HEC Institute for Research

Harmony Education Center's Institute for Research (IR) was created in 1990. Harmony Education Center was created, in part, for the purpose of engaging, supporting, and facilitating a variety of "public discourses" about the education of our nation's children in a diversity of settings within our country. The IR was created primarily to foster and support educational scholarship that is authentic, intellectually engaging, and potentially meaningful to large numbers of our fellow citizens. Over the years the IR has been conducting research into: 1) the lived experiences of the people who work and study at Harmony School; 2) teacher/scholar research on service learning; 3) the ways in which the School has served as a catalyst for pedagogical changes in public schools, and 4) self reflective analyses of various school reform projects. In addition, the IR is offering its assistance in identifying scholarship that provides information helpful to the National School Reform Faculty in its work. Finally, the IR has supported several historical studies of education and progressive politics in the West and an examination of the potential value of teaching the ironies of the Holocaust in high schools and universities. The scholarship of the IR has been published in leading international, academic journals, presented at national and international academic conferences, and in a number of books published in the United States, Spain, The Netherlands, and England. Scholarship associated with the IR has received two national awards for excellence in research.

Dr. Jesse Goodman
goodmanj@indiana.edu



	Harmony Education Center Institute for Research Harmony Education Center's Institute for Research (IR) was created in 1990. Harmony Education Center was created, in part, for the purpose of engaging, supporting, and facilitating a variety of "public discourses" about the education of our nation's children in a diversity of settings within our country. The IR was created primarily to foster and support educational scholarship that is authentic, intellectually engaging, and potentially meaningful to large numbers of our fellow citizens. Over the years the IR has been conducting research into: 1) the lived experiences of the people who work and study at Harmony School; 2) teacher/scholar research on service learning; 3) the ways in which the School has served as a catalyst for pedagogical changes in public schools, and 4) self reflective analyses of various school reform projects. In addition, the IR is offering its assistance in identifying scholarship that provides information helpful to the National School Reform Faculty in its work. Finally, the IR has supported several historical studies of education and progressive politics in the West and an examination of the potential value of teaching the ironies of the Holocaust in high schools and universities. The scholarship of the IR has been published in leading international, academic journals, presented at national and international academic conferences, and in a number of books published in the United States, Spain, The Netherlands, and England. Scholarship associated with the IR has received two national awards for excellence in research. Dr. Jesse Goodman goodmanj@indiana.edu Recent Publications Reforming Schools: Working within a Progressive Tradition in Conservative Times a new book by D. Jesse Goodman, Harmony Education Center Institute for Research http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61292 <Back to Harmony Education Center

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