Professor Thomas Philip, UCLA
February 3rd-5th, 2015
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Thomas M. Philip is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies at UCLA, where he teaches in the Division of Urban Schooling and in Center X’s Teacher Education Program.
Dr. Philip works at the intersections and tensions between the Learning Sciences and theories of ideology, particularly racial ideology, in his examination of teaching and teacher learning. His research is comprised of two major strands. In the first strand, he explores how teachers make sense of their work in a society where competing ideologies emerge from, reproduce, and challenge systems of power. The processes of ideological change that he studies are central to how teachers perceive and act on their sense of agency in navigating and ultimately transforming classrooms and institutions toward more equitable, just, and democratic practices and outcomes. His second research strand examines the larger ideological contexts that influence teaching and learning and explores how teachers might engage in re-shaping the ideologies that enable and constrain their work. This line of research emphasizes that teachers’ classroom practices and their sensemaking about inequity and injustice do not exist in a political vacuum, but are both restricted and made possible by the ideological assumptions that undergird the organization of their schools. Dr. Philip’s research seeks to better understand the ideologies that shape teachers’ work in order to refashion them in ways that advance equity, justice, and democracy. Dr. Philip’s interdisciplinary research on teacher learning and the work of teachers has been recognized by the National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship, the AERA Division G (Social Context of Education) Early Career Award, the AERA Division C (Learning & Instruction) Jan Hawkins Award for Early Career Contributions to Humanistic Research and Scholarship in Learning Technologies, and the National Association for Multicultural Education’s Research Award. His scholarship has appeared in journals including the Harvard Educational Review, Cognition and Instruction, Journal of Teacher Education, and Teaching and Teacher Education. Dr. Philip holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Cognition and Development, both from the University of California at Berkeley. His work as an educator began as a science teacher at a public high school in South Los Angeles. To read some of Professor Philip's work, please click below: |
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