Thomas S. Popkewitz

Thomas S. Popkewitz is full Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and holds a Ph.D.h.c. in four European leading universities. His research is about politics of knowledge as its relates with the systems of reason that govern educational policy and research related to pedagogy and the issues of social inclusion and exclusion in educational research, focusing on research paradigms, the changing terrains of knowledge about teaching and teacher education, and reforms in school subjects. He has also conducted national and international studies of historical, ethnographic and comparative studies of national educational reforms and policies in Asia, Europe, Latin America, Southern Africa, and the U.S.. Some of his main books are: A Political Sociology of Educational Reform (New York: Teachers College Press, 1991), Struggling for the soul. The Politics of Schooling and the Construction of the Teacher (New York: Teachers College Press, 1998), and Cosmopolitanism and the Age of School Reform. Science, Education, and Making Society for Making the Child (New York: Routledge, 2008).

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