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Dan W. Butin
 

Dan W. Butin, Assistant Dean
School of Education
Curriculum Vita
Ph.D., University of Virginia
 

 

Dr. Butin is assistant dean of Cambridge College’s school of education. He is the editor of Service-Learning in Higher Education (2005, Palgrave) and Teaching Social Foundations of Education (2005, Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers), and author, most recently, of Rethinking Service-Learning: Embracing the Scholarship of Engagement within Higher Education (forthcoming, Stylus). Dr. Butin is an editorial board member of the journal Educational Studies. His research focuses on issues of educator preparation and policy and community-based models of teaching, learning, and research. More about Dr. Butin’s teaching and research can be found at http://danbutin.org/.
 

 

Courses Taught :
EDL 840 Social & Cultural Foundations of Educational Leadership
Dissertation Seminars

James Horn, Visiting Associate Professor and Practicum Coordinator
Curriculum Vitae
Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Knoxville

 

Dr. Horn comes to Cambridge College with over three decades of experience as a K-12 educator and professor of social foundations and research. He has served as a high school English teacher, librarian, director of media services, and assistant professor of education before his current appointment as Associate Professor in the EdD program at Cambridge. He holds licensure as a classroom teacher, librarian, and school administrator. He took his PhD in 1995 and has since published book chapters in refereed volumes, as well as articles and reviews in venues ranging from academic journals to practitioner newsletters. His theoretical research agenda focuses on understanding complexity in educational systems, and his applied research ranges from exploring teacher renewal to understanding the effects of high stakes testing in urban school settings. He is strongly committed to renewing the democratic purposes of public education, and he advocates for the social justice mission of schools here and abroad.

 

Courses Taught :
EAD 790 Practicum in School Administration
ECC 708 Learning Theories and Instructional Design
EDL 830 Schools & Social Justice
EDL 840 Social & Cultural Foundations of Educational Leadership
EDL 910 - 940 Dissertation Seminars

 
 
 
 

Shannon Houston, Director
Department of Educational Leadership
Ed.M., Harvard University

 


Shannon is the director of all administrative functions of the department. She began as an intern in 2005 helping to establish the first doctoral program at Cambridge College and joined the doctoral staff full time in 2006, upon completion of her degree in higher education at Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has since been promoted to director of the department, which oversees master's, CAGS, and doctoral programs in educational leadership. Previously, she was responsible for coordinating undergraduate and graduate academic programs in the School of Architecture at Princeton University.

 

 

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