Marilyn
Cochran-Smith earned her Ph.D. in Language and Education from the University
of Pennsylvania in
1982 where she was on the faculty of the Graduate School of Education until
coming to the Lynch School of Education at Boston College in 1996. Dr.
Cochran-Smith is the John E. Cawthorne Professor of Education and Director
of the Doctoral Program in Curriculum and Instruction, where she teaches
courses
and directs
numerous doctoral dissertations. An active researcher and participant in
the national and international educational research communities, Cochran-Smith
is the Immediate Past-President of the American Educational Research Association
(AERA) and Co-Chair of AERA's National Panel on Research and Teacher
Education. She is also the Editor of The Journal of Teacher Education and
Co-Editor of the Teachers College Press series on Practitioner Inquiry.
Dr. Cochran-Smith is Chair of the Evidence Team for Boston College's Teachers
for a New Era project and a member of the TNE Leadership Team.
In 2004, Marilyn Cochran-Smith received the American
Association of Colleges for Teacher Education's highest honor, the Edward
C. Pomeroy Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teacher Education and
the Carl A. Grant Multicultural Research Award presented to her by the
National Association for Multicultural Education. Dr. Cochran-Smith has
written many award-winning articles and books on diversity
in teaching
and
teacher education,
teacher
research, teacher learning, and competing agendas for education reform.
Dr. Cochran-Smith is a frequent keynote speaker nationally and internationally.
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