Gary K. Clabaugh
Professor
Contact Information
Office: Olney Hall, room 263
Phone: 215.951.1195
E-mail: clabaugh@lasalle.edu
Website: http://www.newfoundations.com
Profile
I have worked in various aspects of education for nearly 50 years. First as Commander of an advanced training company in the United States Army Training Command, Armor, then as a middle school teacher and finally as a university professor. During my time at La Salle I have taught a variety of courses and also been Director of the Education Department’s Evening Program, Director of the Secondary Education Program, Chair of the Department of Education and co-founder and Director of Graduate Programs in Education.
I specialize in educational policy and politics, educational philosophy, school controversies, school law, educational history, school finance, and social influences on education. I also teach Physical and Cultural Geography and have taught Educational Psychology, German Literature in English Translation and Changing Perspectives in the Humanities — the later for Temple University.
Active in professional organizations such as the Society of Professors of Education and Pi Lambda Theta, the international national honor society in education, I also served as Contributing Editor to Educational Horizons for nearly twenty years, was a board member of the Interfaith Council for the Teaching of the Holocaust and chaired the committee that created the national standards for Foundations of Education. Right now I am busy co-founding New Educational Foundations, a trans-ideological scholarly journal and operating www.newfoundations,com , a 3 million plus visitors a year education website specializing in research, criticism and review.
Areas of Expertise
- Educational policy studies
- Philosophy of education
- Social foundations of education
- Religious Extremism and Public Education
- World Cultural and Physical Geography
Education
- B.S. in Secondary Education, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
- M.S. Temple University
- Ed. D. Temple University
Teaching
- Educational Psychology
- Foundations of Education
- Changing Perspectives in the Humanities
- World Cultural and Physical Geography
- German Literature in English Translation
- Extremism in America
Research
Books
James William Noll Editor, Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Educational Issues, “Are Truly Democratic Classrooms Possible?” McGraw Hill, New York, 2010. (This is a republication of an article originally published in Educational Horizons, Fall 2008.)
G. Clabaugh and E. Rozycki, Analyzing Controversy: An Introductory Guide, Dushkin Mc Graw-Hill Publishing, 1997
G. Clabaugh and E. Rozycki, Understanding Schools: The Foundations of Education, Harper & Row, New York, January, 1990
Recent Articles
Teacher Accontability and the Pathology of Domination, Educational Horizons, Volume 88, Number 4, Summer 2010.
“Males Discuss Female Education: A Historical Symposium” Educational Horizons, Spring 2010, Volume 88, Number 3, pp. 164-179.
“Arne Duncan and Teacher Education: just tinkering around the edges” Educational Horizons, Winter 2010, Volume 88, Number 2, pp. 72-77.
Recent Presentations
The School as Temple, Town Meeting or Factory: Using Ideal Types to Understand Conflicting Educational Expectations, Middle Atlantic States Philosophy of Education Society, Winter 2011.
Personal Interests
Golf, Fishing, Photography and Wood Turning.
Greer Richardson, Ph.D.
Interim Director
La Salle University
Graduate Programs in Education
1900 West Olney Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19141 USA
Phone: 215.951.1806
Fax: 215.951.1843
E-mail: graded@lasalle.edu
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