Dan Marshall

Dan Marshall, AA, BS, MS, PhD, is a former elementary and middle school teacher in the US and Australia and Professor Emeritus of Education at the Pennsylvania State University, where he served most recently as Professor-in-Charge of the Educational Leadership Program. Before his years at Penn State, he served as Associate Dean and faculty member at the National College of Education (National-Louis University) in Evanston, IL.

Dan's primary areas of academic expertise include curriculum studies and initial teacher preparation. He has also studied and published in early childhood education, LGBT issues in education, home schooling, and popular music.  He has been active in numerous professional associations, including the American Educational Research Association, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, and the Curriculum & Pedagogy Group.

Dan Marshall Scholarly Credits

BOOKS

Turning points in curriculum: A contemporary American memoir (2nd edition). Columbus, OH: Merrill/Prentice-Hall.

When best doesn't equal good. New York: Teachers College Press.

Teaching and thinking about curriculum. New York: Teachers College Press.  (Reprinted in 2001: Troy, NY: Educators International Press).

SELECTED BOOK CHAPTERS

Marshall, J.D. (2008). Popular music. In J.T. Sears (Ed.), The Greenwood encyclopedia of love, courtship, & sexuality through history, vol.6: The Modern World (pp. 184-189). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Marshall, J.D. (2006). Performance. In L. Sandel (Ed.). Teaching with care: Cultivating personal qualities that make a difference (pp. 56-58). Newark, DE: International Reading Association.

Doerr, M.N., & Marshall, J.D. (2004). A contemporary praxis of collaboration.  In R.A. Gaztambide-Fernandez & J.T. Sears (Eds.), Curriculum work as a public moral enterprise (pp.109-118).  Boulder, CO: Roman & Littlefield.

Jungck, S., & Marshall, J.D. (1992). Curricular perspectives on one great debate.  In S. Kessler  & B.B. Swadener (Eds.), Reconceptualizing the early childhood curriculum (pp. 93-102).  New York: Teachers College Press.

SELECTED JOURNALS CONTAINING HIS WORK

Action in Teacher Education, Educational Forum, Educational Leadership, Educational Researcher, Journal of Curriculum & Supervision, Journal of Curriculum Studies, Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education, Peabody Journal of Education, Teacher Education Quarterly, Teacher Researcher, Theory Into Practice, Radical Teacher

SELECTED CONFERENCES (PRESENTER)

American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE), Educational Research Association (AERA), American Educational Studies Association (AESA), Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), Association of Teacher Educators (ATE), Curriculum & Pedagogy (C&P), National Association for Early Childhood Teacher Education (NAECTE)

JOURNAL AFFILIATIONS

American Journal of Education, Canadian Journal of Education, Education and Culture, Educational Forum, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Educational Forum, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Educational Research and Evaluation, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Journal of Curriculum & Pedagogy, Journal of Curriculum Studies, Teaching Education, Teacher Education and Practice, The Teacher Educator, Transnational Curriculum Inquiry.

Dan has served on the boards of various professional journals and was co-editor of the journal Teaching Education for more than eight years. A founding member of the American Educational Research Association's Lesbian and Gay Studies Special Interest Group, and the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development's Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Issues Network, he has received a number of awards and recognitions throughout his professional career, including Penn State's College of Education Outstanding Faculty Award.

Dan has made more than 70 scholarly presentations at national and international conferences and authored or co-authored numerous journal articles, book chapters, and three books in his academic field of curriculum studies.

In his pre-educator life, Dan was keyboard player/singer/songwriter in northeast Ohio bands. From 1965 - 1972 his bands included The New Hudson Exit, Roadshow, and Brainchild with CreativeBridge Coalition co-founder Bill Bodine.