Ryan, Kevin 1932-

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RYAN, Kevin 1932-

PERSONAL: Born October 7, 1932, in Mount Vernon, NY; married, 1964; wife's name, Marilyn; children: two daughters, one son. Education: University of Toronto, B.A., 1955; Columbia University, M.A., 1960, graduate study, 1962; Stanford University, Ph. D., 1966; Harvard University, postdoctoral study, 1970-71.

ADDRESSES: Home—127 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, MA 02167. Offıce—School of Education, Boston University, 127 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: High school English teacher in Suffern, NY, 1959-63; Stanford University, Stanford, CA, instructor in education, 1965-66; University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, assistant professor, 1969-72, associate professor of education, 1973-75, director of master of arts in teaching program, 1966-69, director of teacher trainers program, 1969-72, associate dean of training program, 1972-73; Ohio State University, Columbus, professor of education, 1975-82, associate dean for program development, 1975-78; Boston University, Boston, MA, professor of education, 1982—, director of Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character, 1989—. Naval Officer's Candidate School, instructor, summer, 1963; Harvard University, visiting professor, 1973, 1974. Member of Character Education Partnership and Network for Educational Excellence; U.S. Office of Education, member of administrative policy commission for ERIC-Clearinghouse for Teacher Education, 1973; National Opinion Research Center, senior study director, 1974-75; consultant to Commission for Public School Personnel Policies in Ohio. Military service: U.S. Naval Reserve, 1955-59, active duty, 1959-65; became lieutenant.

MEMBER: American Educational Research Association, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Association of Teacher Educators, National Society for the Study of Education, Phi Delta Kappa.

AWARDS, HONORS: Alfred North Whitehead fellow, Harvard University, 1970-71; certificate of recognition, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, 1975; Fulbright-Hays scholar in Portugal, 1980; Distinguished Service Medal, University of Helsinki, 1980; Outstanding Teacher Award, Association of Teacher Educators, 1990.

WRITINGS:

(With Dwight William Allen) Microteaching, Addison-Wesley (Reading, MA), 1969.

(With others) Teaching Skills for Elementary and Secondary School Teachers (multimedia instructional material), General Learning Corp., 1969.

(With James M. Cooper) Those Who Can, Teach, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1972, 9th edition, 2000.

Values for Youth: New Approaches to Moral Education (multimedia instructional material), Thomas More Association, 1975.

(With others) Biting the Apple: Accounts of First Year Teachers, Longman (New York, NY), 1980.

Questions and Answers on Moral Education, Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation (Bloomington, IN), 1981.

(With wife, Marilyn Ryan) Making a Marriage, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1982.

(With Leigh Chiarelott and Leonard Davidman) Lenses on Teaching: Developing Perspectives on Classroom Life, Holt, Rinehart, & Winston (Fort Worth, TX), 1990, 2nd edition, 1994.

(With Edward A. Wynne) Reclaiming Our Schools: Teaching Character, Academics, and Discipline, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1993, 2nd edition, Prentice-Hall (Upper Saddle River, NJ), 1997.

(With Karen E. Bohlin) Building Character in Schools: Practical Ways to Bring Moral Instruction to Life, foreword by Sanford N. McDonnell, Jossey-Bass (San Francisco, CA), 1999.

Contributor to books, including Educational Manpower, edited by J. L. Olivero and E. G. Buffe, Indiana University Press (Bloomington, IN), 1970; Criticism, Conflict, and Change: Readings in American Education, edited by Robert Maidment, Dodd, Mead (New York, NY), 1970; and Differentiated Staffıng, edited by James M. Cooper, W. B. Saunders (Philadelphia, PA), 1972; author of foreword, Differentiating the Teaching Staff, by James Lewis, Jr., Parker Publishing (Englewood Cliffs, NJ), 1971. Contributor to education journals.

EDITOR

Don't Smile until Christmas: Accounts of the First Year of Teaching, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 1970.

(With James M. Cooper) Kaleidoscope: Selected Readings in Education, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1972, 9th edition, 2001.

Teacher Education, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 1975.

(With David E. Purpel) Moral Education, McCutchan (Berkeley, CA), 1976.

(With George F. McLean) Character Development in Schools and Beyond, Praeger (New York, NY), 1987, 2nd edition, Council for Research in Values and Philosophy (Washington, DC), 1992.

The Roller Coaster Year: Essays by and for Beginning Teachers, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1992.

(With Marilyn Ryan) Why I Am Still a Catholic, Riverhead Books (New York, NY), 1998.

Brad Linaweaver and Brad Strickland, The Underground Phantom, Lyrick Publishing (Allen, TX), 2000.

Editor of book series, including "Adventures of Wishbone," "Super Adventures of Wishbone," and "Wishbone Mysteries," Lyrick Publishing (Allen, TX), beginning 1998.