Two commercial photography groups provided services at the 5th Annual "A Celebration of Education in Oklahoma" on April 29th, 2005. Photos may be viewed and ordered online through each of these companies websites. Party Pics took photographs of the scholarship presentation ceremony and the awards presentation for the inaugural class of the OU College of Education Hall of Fame. To view/order the Party Pics shots from the Celebration, go to http://www.normanpartypics.com/Q/Proofs.aspx?GroupID=2293, then scroll down to Events toward the bottom, then click on "Celebration of Education" Travis Caperton took photographs of the awards presentation for the Award of Distinction, Career Achievement, Meritorious Service, Career Educator and Young Educator, as well as individual table shots. Please go to www.pictage.com to view this event. You will need the following information to access the event. First log in with your name, email address and create a password of your choice. Then search for Celebration of Education in Oklahoma. To view the images, you may be asked for an event key. You may order these photos online by clicking on the shopping cart icon. They will be sent directly to you by Pictage. |
MAYNARD REYNOLDS was there in the 1950s at the beginning of the field of Special Education. He is Professor Emeritus of Special Education at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Beginning in 1957, Professor Reynolds chaired a department concerned with preparation of specialized teachers and research relating to handicapped and gifted students. In 1965-66, Reynolds served as the international president of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC). Later, as the first chair of CEC's Policy Commission, he was increasingly active in advancing the concept that every child has a right to an education. Since his retirement from Minnesota in 1989, Reynolds has served in Endowed Professorships at Cal State - Los Angeles and at the University of San Diego, and served as a Senior Research Associate for the Center for Research on Human Development and Education at Temple University in Phila-delphia. Reynolds is the recipient of several awards and has authored or edited more than 40 books and 100 articles on Special Education or School Psychology.
STEPHEN BROOKFIELD is currently a Distinguished Professor at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis. Brookfield holds degrees and post-graduate diplomas from several universities in the United Kingdom, including a Ph.D. from the University of Leicester. Brookfield has run numerous workshops on teaching, adult learning, and critical thinking around the world to college and university groups, major US companies and educational institutions in North America and the United Kingdom. Among his many awards are the 2001 Leadership Award from the Association for Continuing Higher Education and both the 1986 and 1996 Cyril O. Loule World Awards for Literature in Adult Education. Professor Brookfield's publications include Understanding and Facilitating Adult Learning (1986), The Skillful Teacher: On technique, trust, and responsiveness in the classroom (1990), and Liberating adult learning and teaching (2005) - three titles from numerous books, chapters, and articles on the subjects of Adult Learning, Critical Reflection, Critical Thinking, and Experiential Learning.
BRUCE E. WAMPOLD is Professor and Chair of the Department of Counseling Psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Wampold was trained in mathematics (BA from the University of Washington) before earning his doctorate in Counseling Psychology (Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara). He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Divisions 12, 17 & 29) and a Diplomate in Counseling Psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology. Currently his work involves understanding counseling and psychotherapy from empirical, historical, and anthropological perspectives. His analysis of empirical evidence, which has led to the development of a contextual model from which to understand the benefits of counseling and psychotherapy, is found in The Great Psychotherapy Debate: Models, methods, and findings (2003, Erlbaum and Associates). He is the author of over 100 books, chapters, and articles related to counseling, psychotherapy, statistics, and research methods and has given lectures on these subjects both nationally and internationally.
MICHAEL W. APPLE is the John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. A former school teacher and past-president of a teachers union, he has worked with educational systems, governments, universities and activist and dissident groups to democratize educational research, policy, and practice. Apple has written extensively on the politics of educational reform and on the relationship between culture and power. His latest work deals with the effects of neo-liberal and neo-conservative policies in education and the larger society and with creating alternatives to these policies and practices. Apple has been selected as one of the 50 most important educational scholars in the 20th Century. His books include Cultural Politics and Education; Democratic Schools; Official Knowledge: Democratic Education in a Conservative Age; Educating the “Right” Way:Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality; and The State and the Politics of Knowledge. The 25th Anniversary of his classic text Ideology and Curriculum has just been published. 
JANE ROLAND MARTIN is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. She is an internationally renowned philosopher whose inquiry in and about education has shaken its conceptual foundations in relation to gender. Martin theorizes a hidden curriculum of gender is embedded in the ideal of the educated person and in the basic concepts of teaching, schooling and education. She has proposed creating a new gender-sensitive educational ideal, re-conceptualizing schooling, advocating for academic transformation, acknowledging the many parts of society that participate in educating children and preserving broadly conceived cultural wealth. She is the author of Explaining, Understanding, and Teaching; Reclaiming a Conversation;The Schoolhome; Changing the Educational Landscape; Coming of Age in Academe; and Cultural Miseducation. She has been honored by the American Educational Research Association and Harvard Graduate School of Education Alumni Association. 
CECIL MISKEL is Professor of Educational Administration and Policy at the School of Education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor . Miskel, an OU College of Education alum, has held academic and administrative positions at the universities of Kansas, Utah and Michigan, including serving as dean of the Graduate School of Education at Utah and of the School of Education at Michigan. Under his leadership, both schools were widely recognized for strengthening their teaching and research programs and significantly advancing their national statures. Miskel, who returned to a full-time professor-ship in 1998, is an expert in school organization and administration and education policy analysis, and his current research and scholar-ship investigates state and national reading policy issues and processes. His research was awarded the William Davis Memorial Award in 1980 and 1983. He served as editor of the Educational Administration Quarterly for the 1987 and 1988 volumes and was a member of its editorial board. He also co-authored six editions of Education Administration: Theory, Research, and Practice , a leading textbook in the field.