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Alan Wieder Education 1977 Ph.D. Social Foundations of Education 1973 M.Ed. Social Foundations of Education 1971 B.A. Social Science Administrative positions 2006 (ongoing) Department Chair/Educational Studies University of South Carolina 2003-2005 Program Coordinator University of South Carolina
Teaching positions 2005-May/June Fulbright Senior Specialist University of the Western Cape 2004-present Professor University of South Carolina 2003-present Extraordinary Professor University of the Western Cape 2003 Visiting Professor University of Cape Town 1989-2003 Associate Professor University of South Carolina 1999 Fulbright Scholar University of the Western Cape 1986-1989 Assistant Professor University of South Carolina 1984-1986 Assistant Professor University of Wisconsin/Oshkosh 1983-1984 Visiting Assistant Professor University of New Orleans 1981-1982 Visiting Assistant Professor Tulane University 1979-1981 Instructor Shawnee State College 1977-1979 Visiting Assistant Professor Oklahoma State University 1974-1977 Graduate Assistant Ohio State University The teaching positions listed above include appointments in both social foundations of education and sociology departments. Teaching is at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Presently I am teaching graduate courses in social foundations and qualitative research and am chairing six doctoral committees.
PUBLICATIONS Books
Teacher and Comrade: Richard Dudley and the Fight for Democracy in South Africa (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, forthcoming) Voices From Cape Town Classrooms: Oral Histories of Teachers Who Fought Apartheid (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2003) (Cape Town, University of the Western Cape, 2003) Race and Education: Narrative Essays, Oral Histories, Documentary Photography Immigration, the Public School, and the 20th Century AmericanEthos
Book Chapters “Informed by Apartheid: Mini-Oral Histories of Two Cape Town Teachers,” in Kallaway, Peter. The History of Education Under Apartheid (New York, Cape Town: Peter Lang Publishing/Miller Matthew Longman, 2002) pp. 197-210. “Being Jewish, Teaching Social Foundations, and Studying Race,” in Strangers in the Land. edited by Svi Shapiro (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1999) “South Carolina Unrevised: The Treatment of Race in Current School History Textbooks,” in Annual Editions Multicultural Education, 1997/98. (New York: Dushkin Publishers, 1998) “Trust and Memory: Explorations in Oral History and Biography,” in Educational Biography: Adventures and Explorations in Educational Research. edited by Craig Kridel (New York: Garland, 1998) "Afrocentrisms," in Annual Editions Multicultural Education, 1994/95. "One Who Left and One Who Stayed," in The Teacher's Voice. edited by "Racial Myths and Sterotypes: An Introduction for Human Services." "Robert Coles Reconsidered: A Critique of the Portrayal of Blacks As Culturally Articles “A Mother and Her Daughters: Jewish Teachers and the Fight Against Apartheid,” Teachers College Record. forthcoming.
“South African Teacher Oral Histories: A Primer on Process,” Southern African Review of Education. 2005. “Nonracialism as an Educational and World View: Lessons from South African Teachers,” Cornell Law Review. V.90. I.2. January 2005. pp. 101-111. “South African Teacher Stories: The Past Speaks to the Present and Future,” Perspectives in Education. V. 22. N.4. December 2004. pp. 29-36. “Testimony as Oral History: Lessons from South Africa,” Educational Researcher. V. 33. N. 6. August/September 2004. pp. 23-28. “Education, Radical Politics and Modernity in Southern Africa: The Teaching Life of Ali Fataar,” Southern African Review of Education, 2002 (published 2003), pp. 31-43. (with Aslam Fataar) “Oral History Craftsmanship:Reflections on Writing Cape Town Teacher Stories,” UWC Papers in Education. 2002 (published 2003), pp. 65-70. “White Teachers/White Schools: Oral Histories From the Struggle Against Apartheid,” Multicultural Education. Summer 2003, pp. 26-31. “Teachers Against Apartheid: A Case Study of a White Teacher in a White School,” Southern African Review of Education. V7, 2001(published 2003), pp. 47-52. “Black Teachers and The Struggle Against Bantu Education,” Multicultural Review. September 2002, pp. 42-51. “Wedding Pedagogy and Politics: Oral Histories of Black Women Teachers and the Struggle Against Apartheid,” Race, Ethnicity and Education. July 2002, pp. 133-149. “Teachers/Political Prisoners: Oral Histories From Apartheid South Africa,” Equity and Excellence. December, 2001, pp. 87-94. “They Can’t Take Our Souls: Teachers’ League of South Africa Reflections of Apartheid,” Race Ethnicity and Education. June 2001, pp. 145-166. “white teachers/black schools: stories from apartheid South Africa,” Multicultural Education. Summer 2001, pp. 14-23. “A Principal’s Perspective of School Integration: The First School to Integrate in Cape Town, South Africa,” Equity and Excellence. April 2001, pp. 58-63. “Children in Southern Africa: Visual Portraits,” Journal of Curriculum Theorizing. Spring 2000, pp. 107-120. “45 Years After Brown,” Southern Exposure. Fall 1999, pp. 16-20. “The Tibetan Children’s Village: A Narrative/Photographic Essay,” Multicultural Perspectives. January 1999, pp. 18-24. “The Redneck Shop and Racial Hatred in South Carolina,” Southern Exposure, Spring 1998, “Children in Thailand,” Multicultural Education, Spring 1998, pp. “Childrens Garden: A Visual Portrait of a Preschool for Homeless Children,” Teaching Education. Spring 1997 pp. 89-93. “From Culture War to Compromise: The Battle Over Sexuality Education in a Southern Suburban Town,” Journal of Thought. Winter 1996 pp. 51-71. “South Carolina School History Textbooks: Portrayals of Slavery,” "South Carolina Unrevised: The Treatment of Race in Current School History “Paul Goodman Reconsidered,” Educational Studies. Spring 1996 pp. 14-22. "The Brown Decision, Academic Freedom and White Resistance: Dean Chester Travelstead "Visual Sociological Portrayals of Race and Childhood: Case Studies From the "South Carolina School History Textbooks' Portrayals of Race During Reconstruction; An "Interaction and the Professor: A Visual Tribute to Bernie Mehl," Teaching Education. "Race and Education: A Review of School Segregation as the Present Reality," "Afrocentrisms: Capitalist, Democratic, and Liberationist Portraits," "Carolina Kids: Portraits of Childhood in South Carolina," Carolina View. 1988/89 "One Who Left and One Who Stayed: Recollections and Reflections of School "The New Orleans School Crisis From A Southern Liberal Perspective," "A School Desegregation Diary: Mrs. Chandler and the New Orleans School Crisis," "Black Christian Schools: Carolina Christian's Headmaster As A Case Study," "From Crowds to Mobs: School Integration in New Orleans As A Case Study of "Oral History and Educational History," Journal of Social Studies Research. 1988, "Possibilities, Lost Possibilities, No Possibilities: Images of Middle Class "The New Orleans School Crisis: Causes and Consequences," Phylon. "Oral History and Questions of Interaction for Educational Historians," International Journal "The New Orleans School Crisis: The Whites Who Stayed," VitaeScholasticae. "Racial Myths and Stereotypes," Georgia Social Science Journal. Summer 1987. pp. 4‑14. "Big Time College Sports: The Advocates of Professionalization," Journal of Thought. "As Valuable in 1987 as 1969: The Prospects of American Democracy and Social "Oral Historian as Artist: A Critique of the Professionalization of the Field," "A Principal and Desegregation," Equity and Excellence. Summer 1986. pp. 125‑129. "Rule 48: Causes and Consequences," Proteus. Spring 1986. pp.41‑51. "The New Orleans School Crisis: The Blacks Who Integrated," Vitae Scholasticae. "One Who Stayed: Margaret Conner and the New Orleans School Crisis, " "Edwards, Silent Others, and Rule 48: Analysis in A Time of Conservative Liberalism," "Carpooling for Desegregation," Integrated Education. 1983/1984. pp. 195‑199. "Oral History in the Classroom," The Social Studies. Fall 1983. pp. 380‑381. "Bringing History Alive: Oral History in the Classroom," Review of Education. "Radical Teacher or Salesman," Review of Education. Summer 1982. pp. 228‑235. "Blacks, Sports, and the American Dream," Chrysalis. July 1982. pp. 1‑10. "Robert Coles Reconsidered: A Critique of the Portrayal of Blacks As Culturally Deprived," "The Literacy Campaign: A Cuban Success Story," Review Journal of Philosophy "Black Americans and Middle Class Values," Forum. Spring 1981. pp. 70‑78. "Attacking the Problem of Adult Illiteracy," Iowa Curriculum Bulletin Spring 1981. "Illiteracy: Some Solutions," Review of Education. Fall 1980. pp. 399‑400. "The Search for Educational Roots: Trends in the Schooling of the Jewish Immigrant," "Modern Education in the U.S.," Journal of Thought. November 1979. pp. 255‑262. "From Cheerleaders to Revisionists: The Schooling of the Immigrant," Review "What Happened: The Real Effects of Schooling," Partnership. Summer 1977. p. 9. Presentations “Writing Oral History,” Faculty Seminar U. of Western Cape, Cape Town, June 2005 “Nonracialism as an Educational and World View: Lessons from South African Teachers,” presented at the Cornell University Law School – Brown v. Board of Education Commemoration. February 2004. “Making Voices of Cape Town Classrooms,” Kenton/SACHES Joint Conference, Western Cape, South Africa, October 2003. “Oral History and Counter-Biography: Cultural and Methodological Issues,” Faculty Seminar University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, April 2003. “Oral History as Testimony: Conduit or Critic,” History of Education Society, Pittsburgh, November 2002. “Teachers Fighting Apartheid: Oral Testimonies,” History of Education Society, Pittsburgh, November 2002. “Wedding Pedagogy and Politics: Oral Histories of ‘Coloured’ Women Teachers and the Struggle Against Apartheid,” History of Education Society, New Haven, October 2001. “Voices of South African Teachers,” Teachers College Columbia University, New York, October 2001. “white teachers/black schools,” American Educational Research Association, Division F, Seattle, April 2001. “Apartheid Education Project,” Southern History of Education Society, Atlanta, March 2001. “Oral History Craftsmanship As An Outsider: Stories of Cape Town Teachers,” History of Education Society, San Antonio, October 2000. “Teacher Oral Histories: Cape Town, South Africa,” Southern History of Education Society, Columbia, South Carolina, March 2000. “Informed by Apartheid: Mini-Oral Histories of Two Cape Town Teachers,” History of Apartheid Education Conference, Durban, South Africa, October 99. “Classroom Voices: Oral Histories of Apartheid Era Teachers,” Southern African Comparative and History of Education Society, Johannesburg, South Africa, September 1999. “Oral History and Educational History,” History of Education Society, Toronto, November 96. "The Dean and Desegregation: South Carolina as A Case Study," Southern History of Education Society, Atlanta, March 1995 "A Critique of Papers on Southern Education," History of Education Society, Chapel Hill, NC. November 1994 "Visual Sociology and Educational Biography: A Perspective From the Thirties," "Mature Teachers and an At Risk Alternative," ATE, Las Vegas, February 1990. "Visual Sociology and Educational Foundations: Past Present and Future," AESA/HES, A Critique of Photography and Education Papers, AERA, San Francisco, April 1989. "Grassroots Portraits of School Integration in New Orleans," AERA, New Orleans, April 1988 "Resisting School Integration: New Orleans as A Case Study," SHOES, Atlanta, March 1988. "Possibilities and Problems in the Oral History of Education," AESA/MWHES, Chaired a panel ‑ Communities and Curricula, AESA/MWHES, Chicago, "Oral History and Curriculum History," Society for Curriculum History, Washington, April 1987. "The Fifties Meet the Eighties: Educational Reform in A Time of Conservative Liberalism," "Oral History, Visual Sociology, and Educational Biography," International Society of "African‑American School Children," presented at AESA, Atlanta, November 1985 "Rule 48: A Review of the Issues," ASA, Washington, August 1985 "The New Orleans School Crisis: The In School Participants," HES, Chicago, October 1984 "The New Orleans School Crisis: An Oral History," AERA, New Orleans, April 1984 "The Educational Thought of J. Kozol," SEPES, New Orleans, February 1982 "From Cheerleader to Skeptic: the Immigrant and American Schooling," AESA, Exhibits/Visual Sociology “Somali Bantu in Columbia, South Carolina,” McKissick Museum, U. of South Carolina, October – December 2004 “Children in Exile, Children of the World: A Narrative/Video of the Tibetan Children’s Village,” produced by the Distance Education Department, University of South Carolina. Cover Photograph and Inside Photograph, Family Futures, V1 N2 1997. Cover Photograph, Family Futures. V1 N3 1997. Cover photograph and inside photographic illustrations(from Carolina Kids Project)in Foundations of American Education: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives. by Tim Bergen South Carolina and Me: Children, Diversity, But Also Oppression Trustus, Columbia, SC American Children: Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Museum of Education(Mckissick Museum) August 1995 Lost Possibilities and Southern Children at Basil Pot. Columbia, SC. July 5, 1995 - Carolina Kids Photographs Shown by South Carolina Educational Television ‑‑ United Possibilites, Lost Possibilities, No Possibilities: Images of Children and Adults. Museum Carolina Kids: Images of Children in South Carolina. Museum of Education
Book Reviews
Review of In the Alleys. History of Education Quarterly. Winter 1996, pp. 509-512. Review of Civil Obedience. History of Education Quarterly. Summer 1996, p. 226. Review of Our Common Ground. Multicultural Review. Sept. 1995, p. 66. Review of Going to School. Educational Studies. Summer 1991, pp. 243‑247. Review of Curriculum and Social Psychoanalysis. Educational Studies. Fall 1991, pp. 430‑435. Review of Dignity. International Journal of Oral History. Winter 1987, pp. 239‑242. Review of Common Ground. Educational Studies. Winter 1986.pp.646‑653 Review of Canarsie. Educational Studies. Fall 1986. pp. 477‑481. Review of Sex, Race, Ethnicity and Education. Educational Studies. Spring 1979. pp. 46‑50. Review of Ethnicity and the Schools. Educational Studies. Summer 1978 pp. 97‑198.
Special Appointments and Awards Fulbright Senior Specialist South Africa – 2005 Fieldwork and Service Graduate Council Sub-Committee for the Liberal Arts – 2001/2002 Chair of the Department Steering Committee – 2001/2002 Co-Chair – Dean’s AdHoc Committee – 2000-2001 Social Foundations Seminar – Originated and Coordinate a monthly forum on educational issues and ideas. 2000-2002 Fulbright Advisee Panel – The American Center of the United States Consulate – Cape Town, South Africa, 1999 Novell Institute Consultant – Graboew School District – South Africa, 1999 University of Cape Town – Consultant Western Cape Oral History Project, 1999 Search Committee for Dean of Education Position at the U. Of South Carolina -- 1996, 1997 Chairperson Search Committee for Faculty Ethnography Position at the U. of South Carolina Conducted a Narrative Study on the Holmes Minority Scholars for the Dean's Office. The report Multicultural Consultant ‑‑ Stetson Academy Student Affairs Committee ‑‑ College of Education, 1993‑94 Faculty Advisory Board/College of Education, 1989‑1990 Affirmative Action Committee/College of Education, 1990‑present Workshops on Multicultural Education ‑ presented in Wisconsin 1987‑1989 under the Researcher on the Cities In Schools Project in Columbia, SC‑‑ Research under the auspices Researcher on the Lead Teacher Project for the Orangeburg 5 District Schools ‑‑ Research Committee for the Assessment of Black Student Life ‑ U. of South Carolina, 1986‑1987,1990 Advisor for Oral History/Visual Sociology, Museum of Education, Columbia, SC. 1987‑present Search Committee, Native American Advisor, Director of Multicultural Education Evaluation Committee, U. of Wisconsin/Oshkosh Five Year Program, 1985 Faculty College on Educational Research, U. of Wisconsin/Oshkosh,1985 U. of Wisconsin National Multicultural Education Conference Committee, 1984‑1985 Workshop on Multicultural Education, Fox Valley Technical Institute, 1984 Workshop on Oral History for Teachers, New Orleans 1983 Loyola University/Learning Institute Workshop Instructor, 1982
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