Megan Blumenreich

 Megan Blumenreich, Associate Professor and Director of the Childhood Education Program. Her research interests include urban education, qualitative research, and alternative routes to education.

Ed. D. 2001          Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY. Department of Curriculum and Teaching, with specialization in Urban Education.

Ed. M. 1997         Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY. 

M.A. 1996            Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY. 

B.A.  1990            Colby College, Waterville, ME

 Courses: Graduate level Curriculum Development, Teacher Research 1 & 2, Supervision and Teaching Seminar courses, and Undergraduate level Inquiry in Education.

Books

Falk, B. & Blumenreich, M.(2012).Teaching matters: Stories from inside city schools.New York: The New Press.

Falk, B. & Blumenreich, M. (2005). The power of questions: A guide to research for teachers and students. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Refereed Articles

Rogers, B. & Blumenreich, M.( Forthcoming.) Reframing the conversation: Insights from oral histories of three 1990 TFA participants.Teachers College Record.

Blumenreich, Megan. (2012). Urban Teacher Candidates Discover Inquiry-based Learning While Developing Oral History Projects.i.e.: inquiry in education: Vol. 3: Iss. 1, Article 3.
Retrieved from: http://digitalcommons.nl.edu/ie/vol3/iss1/3

Blumenreich, M. & Falk, B. (2006). Trying on a new pair of shoes: Urban teacher-learners conduct research and construct knowledge in their own classrooms. Teaching and Teacher Education, 22, 864-873.

Blumenreich, M & Siegel, M. (2006). White uncles, fighter cells, and innocent victims: A discourse analysis of children's books about AIDS. Children's Literature in Education (37), 1, 81-110.

Blumenreich, M. (2004). Avoiding the pitfalls of "conventional" narrative research: Using poststructural theory to guide the creation of narratives of children with HIV. Qualitative Research (4), 1, 77-90.

Blumenreich, M. (2003). Confidentiality, equity, and silence: A critical look at school policy for HIV positive children. Equity & Excellence in Education (36), 1, 64-70.

Book Reviews/Essays

Blumenreich, M. (2011). Scholarly Research Makes Education Dynamic. Teacher Education & Practice, 24 (4), 447-450.

Blumenreich, M. (2008). Critical issues in anti-racist research methodologies. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, (21), 4, 427-431.

Blumenreich, M. & Rhodes, L. (2007). Lessons from Teach for America alumni: A review of In the Deeps Heart's Core, by Michael Johnson; Lessons to Learn: Voices from the Front Lines of Teach for America, by Molly Ness; Taught by America: A Story of Struggle and Hope in Compton, by Sarah Sentilles. The New Educator. (3), 3, 263- 281.

Blumenreich, M. (2005). Making sense of this moment in public education: A review of Letters to the Next President (edited by Carl Glickman) and Teaching the Personal and the Political, by William Ayers. The New Educator, (1), 2, 149-152.

Book Chapter

Blumenreich, M. (Forthcoming). Preservice teachers' oral history projects: Exploring how our communities and cultural pasts shape us. In R. Flessner, G. Miller, K. Patrizio, & J. Horwitz (Eds.) Agency in teacher education. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Encyclopedia Entries

Blumenreich, M. (2009). Differentiated instruction. Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Retrieved May 26, 2009, from Grolier Online http://gme.grolier.com/cgi-bin/article?assetid=0501324-0

Curriculum. (2009). (M. Blumenreich, Rev.). Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Retrieved May 26, 2009, from Grolier Online http://gme.grolier.com/cgi-bin/article?assetid=0077270-0

Fellowships and Grants (last five years):

2012                       Awarded travel grant from the CCNY Travel Program.

2009                       Awarded PSC-CUNY Grant, to analyze data for the study, "Teaching for America: Lessons from Teach for America Participants."

2008                       Awarded CUNY Collaborative Incentive Grant of $33,000 to conduct study, "Teaching for America: Lessons from Teach for America Participants" with Bethany Rogers of CUNY Staten Island.

2007                       Awarded Department of Childhood Education Fieldwork Grant.

2006-2007            Awarded the Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies at CCNY Service-Learning Faculty Fellowship.

2006-2007            Awarded PSC-CUNY Grant, to conduct study, "The art of critique: Poststructural thought in the teacher education classroom."