The Future of Educational Studies

The Editors: George Noblit is Professor and Chair of the Graduate Studies Division in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a former president of the American Educational Studies Association. He specializes in critical race studies, the sociology of knowledge, anthropology of education, and qualitative research methods. His recent publications include The Social Construction of Virtue: The Moral Life of Schools (1996), which won a Critic's Choice Award from the American Educational Studies Association, and Particularities: Collected Essays on Ethnography of Education (Peter Lang, 1999). Beth Hatt-Echeverria is a doctoral candidate at the in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses upon issues of social justice within education. Her primary interests are incarcerated youth, discipline within schools/society, and qualitative research. She has worked with incarcerated youth while also working on projects relating to charter schools, school reform, and kindergarten readiness. She was a 2001-2002 American Educational Research Association Spencer fellow.