Daniel Perlstein, professor of education

Daniel Perlstein is a historian whose scholarship promotes the creation of more equitable and humane schools. His research focuses on the relationship of democratic aspirations to social inequalities in American schools and life. His book, “Justice, Justice: School Politics and the Eclipse of Liberalism” (Peter Lang, 2004), explores the place of race and class conflicts in the politics of urban education. His other recent publications include "Thinking and Teaching in a Democratic Way: Hilda Taba and the Ethos of Brown," and "Live the Truth: Politics and Pedagogy in the African-American Movement for Freedom and Liberation," and “Education as Freedom: African American Educational Thought and Ideology: Critical Essays” (2009). He has also written on such topics as gender and school violence and progressive pedagogy. His work has been published in such journals as History of Education Quarterly , Paedagogica Historica , Teachers College Record and Educational Leadership .