  13. “Как перевести непереводимое: российская традиция воспитания и перспективы глобализации образования [Translating the untranslatable: The Russian character education tradition and perspectives of globalization],”Воспитание: традиции и перспективы [Traditions and perspectives of character education].Proceedings of the Fifth Siberian Education Seminar, Novosibirsk, Russia, March 17 - 19 2010): Volume 1.Novosibirsk, NSPU Publishing, 2010: 24 - 26.
  14. “Mentorship program essential for new teachers,” Greeley Tribune, April 10, 2008, A8.
  15. "Compliance without paternalism," Philosophy of Education, 2008. Urbana, Illinois: Philosophy of Education Society, 78-80.
  16. “Будущее воспитания и воспитание будущего, [The future of education and education of the future],” Воспитательная работа в школе[Community education in schools], 2008, 3: 24-26.
  17. “Нерыночная экономика школы” [The non-market economy of schooling],Narodnoye Obrazovaniye[People’s Education] 10, 2008: 223-231.
  18. “Spinoza or Spanish?” Straw Poll Contribution, The Philosophers’ Magazine Volume 38, 2007, 10.
  19. “Факультет ненужных вещей: Смысл и основная проблема воспитания.” [Faculty of useless things: Meaning and the core problem of education]. Новые Ценности Образования: Контексты и подтексты образования. [New Educational Values: Contexts and Subtexts of Education] 5-6/29-30, 2006: 43-48.
  20. “Театральность школы” [The theatrality of schooling], Na Putiakh k Novoy Shkole 1, 2004, 3-6.
  21. “Российскаятеориявоспитаниявконтекстемировогообразования” [The Russian character education theory in the global educational context],Живаяпедагогика: Открытость, культура, наука, образование [The Living Pedagogy: Openness, culture, scholarship, education], Moscow: Narodnoye Obrazovanie, 2004, 61-67.
  22. "Педагогическая наука и образовательная практика: Экономическая антропология школы" [Educational research and educational practice: The Economic Anthropology of Schooling], Живая Педагогика: Открытость. Культура. Наука. Образование[Pedagogy, Alive: Openness. Culture. Scholarship. Education], Moscow: Narodnoe Obrazovanie, 2004, 244-247
  23. "Эволюционная теория коллективного воспитания," [An evolutionary theory of the collective education], Na Putiakh k Novoy Shkole 5, 2003, 41-43.
  24. "Cold Calling and the Wonderful World of Relations," Philosophy of Education Archive, 2003. Urbana, Illinois: Philosophy of Education Society, 204-207.
  25. “Школаотношений” [School of Relationship], with Alexei Spirin,Narodnoe obrazovanie1326/3, Spring 2003, 92-97.
  26. “Alas, Poor Hamlet – or Identity Crisis for Dummies,” Philosophy of Education, 1998. Urbana, Illinois: Philosophy of Education Society, 1998, 269-71.
  27. “Квопросуоразвитиипонятиявоспитательнаясистемашколы” [On development of the concept of School-wide Educational System], Klassnyi Rukovoditel. 1997, Volume 2, 23-28.
  28. “The Glass Bead Game,” Philosophy of Education Archive, 1996, 315-7.
  29. “Квопросуоразвитиипонятиявоспитательнаясистемашколы” [Toward development of the educational system concept], Методология, теорияипрактикавоспитательныхсистем: поискпродолжается[Methodology, Theory and Practice of Educational Systems: Inquiry Continued], Moscow: Research Institute for Theory of Education and Pedagogy, 1996, 28-33.
  30. “Диалог в воспитании” [DialogueinEducation]. Народное образование, 1995. Numbers 8-9, 110-114.
  31. “Диалогввоспитании: кпостановкепроблемы” [Dialogue in Education: Framing the Problem], Гуманизацияобразования[Humanization of Education].2/1995, 9-16.
  32. “The Communard Movement in Russia,” East-West Education, Volume 16, Fall 1995, Number 2: 148-59.
  33. “Единство организованности и общинности как условие становления и развития гуманистической воспитательной системы школы” [LinkingOrganizationandCommunityforBuildingaHumanisticSchool]. Воспитательная система массовой школы: проблемы гуманизации [Publicschools: HumanizationIssues].Moscow: Research Institute for Theory and History of Education, 1992, 22-28.
  34. “Процесс развития воспитательной системы школы. Егозакономерности.” [Development of School-wide Educational System: Patterns and Regularities].Воспитательнаясистемаучебногозаведения[Educational System of a Learning Organization]. Moscow: USSR Federal Committee for Public Education, 1992, 14-29.
  35. “Рождение Николаевского научно-практического центра 'Воспитательная система школы.” [Nikolaev”Holistic School” Research-and-Training Center]. Воспитательнаясистемашколы[Holistic School]. Moscow: Pedagogicheskoe Obshchestvo RSFSR, 1991: 27-48.
  36. “Воспитательная Система – Школа Караковского”[Karakovsky'sHolisticSchool]. NarodnoeObrazovanie, 10/1991: 42-48.
  37. “Процесс развития воспитательной системы школы” [EvolutionofaHolisticSchool]SovetskayaPedagogika, 11/1991: 65-69.
  38. Методологический синтез теории и истории педагогики в исследовании воспитательных систем [MethodologicalSynthesisofTheoryandHistoryofEducationinHolisticSchoolResearch]. Воспитательнаясистемашколы: историяисовременность[Holistic School: History and Present Time] Vladimir: P. I. Lebedev-Poliansky Teachers College, 1990, 8-10.
  39. “Воспитательныйпроцессивоспитательнаясистема” [Educational Process and the Holistic School]Методологияиметодысовременныхпедагогическихисследований[Methodology and Methods of Contemporary Educational Research]. Moscow: Academy of Educational Sciences, 1989, 10-12.
  40. “Соотношение объяснения и понимания в период кризиса одной из специальных наук” [Explanation and Understanding in One Social Science’s Crisis]Объяснение и понимание в специальных общественных науках[The Explanation and Understanding in Social Sciences]. Moscow: Institute of Philosophy, 1989, 171-179.
  41. “Общее, особенное и единичное в развитии воспитательной системы школы” [The Universal, the Particular, and the Singular in the Development of a Holistic School]. Воспитательная система учебного заведения как объект педагогического управления[PedagogicalManagementofSchool'sEducationalSystem]. Proceedings of the All-Union Conference, V.1. Riga: Latvian State University, 1989, 15-17.
  42. “Игровой аспект воспитания” [The Play-like Dimension of Education]. Игра в воспитательном процессе [Play in Educational Process]. Novosibirsk: NGPI, 1989, 62-80.
  43. “К вопросу о сущности воспитания: Игровой аспект воспитательного взаимодействия”[On the Essence of Education: Play-like Aspects of the Educational Interaction]. Теоретико-методологичечские проблемы образования в условиях становления системы непрерывного образования[Theoretical and Methodological Educational Issuesinthe Development of a Continuous Education System]. Moscow: Academy of Educational Sciences, 1988, 96-98.
  44. “О сущности педагогических явлений” [On the Essence of Educational Phenomena]. Педагогическая наука в условиях перестройки[Educational Theory and Perestroika]. Moscow: Russian Educational Society, 1988, 65-69.

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