| Research Interest: Higher
education, virtual community, ethnographic evaluation in
education, the semiotics of mass culture, and the self in
relation to contemporary personal and political issues of
identity and globalization.
He is also an ethnographic evaluator for the Math Forum, a virtual
math education resource center.
Dr. Shumar is author of College
for Sale: A Critique of the Commodification of Higher
Education, Falmer Press, 1997 and co-editor of Building
Virtual Communities: Learning and Change in Cyberspace,
published by Cambridge University Press.
CURRENT AREAS OF RESEARCH
• Virtual Communities
• The Internet and Technology, and their potential for new forms of learning and interaction
• Higher education, globalization and the transformation of the culture of education.
• Anthropology and psychoanalysis, new movements in psychoanalysis and their implications for notions of the self and identity.
• Self talk and Self Reflection and their implications for identity
• Service Learning and democratic decision-making in schools and communities
RESEARCH PROJECTS
• 2005-Present Co-principal Investigator - Leadership Development for Technology Integration: Developing an Effective NSDL Teacher Workshop Model
• 2003-Present Co-principal Investigator - Virtual Math Teams.
• 2002-2005 Principal Investigator - Online Mentoring Project.
• 2004-2006 Ethnographer - The Concord Model Project.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
• Forthcoming Co-Editor Structure and Agency in the Neoliberal University. New York: Routledge/Falmer.
• Forthcoming First Author Communities of Practice at the Math Forum: Supporting Teachers as Professionals. In Hildreth, P. & Kimble, C. (Eds.) Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing.
• Forthcoming First Author Communities, Texts, Consciousness: The Practice of Participation at Math Forum. In Joni Falk and Brian Drayton (Eds.) Behind the Scenes of Electronic Communities that Nurture Professional Development. New York: Teacher College Press.
• 2002 Co Editor Building Virtual Communities. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• 1997 Author College for Sale: A Critique of the Commodification of Higher Education. London: Falmer Press. |
