PROFILES
Classmate
Finishes Final Papers, Wins Democratic Nomination
By David Meadow
Jimmy
Dahroug is taking an unusual approach to job-hunting after graduate
school: he’s running for office.
Volunteering
Post-Harvard
Student speaks of investing
Ivy League education in others
By Joanna Durham
Robin. Waterman, a doctoral student in Communities and Schools,
has gone beyond just reading Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the
Oppressed", spending most of her time dedicated to working
to empower others, first in Mexico, then El Salvador, and finally
Denver, Colorado.
Caleb
Makes a Name for Himself
By Julia
Laughlin
Have you ever thought
that your name didn’t suit you? Well,
Caleb Neelon has taken the idea of nicknames to a whole new level.
He recently published his first children’s book, Lilman Makes
a Name for Himself (Cantab Publishing), in which a little blue creature
(which Caleb has been doodling since age six) thinks that his name,
Lilman, “doesn’t
seem to be himself and who he is.”
Registrar Worker By Day, Piano Man By Night
By Sarah Grafman
Imagine if Elton John hired The Strokes to be his backing band, fired
the guitar players, and they didn't practice... The Appian fires five
questions at HGSE's own Ethan Kreitzer.
Wrestling
with the Duopoly
Part One of A Series: Education
and Election 2004
By David
Meadow
Mr. Badnarik stated that school should enable people to “provide
for themselves and participate in the country’s government.” Ventura’s
philosophy on education spoke more to intellectual development. School
as a way for students to “learn the basic essentials
so that they can go out in the world… function, and be literate,
and knowledgeable in society.”
She’s
Come a Long Way, Baby
An HGSE Student Profile
By Julia
Laughlin
Most students write 10-page compositions for
their final assignments. For Judah Schwartz’s course, Amy Warren handed in 124 pages.
Warren, now a third-year doctoral student in the Human Development
and Psychology (HDP) program, chuckles as she recalls that, at the
time, she thought that going to such great lengths was “normal.”
Learning
to Teach
An HGSE Student Profile
By Julia
Laughlin
22-year-old Mandel, a Teaching and Curriculum (TAC) student
concentrating in teaching secondary math, frequently wakes up at
6:30 am, not to arrive home before 7:30 pm. Exhausted from a day
of teaching high schoolers and going to class at HGSE, all she
wants is to go to sleep; but the day isn’t over—there
are lessons to plan and work to toil over late into the night.
From
Carnival to Cambridge
Brazil’s Former Education
Chief Shares Vision
By Joanna
Durham
"Wake up, Brazil, it's time for
school" was one of several campaigns initiated by Paulo Renato
Souza, Brazil’s former Minister of Education.This wasn’t
just a cheery slogan, but a plea for change. According to a United
Nations report, hundreds of thousands of Brazilian children weren't
in school when Souza took office in 1994.
Beethoven
by Day, Tiki by Night
By Julia
Laughlin
While many at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
(HGSE) see their future careers taking place within a school building
as teachers
or administrators, Randy Wong sees himself on stage. This laid-back,
22 year-old Hawaii-born student in the Arts and Education program
wants to play the classical bass, discovering
ways to learn
and teach through music.
Re-Inventing
a Nation: Gore Vidal in Askwith Lecture Hall
By David Meadow
The author fixes you with a scowl of magisterial
dignity – it
even looks like indignation – as he stands at his fullest
height, decked out in an impeccably elegant suit. This is Gore
Vidal, thank you very much, and he’ll have you know that
you are looking at the back of his book, Inventing a Nation:
Washington, Adams, Jefferson, so you had better treat said
volume with respect.
Not
Your Average Overachiever: An HGSE Student Profile
By Julia
Laughlin
Upon first meeting Yoan Anguilet, you’ll
know right away that he is not your typical Harvard overachiever.
The Ed.M. candidate
in the Technology in Education program opens his mouth and out comes
English tinged with an authentic French accent, giving everything
he says an unintentional air of glamour and a certain je ne sais
quoi.
Sky’s
the Limit
By Julia Laughlin
Jomphong Mongkhonvanit, an Ed.M.
candidate in the International Education Policy program,
has already accomplished more than many people will accomplish
in a lifetime.
Deciphering
Becky
By Julia
Laughlin
Sumerian language? Children’s
books? Hot chocolate? Meet Becky DeVito, a second-year
doctoral student in the Learning and Teaching Program.
Reddick
Conquers TV's Jeopardy
By Curtis Fazen
GSE doctoral student Richard Reddick is a game show
veteran, having appeared first in "Wheel of Fortune," "Ben
Stein's Money," and then "Jeopardy!"
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