Kathryn (Katie) Weitz White, MEd. MPES Cohort 1, Multidisciplinary Program in Education Sciences Annenberg Hall Room 218 2120 Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60208-0001 Phone: (847) 467-2815

Katie Weitz White is on leave, but would be a fourth year doctoral student in the Human Development and Social Policy program at Northwestern University.  Katie received her bachelor’s degree from Carleton College in political science and a Master’s degree from DePaul in education, as well as one from Northwestern University from the School of Education and Social Policy.  Before coming to Northwestern, Katie taught in Chicago area schools for almost five years.  Katie’s work with Professor McAdams has been to analyze stories of principal school leadership told by Chicago Public School principals in collaboration with Prof. James Spillane through a Spencer Foundation fellowship.  Katie is also a fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program of Education Sciences at Northwestern and is working on differences in expert and novice principal problem solving.  Her current work centers on the roots of generativity:  asking how urban adolescents engage in civic life and develop political identity.

 

View Kathryn Weitz White's CV.

Year		Degree		Institution
2005		MA, Education and Social Policy Human Development and Social Policy		Northwestern University
1999		Masters of Education		DePaul University
1996		Bachelors of Arts		Carleton College

Katie Weitz White & James Rosenbaum (August, 2005). Inside the black box: Sociological mechanisms affecting professional devinace, student classification and school culture. Paper presented to Sociology of Education's No Child Left Behind Conference. Philadelphia, PA.

education and adolescents; civic engagement and the roots of generativity in adolescence; narrative identity development; educator's leadership narratives and cognitive proceses; education policy

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