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David Hursh’s research and teaching interests focus on connecting the political, ethical, and epistemological aspects of teaching and curriculum. His recent teaching for the Warner School includes “Teaching, Curriculum, and Change,” “Race, Class, Gender, and Disability in American Education,” and “Elementary Social Studies.” This fall he will teach a doctoral seminar on Foucault, Bourdieu, and critical theory.
His recent research focuses on the rise of neoliberalism, markets, competition, and high-stakes testing in education. Some of his recent articles have appeared in Educational Researcher, the British Educational Research Journal and Policy Futures in Education. He is guest editing a special issue of Policy Futures in Education on neoliberalism, which will appear in fall 2006. His book, co-authored with G. Macdonald, Twenty-first Century Schools: Knowledge, Networks and New Economies was recently published. His edited book, co-authored with J. Paraskeva and E.W. Ross, Marxism and Education, was published this summer in Portuguese. In total, he has published over 50 journal articles or chapters in edited books.
He serves on several editorial boards, including both sections of the American Educational Research Journal and Policy Futures in Education, and on the board of reviewers for the Journal of Teacher Education. He is active in many local and international educational reform efforts, including Rochester ’s Coalition for Common Sense in Education, an organization committed to critiquing and organizing against the use of high-stakes testing in schools.
In April 2006 he gave a Presidential Invited address, “Carry it on: Fighting for progressive change in neoliberal times,” at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Over the past two years he has given invited presentations at the following universities in Britain : Oxford , London , Bristol , Glasgow , Northampton , Sussex , and Plymouth . He has also given invited presentations on teacher education and school reform in Australia , New Zealand , and Chile . He was invited to teach a course on the politics of high-stakes testing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the summer of 2006.
He is a frequent commentator on educational issues in Rochester ’s Democrat and Chronicle and on Bob Smith’s 1370 Connection, a radio talk show on the local PBS network.
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