Lee S. Shulman

President, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1997-2008

From 1997 to 2008, acclaimed education scholar and teacher Lee S. Shulman served as president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. A pioneer in the field of teaching and teacher research, Shulman set the foundation’s agenda during those years to focus on the scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education and K-12, preparation for the professions (law, medicine, nursing, engineering, clergy), doctoral education, and higher education’s moral and civic missions. Bringing uncommon wit, passion, and vision to issues of teaching and learning, Shulman’s work and thinking about educational quality have long influenced teachers, researchers, and administrators at all levels of education.

Major Publications

Signature Pedagogies in the Professions
By Lee S. Shulman. Daedalus 134 (3), Summer 2005), pp. 52-59.

Signature pedagogies are the types of teaching that organize the fundamental ways in which future practitioners are educated for their new professions. In these signature pedagogies, novices are instructed in critical aspects of the three fundamental dimensions of professional work—to think, to perform, and to act with integrity. But these three dimensions do not receive equal attention across the professions.

The Wisdom of Practice: Essays on Teaching, Learning, and Learning to Teach
By Lee S. Shulman. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004.

The Wisdom of Practice makes Lee Shulman's major works on K-12 education and teacher education available in one volume. His interests in teaching of all sorts—in K-12 schools, in teacher education, in graduate programs for educational researchers, in liberal education—have been diverse. The essays included touch on such wide-ranging topics as the psychology of school subjects, medical problem solving, teacher knowledge, performance assessment, teaching in higher education, the scholarship of teaching and learning, the characteristics and pedagogies of the professions, the role of cases in professional education and research, and the character of relevant and rigorous educational research.

Teaching as Community Property: Essays on Higher Education
By Lee S. Shulman. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2004.

Teaching as Community Property brings together a comprehensive collection of  Lee Shulman's papers and presentations since 1987, giving readers a unique window into his ideas and proposals for the improvement of teaching and learning in higher education. What emerges is a vision of Shulman's overarching agenda--to improve the quality of teaching for all students by making teaching a more respected and scholarly aspect of the faculty role in all disciplines and professional fields.

Forewords

Lee Shulman also wrote a substantive foreword for many of the books released under the Carnegie Foundation/Jossey Bass imprint during his term as president.

 

Carnegie Perspectives

When Coaching and Testing Collide 
Lee S. Shulman 
In an insightful commentary, the author ruminates on the dilemmas of coaching in the context of high-stakes testing. 
May 2008

It's All About Time! 
Lee S. Shulman 
In pondering the many challenges of basic skills education, Shulman finds inspiration in the advice of one of his mentors, Benjamin Bloom. 
December 2007

Learning about Student Learning from Community Colleges 
Pat Hutchings and Lee S. Shulman 
The authors point out that offices of institutional research are valuable resources for collecting data to help faculty improve their teaching, and can involve the whole institution in a collaborative effort towards improved student learning. 
February 2006  

Excellence: An Immodest Proposal 
Lee S. Shulman 
A commentary that addresses the responsibility and moral obligation of the education community to engage in active investigations of teaching practices and their consequences for students. 
September 2005  

No Drive-by Teachers 
Lee S. Shulman 
What different picture emerges, and what consequences follow, if we think about the teacher as the primary agent of his or her own accountability?  
October 2003

 

Carnegie eLibrary

"Four-word: Against the Grain," in Balancing Acts: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Academic Careers.
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Lee S. Shulman
2004

Foreword to Balancing Acts: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Academic Careers.
"Foreword," in Ethics of Inquiry: Issues in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
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Lee S. Shulman, 2002
Foreword to Ethics of Inquiry: Issues in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

Making Differences: A Table of Learning
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Lee S. Shulman, 2002

"Inventing the Future," in Opening Lines: Approaches to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
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Lee S. Shulman, 2000
Conclusion to Opening Lines: Approaches to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

The Scholarship of Teaching: New Elaborations, New Developments
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Pat Hutchings and Lee S. Shulman, 1999
Originally published in Change, September/October 1999. Volume 31, Number 5. Pages 10-15.

Taking Learning Seriously
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Lee S. Shulman, 1999
Originally published in Change, July/August 1999. Volume 31, Number 4. Pages 10-17.

Visions of the Possible: Models for Campus Support of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
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Lee S. Shulman, 1999
Based on comments made at meetings during November and December, 1999.