Director

International Center for the Study of Education

Policy and Human Values
Department of Education Policy, Planning, and
Administration
Benjamin Bldg. #143
Room #3104
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

TEL: (301) 405-3588
FAX: (301) 405-4773
E-MAIL: bf6@umail.umd.edu

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• EDUCATION
  bilateral educational and cultural relations; cultural diversity training; education and society; pre-collegiate education; teacher training; teaching methods; immigrant and minority group education; globalization in education reform
• POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
  cultural exchange policy; education policy
• SOCIETY, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
  comparative and cross-cultural studies; cultural stereotypes; minority and ethnic groups

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Professor, Department of Education Policy, Planning, and Administration, University of Maryland, 1983-present.

IN JAPAN: 1992-93 - fellowship; repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

Transcending Stereotypes: Discovering Japanese Culture and Education (ed. with Imamura et al.) (Intercultural Press, 1991); "Tradition and Culture in US Education," American Education (ed. Kitamura) (Kobundo, 1992); Governing the Young: Teacher Behavior in Popular Primary Schools in Nineteenth-Century United States (1989); Regulated Children/Liberated Children: Education in Psychohistorical Perspective (Psychohistory Press, 1979).