Faculty

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Bernard J. Badiali, Ph.D.

Dr. Badiali is an associate professor of educational leadership in the College of Education. His main teaching and research activities have been in the areas of school/university relationships, staff development, school reform, supervision, and curriculum. Dr. Badiali is a former leadership and project associate with the Institute for Educational Inquiry at the University of Washington. He has published more than a dozen articles in various educational journals. His most recent book is Teacher Leader (2001), with Thomas Poetter. Dr. Badiali currently serves as a professional development associate for the Central Pennsylvania Holmes Partnership Elementary Professional Development Schools.

Marilyn Doerr, Ph.D.

Currently, Dr. Doerr is an adjunct teacher at Cleveland State University and an affiliate faculty member for Penn State, and she is working on two curriculum design projects. One of these projects involves a high school for poor students, part of the Cristo Rey schools of Chicago, in which students work one day a week and go to school the other four days, so that they can earn money to help pay for their tuition. The project is largely funded by the Bill and Melissa Gates Foundation and has just finished its first freshman year.

Dr. Doerr is also involved with a curriculum design project for a Montessori/International Baccalaureate High School. The school will be affiliated with Hiram College in northeastern Ohio and use some of its facilities and faculty. The school combines the college preparatory nature of International baccalaureate high schools with the Montessori philosophy.

Debra Freedman, Ph.D.

Dr. Freedman is a former middle school teacher. Her research interests include curriculum theory, supervisory practices, and cultural studies. In addition, Dr. Freedman is interested in teacher education—specifically, critical pedagogical strategies and mentoring practices of cooperating teachers with preservice teachers. She teaches undergraduate courses in secondary education and graduate courses in curriculum, supervision, and research.

Patricia M. Hinchey, Ed.D.

Dr. Hinchey, associate professor of education, holds a doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University. At Penn State she has taught a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in areas that include language and literacy methods, media literacy, philosophy of education, and various field experiences. Dr. Hinchey has also conducted numerous professional development offerings for Penn State faculty and public school teachers. Earlier in her career she was a high school English teacher and a composition and literature instructor for Penn State. She is the author of the award-winning text Finding Freedom in the Classroom: A Practical Introduction to Critical Theory and Student Rights: A Reference Handbook, which details the status of public school students' Constitutional rights. With Isabel Kimmel, she is co-author of The Graduate Grind: A Critical Look at Graduate Education. Her latest book is Becoming a Critical Educator (2004).

J. Dan Marshall, Ph.D.

Dr. Marshall, professor of education, joined the Penn State faculty in 1992. He has taught at the elementary, secondary, and tertiary levels in several states and abroad. His areas of focus include curriculum studies, teachers as curriculum workers, and teacher education reform efforts.

James Nolan, Ph.D.

Dr. Nolan is a professor of education and co-director of the Penn State-State College Area School District Elementary Professional Development School. He is co-author of Principles of Classroom Management: A Professional Decision-Making Model, with James Levin; Teachers and Educational Change: The Lived Experience of Secondary School Restructuring, with Denise Meister; and Teacher Supervision and Evaluation: Theory into Practice, with Linda Hoover. He is the editor of the journal Pennsylvania Educational Leadership, and he was the editor of the Journal of Curriculum and Supervision from 1987 to 1993. He is also co-author of the award-winning monograph Teacher Supervision and Evaluation: A Process for School District Self-Assessment and Improvement.

James Sears, Ph.D.

Dr. Sears earned an undergraduate degree in history from Southern Illinois University, a graduate degree in political science from the University of Wisconsin, and his doctorate in education and sociology from Indiana University, which awarded him its Outstanding Alumni Award. His scholarship has appeared in a variety of peer-reviewed journals, ranging from the Journal of Homosexuality and Sex Education to the Journal of Moral Education and Educational Policy. Dr. Sears has taught curriculum, research, and LGBT-themed courses in the departments of education, sociology, and women's studies, and the honors college, at several universities, including Harvard University, Trinity University, Indiana University, the College of Charleston, and the University of South Carolina. He has also been a Research Fellow at the Center for Feminist Studies at the University of Southern California, a Fulbright Senior Research Southeast Asia Scholar on sexuality and culture, a Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, and a consultant for the J. Paul Getty Center for Education and the Arts.

Iris Striedieck, D.Ed.

Dr. Striedieck has been affiliated with Penn State's College of Education since 1995. She has been a secondary mathematics teacher and an assistant coordinator of Penn State's Office of Preservice Teaching Experience. Currently she is the lead faculty member for the World Campus's M.Ed. in curriculum and instruction—teacher leadership. Her interests include early field experience preparation and supervision, and integrated curriculum, with a focus on the arts and enabling leadership among teachers and teacher educators.

Dana L. Stuchul, Ph.D.

Dr. Stuchul returned to Penn State in 2002. At Berea College, she taught courses in learning theories, elementary science methods, social-cultural-philosophical-historical foundations of education, and natural science. For nine years she taught secondary chemistry, environmental science, and basketball in Ohio. Her interests focus on those conditions that enable recovery of the "arts of living, suffering, and dying."