Joseph L Soler II
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- Title
- Prof.
- Occupation
- Lecturer
- Discipline(s)
- Education, Sociology, Political Science, History, Literature
- University
- Temple University
- Department
- Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
- Country
- USA
- Town / City
- Philadelphia, PA
- Previous Universities
- Alvernia College, Peirce College, Harvard University
- RESEARCH INTERESTS
- linguistic framing, cognitive linguistics, history of education, educational policy, educational outcomes, teaching, best practices, frames theory, discourse analysis, media and policymaking, educational reform, educational access, adult education, US educational system, comparative education, democracy, philosophy of education, democratic reform, social justice
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I am in the toilsome adjunct world as I work towards my PhD. I am lucky enough to have studied enough fields that I currently teach in education, history, sociology and literature. I conceive of our disiplines as artificially constraining and my multidisciplinary studies have taught me to see a broader perspective in which everyday phenomena and our institutions cannot appear simply the result of one discipline or more than one discipline but rather the interaction of the multiple lens we apply in our work. For example I teach a course in the History of the US Educational system, and make sure to examine Constitutional Law as it applies to education, the sociology of race and sex in the classroom, educational psychology, the philosophy of Enlightenment and Progress, the philosophy of education and educational institutions, comparative international educational systems, and of course the straight or seemingly straight lines of history and its causes and effects.