Adam Howard, Ed.D., is Associate Professor of Education at Colby College. Prior to Colby he taught at Hanover College, Lesley University Graduate School of Education, and Antioch College. At Antioch he also held the administrative positions of Director of Teacher Education and Associate Dean of Faculty. Professor Howard took a leave from Antioch during 2003-04 to teach at Colby as a visiting faculty member. Prior to teaching at the college level, he taught high school English and history at Cincinnati Country Day School and directed Summerbridge Cincinnati, Inc., a non-profit organization designed to provide academic support to disadvantaged middle school students while encouraging high school and college students to consider a teaching career path.

Professor Howard has published numerous articles and papers on social class issues in education, privilege, service-learning, and curriculum theory. He is co-editor (with Hongyu Wang, Oklahoma State University) of the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, an interdisciplinary journal of curriculum studies. He chairs the Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice and is a member of the board of directors of the Corporation for Curriculum Research. He is co-editor of Handbook of Research on Cooperative Education and Internships and author of Learning Privilege: Lessons of Power and Identity in Affluent Schooling. He is currently working on a book with Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández (University of Toronto), titled Ahead of the Rest: Class Privilege and Educational Advantage in the United States.

Selected Recent Conference Papers

Gaztambide-Fernández, R., & Howard, A. (2008, June). “Studying Up”: Puzzles, Complexities, and Autobiography. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Howard, A. (2008, March). Not So Sweet: Portrayals of Privilege in My Super Sweet Sixteen. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, New York.

Howard, A. (2008, March). Queerly Living in a Material World. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, New York.

Howard, A. (2008, March). Resisting Privilege. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, New York.

Parker, B., & Howard, A. (2008, March). Queer(ing) Research Method(ologie)s. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies, New York, New York.

Howard, A. (2007, October). Sorting Out the Complexities of Studying Up. Paper presented at the Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, Dayton, Ohio.

Howard, A. (2007, October). Sweet Portrayals of Privilege. Paper presented at the Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, Dayton, Ohio.

Howard, A. (2007, October). Addressing Contradictions: Struggling To Do What We Say. Paper presented at the Curriculum and Pedagogy Conference, Marble Falls, Texas.

Howard, A., & Parker, B. (2007, April). Tackling Uncomfortable Silences: Teaching Social Class Issues to Pre-Service Teachers in Multicultural Education Classrooms. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies, Chicago, Illinois.

Howard, A. & Tappan, M. (2007, April). Privilege as Identity. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, Illinois.

Howard, A. (2007, April). Privileged Perceptions of the Subjugated Other. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, Illinois.

Howard, A. (2007, April). African American Parents’ Perceptions of Affluent Schools. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, Illinois.

Books


Howard, A. (2008). Learning Privilege: Lessons of Power and Identity in Affluent Schooling. New York: Routledge.


Linn, P., Howard, A., and Miller, E. (Eds.). (2004). Handbook for Research in Cooperative Education and Internships. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Selected Articles

Howard, A. (2007). A broader agenda. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 4(2), 62-67.

Howard, A. (2007). Enduring inequalities. Democracy & Education, 17(1), 17-24

Howard, A., & England-Kennedy, E. (2006). Breaking the silence: Power, conflict, and contested frames within an affluent high school. Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 37(4), 347-365.

Howard, A. (2005). Lessons of poverty: Towards a literacy of survival. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 21(4), 73-82.

Howard, A. (2005). Standardized solutions?: A dialogue with Deborah Meier. Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice, 18(4), 22-28.

Howard, A. & Levine, A. (2004). Where are the poor students?: A conversation about social class and college attendance. About Campus: Enriching the Student Learning Experience, 9(4), 19-24.

Keen, C. & Howard, A. (2002). Experiential learning as a vehicle for social and emotional development for gifted youth. Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, 13(3), 130-140.

Howard, Adam (2002). Students from poverty: Helping them make it through college. About Campus: Enriching the Student Learning Experience, 6(5), 5-12.

Howard, A., & Fortune, J. (2000). Service-learning as the meeting place for ethics and pedagogy. Academic Exchange Quarterly, 4(4), 22-29.

Howard, A. (2000). Pedagogy for the affluent. Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice, 13(2), 34-40.