Alan Wieder - College of Education - University of South Carolina

Alan Wieder
261 Wardlaw
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
(803) 777-6585
cell (803) 361-2031
email awieder@gwm.sc.edu
Education
1977 Ph.D. Social Foundations of Education
Ohio State University
1973 M.Ed. Social Foundations of Education
University of Cincinnati
1971 B.A. Social Science
Ohio State University: June 1971
Administrative positions
2005 (ongoing) Department Chair/Educational Studies University of South Carolina
2003-2005 Program Coordinator University of South Carolina
Teaching positions
2005-May/June Fulbright Senior Specialist University of the Western Cape
2004-present Professor University of South Carolina
2003-present Extraordinary Professor University of the Western Cape
2003 Visiting Professor University of Cape Town
1989-2003 Associate Professor University of South Carolina
1999 Fulbright Scholar University of the Western Cape
1986-1989 Assistant Professor University of South Carolina
1984-1986 Assistant Professor University of
Wisconsin/Oshkosh
1983-1984 Visiting Assistant Professor University of New Orleans

1981-1982 Visiting Assistant Professor Tulane University
1979-1981 Instructor Shawnee State College
1977-1979 Visiting Assistant Professor Oklahoma State University
1974-1977 Graduate Assistant Ohio State University
The teaching positions listed above include appointments in both social foundations of education and
sociology departments. Teaching is at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Presently I am
teaching graduate courses in social foundations and qualitative research and am chairing six doctoral
committees.
ADMINSTRATIVE ROLES
• leadership – research, teaching, and service
• college governance
• discourse – individual, department, college, university, community
• management – office, faculty, staff, and graduate students
• budget
• recruitment and retention
• diversity – recruitment and retention
• mentoring
• evaluation – annual performance and tenure and promotion
• scheduling
• curriculum and program development
• strategic planning
• accreditation
(Department Chair reports can be read at http://edpsych.ed.sc.edu/Documents.asp)
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Teacher and Comrade: Richard Dudley and the Fight for Democracy in South Africa (in press
SUNY Press)
Voices From Cape Town Classrooms: Oral Histories of Teachers Who Fought Apartheid (New
York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2003) (Cape Town, University of the Western Cape, 2003)
Race and Education: Narrative Essays, Oral Histories, Documentary Photography
(New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1997)

Immigration, the Public School, and the 20th Century American Ethos
(Maryland, University Press of America, 1985)
Book Chapters
“Informed by Apartheid: Mini-Oral Histories of Two Cape Town Teachers,” in Kallaway, Peter. The
History of Education Under Apartheid (New York, Cape Town: Peter Lang Publishing/Miller
Matthew Longman, 2002) pp. 197-210.
“Being Jewish, Teaching Social Foundations, and Studying Race,” in Strangers in the Land. edited
by Svi Shapiro (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1999)
“South Carolina Unrevised: The Treatment of Race in Current School History Textbooks,” in
Annual Editions Multicultural Education, 1997/98. (New York: Dushkin Publishers, 1998)
“Trust and Memory: Explorations in Oral History and Biography,” in Educational Biography:
Adventures and Explorations in Educational Research. edited by Craig Kridel (New York: Garland,
1998)
"Afrocentrisms," in Annual Editions Multicultural Education, 1994/95.
(New York: Dushkin Publishers, 1994)
"One Who Left and One Who Stayed," in The Teacher's Voice. edited by
Richard Altenbaugh (London, Falmer, 1991)
"Racial Myths and Sterotypes: An Introduction for Human Services."
in Human Services the Empowering Profession. edited by E. Weisse
(Oshkosh, U. of Wisconsin/Oshkosh, 1986)
"Robert Coles Reconsidered: A Critique of the Portrayal of Blacks As Culturally
Deprived," in Education as An Agent For Change edited by Homer Sherman
(Lexington, Guinn, 1983)
Articles
“A Mother and Her Daughters: Jewish Teachers and the Fight Against Apartheid,” Teachers College
Record. forthcoming, June 2007.
“South African Teacher Oral Histories: A Primer on Process,” Southern African Review of
Education. 2005.
“Nonracialism as an Educational and World View: Lessons from South African Teachers,”
Cornell Law Review. V.90. I.2. January 2005. pp. 101-111.
“South African Teacher Stories: The Past Speaks to the Present and Future,” Perspectives in

Education. V. 22. N.4. December 2004. pp. 29-36.
“Testimony as Oral History: Lessons from South Africa,” Educational Researcher. V. 33. N. 6.
August/September 2004. pp. 23-28.
“Education, Radical Politics and Modernity in Southern Africa: The Teaching Life of Ali Fataar,”
Southern African Review of Education, 2002 (published 2003), pp. 31-43. (with Aslam Fataar)
“Oral History Craftsmanship: Reflections on Writing Cape Town Teacher Stories,” UWC Papers in
Education. 2002 (published 2003), pp. 65-70.
“White Teachers/White Schools: Oral Histories From the Struggle Against Apartheid,” Multicultural
Education. Summer 2003, pp. 26-31.
“Teachers Against Apartheid: A Case Study of a White Teacher in a White School,” Southern
African Review of Education. V7, 2001(published 2003), pp. 47-52.
“Black Teachers and The Struggle Against Bantu Education,” Multicultural Review. September
2002, pp. 42-51.
“Wedding Pedagogy and Politics: Oral Histories of Black Women Teachers and the Struggle
Against Apartheid,” Race, Ethnicity and Education. July 2002, pp. 133-149.
“Teachers/Political Prisoners: Oral Histories From Apartheid South Africa,” Equity and Excellence.
December, 2001, pp. 87-94.
“They Can’t Take Our Souls: Teachers’ League of South Africa Reflections of Apartheid,” Race
Ethnicity and Education. June 2001, pp. 145-166.
“white teachers/black schools: stories from apartheid South Africa,” Multicultural Education.
Summer 2001, pp. 14-23.
“A Principal’s Perspective of School Integration: The First School to Integrate in Cape Town, South
Africa,” Equity and Excellence. April 2001, pp. 58-63.
“Children in Southern Africa: Visual Portraits,” Journal of Curriculum Theorizing. Spring 2000, pp.
107-120.
“45 Years After Brown,” Southern Exposure. Fall 1999, pp. 16-20.
“The Tibetan Children’s Village: A Narrative/Photographic Essay,” Multicultural Perspectives.
January 1999, pp. 18-24.
“The Redneck Shop and Racial Hatred in South Carolina,” Southern Exposure, Spring 1998,
pp. 39-44.

“Children in Thailand,” Multicultural Education, Spring 1998, pp.
“Childrens Garden: A Visual Portrait of a Preschool for Homeless Children,” Teaching Education.
Spring 1997 pp. 89-93.
“From Culture War to Compromise: The Battle Over Sexuality Education in a Southern Suburban
Town,” Journal of Thought. Winter 1996 pp. 51-71.
“South Carolina School History Textbooks: Portrayals of Slavery,”
Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education. Fall 1996 pp. 177-194.
"South Carolina Unrevised: The Treatment of Race in Current School History
Textbooks," Multicultural Education. Spring 1996 pp. 12-17.
“Paul Goodman Reconsidered,” Educational Studies. Spring 1996 pp. 14-22.
"The Brown Decision, Academic Freedom and White Resistance: Dean Chester Travelstead
and the University of South Carolina," Equity and Excellence. Winter 1995, pp. 45-49.
"Visual Sociological Portrayals of Race and Childhood: Case Studies From the
Thirties," Multicultural Review. Fall 1995 pp. 28-35.
"South Carolina School History Textbooks' Portrayals of Race During Reconstruction; An
Historical Analysis," Journal of Thought. Spring 1995, pp. 19-33.
"Interaction and the Professor: A Visual Tribute to Bernie Mehl," Teaching Education.
Winter/Spring 1995, pp. 2,3,4,42,72,94.
"Race and Education: A Review of School Segregation as the Present Reality,"
Equity and Excellence. December 1994, pp. 76-84.
"Afrocentrisms: Capitalist, Democratic, and Liberationist Portraits,"
Educational Foundations. Winter 1992. pp.
"Carolina Kids: Portraits of Childhood in South Carolina," Carolina View. 1988/89
pp. 47-55.
"One Who Left and One Who Stayed: Recollections and Reflections of School
Desegregation in New Orleans," Vitae Scholasticae. pp.
"The New Orleans School Crisis From A Southern Liberal Perspective,"
Vitae Scholasticae. pp.
"A School Desegregation Diary: Mrs. Chandler and the New Orleans School Crisis,"
Equity and Excellence. Spring 1989, pp. 7-11.

"Black Christian Schools: Carolina Christian's Headmaster As A Case Study,"
Thresholds in Education. Spring 1989, pp. 18-20.
"From Crowds to Mobs: School Integration in New Orleans As A Case Study of
Collective Behavior," Equity and Excellence. Spring 1989, pp. 4-7.
"Oral History and Educational History," Journal of Social Studies Research. 1988,
pp. 25-30.
"Possibilities, Lost Possibilities, No Possibilities: Images of Middle Class
Children and Disadvantaged Adults," International Journal of Qualitative Studies in
Education. 1988, pp. 225-238.
"The New Orleans School Crisis: Causes and Consequences," Phylon.
Spring 1988, pp. 12-131.
"Oral History and Questions of Interaction for Educational Historians," International Journal
of Oral History. Summer 1988, pp. 131-138.
"The New Orleans School Crisis: The Whites Who Stayed," VitaeScholasticae.
Spring/Fall 1986, pp. 169-189.
"Racial Myths and Stereotypes," Georgia Social Science Journal. Summer 1987. pp. 4-14.
"Big Time College Sports: The Advocates of Professionalization," Journal of Thought.
Spring 1987. pp. 45-48.
"As Valuable in 1987 as 1969: The Prospects of American Democracy and Social
Foundations," Teaching Education. February 1987. pp. 105-107.
"Oral Historian as Artist: A Critique of the Professionalization of the Field,"
Indiana Journal of Folklore and Oral History. July-December 1986. pp. 121-126.
"A Principal and Desegregation," Equity and Excellence. Summer 1986. pp. 125-129.
"Rule 48: Causes and Consequences," Proteus. Spring 1986. pp.41-51.
"The New Orleans School Crisis: The Blacks Who Integrated," Vitae Scholasticae.
1984/1985 pp. 381-394.
"One Who Stayed: Margaret Conner and the New Orleans School Crisis, "
Louisiana History. Spring 1985. pp. 194-201.
"Edwards, Silent Others, and Rule 48: Analysis in A Time of Conservative Liberalism,"
Journal of Thought. Winter 1985. pp.89-95.

"Carpooling for Desegregation," Integrated Education. 1983/1984. pp. 195-199.
"Oral History in the Classroom," The Social Studies. Fall 1983. pp. 380-381.
"Bringing History Alive: Oral History in the Classroom," Review of Education.
Spring 1984. pp. 71-74.
"Radical Teacher or Salesman," Review of Education. Summer 1982. pp. 228-235.
"Blacks, Sports, and the American Dream," Chrysalis. July 1982. pp. 1-10.
"Robert Coles Reconsidered: A Critique of the Portrayal of Blacks As Culturally Deprived,"
Journal of Negro Education. Fall 1981. pp. 381-389.
"The Literacy Campaign: A Cuban Success Story," Review Journal of Philosophy
and Social Science. 1981. pp. 164-175.
"Black Americans and Middle Class Values," Forum. Spring 1981. pp. 70-78.
"Attacking the Problem of Adult Illiteracy," Iowa Curriculum Bulletin Spring 1981.
pp. 57-60.
"Illiteracy: Some Solutions," Review of Education. Fall 1980. pp. 399-400.
"The Search for Educational Roots: Trends in the Schooling of the Jewish Immigrant,"
Review Journal of Philosophy and Social Science. Winter 1980. pp. 58-68.
"Modern Education in the U.S.," Journal of Thought. November 1979. pp. 255-262.
"From Cheerleaders to Revisionists: The Schooling of the Immigrant," Review
Journal of Philosophy and Social Science. Winter 1979. pp. 68-90.
"What Happened: The Real Effects of Schooling," Partnership. Summer 1977. p. 9.
Presentations
“Writing Oral History,” Faculty Seminar U. of Western Cape, Cape Town, June 2005
“Nonracialism as an Educational and World View: Lessons from South African Teachers,”
presented at the Cornell University Law School – Brown v. Board of Education Commemoration.
February 2004.
“Making Voices of Cape Town Classrooms,” Kenton/SACHES Joint Conference, Western Cape,
South Africa, October 2003.
“Oral History and Counter-Biography: Cultural and Methodological Issues,” Faculty Seminar

University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, April 2003.
“Oral History as Testimony: Conduit or Critic,” History of Education Society, Pittsburgh, November
2002.
“Teachers Fighting Apartheid: Oral Testimonies,” History of Education Society, Pittsburgh,
November 2002.
“Wedding Pedagogy and Politics: Oral Histories of ‘Coloured’ Women Teachers and the Struggle
Against Apartheid,” History of Education Society, New Haven, October 2001.
“Voices of South African Teachers,” Teachers College Columbia University, New York, October
2001.
“white teachers/black schools,” American Educational Research Association, Division F, Seattle,
April 2001.
“Apartheid Education Project,” Southern History of Education Society, Atlanta, March 2001.
“Oral History Craftsmanship As An Outsider: Stories of Cape Town Teachers,” History of
Education Society, San Antonio, October 2000.
“Teacher Oral Histories: Cape Town, South Africa,” Southern History of Education Society,
Columbia, South Carolina, March 2000.
“Informed by Apartheid: Mini-Oral Histories of Two Cape Town Teachers,” History of Apartheid
Education Conference, Durban, South Africa, October 99.
“Classroom Voices: Oral Histories of Apartheid Era Teachers,” Southern African Comparative and
History of Education Society, Johannesburg, South Africa, September 1999.
“Oral History and Educational History,” History of Education Society, Toronto, November 96.
"The Dean and Desegregation: South Carolina as A Case Study," Southern History of Education
Society, Atlanta, March 1995
"A Critique of Papers on Southern Education," History of Education Society, Chapel Hill, NC.
November 1994
"Visual Sociology and Educational Biography: A Perspective From the Thirties,"
AERA, New Orleans, April 1994.
"Mature Teachers and an At Risk Alternative," ATE, Las Vegas, February 1990.
"Visual Sociology and Educational Foundations: Past Present and Future," AESA/HES,
Chicago, November 1989.

A Critique of Photography and Education Papers, AERA, San Francisco, April 1989.
"Grassroots Portraits of School Integration in New Orleans," AERA, New Orleans, April 1988
"Resisting School Integration: New Orleans as A Case Study," SHOES, Atlanta, March 1988.
"Possibilities and Problems in the Oral History of Education," AESA/MWHES,
Chicago, November 1987.
Chaired a panel - Communities and Curricula, AESA/MWHES, Chicago,
November 1987.
"Oral History and Curriculum History," Society for Curriculum History, Washington, April 1987.
"The Fifties Meet the Eighties: Educational Reform in A Time of Conservative Liberalism,"
AESA, Pittsburgh, Nov. 1986.
"Oral History, Visual Sociology, and Educational Biography," International Society of
Educational Biography, Chicago, May 1986.
"African-American School Children," presented at AESA, Atlanta, November 1985
"Rule 48: A Review of the Issues," ASA, Washington, August 1985
"The New Orleans School Crisis: The In School Participants," HES, Chicago, October 1984
"The New Orleans School Crisis: An Oral History," AERA, New Orleans, April 1984
"The Educational Thought of J. Kozol," SEPES, New Orleans, February 1982
"The Educational and Occupational Aspirations of Black Americans," AESA,
Colorado Springs, November 1980.
"From Cheerleader to Skeptic: the Immigrant and American Schooling," AESA,
Washington, November 1978.
Exhibits/Visual Sociology
“Somali Bantu in Columbia, South Carolina,” McKissick Museum, U. of South Carolina, October –
December 2004
“Children in Exile, Children of the World: A Narrative/Video of the Tibetan Children’s Village,”
produced by the Distance Education Department, University of South Carolina.
Cover Photograph and Inside Photograph, Family Futures, V1 N2 1997.

Cover Photograph, Family Futures. V1 N3 1997.
Cover photograph and inside photographic illustrations(from Carolina Kids Project)in Foundations
of American Education: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives. by Tim Bergen
(New York: McGraw Hill, 1993,94)
South Carolina and Me: Children, Diversity, But Also Oppression Trustus, Columbia, SC
April, May 1996
American Children: Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Museum of Education(Mckissick Museum)
August 1995
Lost Possibilities and Southern Children at Basil Pot. Columbia, SC. July 5, 1995 -
August 31, 1995.
Children in the South, Museum of Education(Mckissick Museum) March - May 1995 then extended
July 1995
Carolina Kids Photographs Shown by South Carolina Educational Television -- United
States Secretary of Education Dick Riley's Education Town Meetings. March, May 1993
Possibilites, Lost Possibilities, No Possibilities: Images of Children and Adults. Museum
of Education(McKissick Museum) Columbia (November 1993-May 1994) (March-June 1988)
Grand Opera House, Oshkosh, Wisconsin (Summer 1988) American Educational Studies
Association National Meeting, Chicago (November 1989) School of Education,
U. of Michigan (January 1990)
Carolina Kids: Images of Children in South Carolina. Museum of Education
(McKissick Museum) Columbia (December-March 1988/1989)
Book Reviews
Review of In the Alleys. History of Education Quarterly. Winter 1996, pp. 509-512.
Review of Civil Obedience. History of Education Quarterly. Summer 1996, p. 226.
Review of Our Common Ground. Multicultural Review. Sept. 1995, p. 66.
Review of Going to School. Educational Studies. Summer 1991, pp. 243-247.
Review of Curriculum and Social Psychoanalysis. Educational Studies. Fall 1991, pp. 430-435.
Review of Dignity. International Journal of Oral History. Winter 1987, pp. 239-242.

Review of Common Ground. Educational Studies. Winter 1986.pp.646-653
Review of Canarsie. Educational Studies. Fall 1986. pp. 477-481.
Review of Sex, Race, Ethnicity and Education. Educational Studies. Spring 1979. pp. 46-50.
Review of Ethnicity and the Schools. Educational Studies. Summer 1978 pp. 97-198.
Special Appointments and Awards
Fulbright Senior Specialist South Africa – 2005
USC College of Education Outstanding Scholarship Award -- 2005
USC Graduate School Research Fellowship – Teacher Oral History Project – 2005 ($12,000)
Fulbright Senior Specialist List – 2003
USC/SPAR Research and Development Award -- 2003 ($5800)
Tenure Reviewer for Dr. Julie Kailin-University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
External Thesis Reviewer for Paul Hendricks-University of Cape Town, 2002
Grant Reviewer-National Research Foundation, South Africa, 2002
Associate Editor-Multicultural Education
Editorial Board-Journal of Thought
Editorial Board-Multicultural Perspectives
Manuscript Reviewer-Urban Education, 2002
Manuscript Reviewer-Race, Ethnicity, and Education, 2002
Manuscript Reviewer – Division F, AERA, 2000
Fulbright Scholar South Africa -- 1999
Editorial Board-Southern African Review of Education
Manuscript Reviewer-Division B, AERA, 1998
Photographic Editor-Teaching Education
Manuscript Reviewer-Division F, AERA, 1997
Program Chair -- Southern History Education Meeting -- 1996
Manuscript Reviewer-Multicultural Review 1995
Manuscript Reviewer-American Journal of Educational Research 1994
Manuscript Reviewer-International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 1993
Outside Tenure/Promotion Reviewer for Dr.Guy Senese at Northern Illinois University
ManuscriptReviewer-International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 1991
Chairperson - Butts Lecture Nominating Committee(AESA) 1989-1990
Manuscript Reviewer-American Journal of Educational Research 1990
Manuscript Reviewer-SUNY Press (1990)
Summer Research Fellowship - UW/Oshkosh (Summer 1986)
Manuscript Reviewer-Sports Sociology Journal (1984-1985)
Finalist - Tinker Foundation Fellowship (1980)
Butts Lecture Nominating Committee (AESA) 1980
Finalist -NIE/Spencer Foundation Fellowship(1979)
Fieldwork and Service

Co-Chair Strategic Planning Diversity Committee – 2005/2006
Graduate Council Sub-Committee for the Liberal Arts – 2001/2002
Chair of the Department Steering Committee – 2001/2002
Co-Chair – Dean’s AdHoc Committee – 2000-2001
Social Foundations Seminar – Originated and Coordinate a monthly forum on educational issues and
ideas. 2000-2002
Fulbright Advisee Panel – The American Center of the United States Consulate – Cape Town, South
Africa, 1999
Novell Institute Consultant – Graboew School District – South Africa, 1999
University of Cape Town – Consultant Western Cape Oral History Project, 1999
Search Committee for Dean of Education Position at the U. Of South Carolina -- 1996, 1997
Chairperson Search Committee for Faculty Ethnography Position at the U. of South Carolina
1995-1996.
Conducted a Narrative Study on the Holmes Minority Scholars for the Dean's Office. The report
was submitted to Phillip Morris Corporation.
Multicultural Consultant -- Stetson Academy
This work under the auspices of Stetson University and Disney Corporation has included
workshops for Florida teachers as well as the writing of curriculum materials on multicultural
education.
Student Affairs Committee -- College of Education, 1993-94
Faculty Advisory Board/College of Education, 1989-1990
Affirmative Action Committee/College of Education, 1990-present
Workshops on Multicultural Education - presented in Wisconsin 1987-1989 under the
supervision of Marian College
Researcher on the Cities In Schools Project in Columbia, SC-- Research under the auspices
of the Educational Policy Center of the University of South Carolina, 1988-1989
Researcher on the Lead Teacher Project for the Orangeburg 5 District Schools -- Research
under the auspices of the Educational Policy Center of the University of South Carolina, 1987

Committee for the Assessment of Black Student Life - U. of South Carolina, 1986-1987,1990
Advisor for Oral History/Visual Sociology, Museum of Education, Columbia, SC. 1987-present
Search Committee, Native American Advisor, Director of Multicultural Education
U. of Wisconsin/Oshkosh 1984/1985
Evaluation Committee, U. of Wisconsin/Oshkosh Five Year Program, 1985
Faculty College on Educational Research, U. of Wisconsin/Oshkosh,1985
U. of Wisconsin National Multicultural Education Conference Committee, 1984-1985
Workshop on Multicultural Education, Fox Valley Technical Institute, 1984
Workshop on Oral History for Teachers, New Orleans 1983
Loyola University/Learning Institute Workshop Instructor, 1982