Jayminn Sanford DeShields

Jayminn Sulir Sanford-DeShields, Ed.D.
Assoc. Professor Elementary and Early Childhood Education
Dept. of Teaching & Learning

Ritter Hall 345
1301 Cecil B. Moore Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19122-6091

phone: (215) 204-5205
jsanford@astro.temple.edu

Education

  • Ed.D. Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Cambridge MA
  • Ed.M. Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Cambridge MA
  • M.P.S Pratt Institute School of Art and Design, Brooklyn, NY
  • B.A. Adelphi University, NY

Areas of Professional Interest

  • Collaboration in Education
  • Urban Education and Educational Reform
  • Multicultural Education
  • Teacher Education
  • Community Education and Lifelong Learning

Recent Scholarship

Parker, Kelly, Sanford (1998). The Urban Context of Schools and Education : Community, Committment to Change. Educational Theory v48:1, 123-137.

Sanford, Mahar (1997). Retrospective of an Urban Based Teacher Education Program: Its Conception, Development and Implementation for Coexistence with a Traditional Model. Contemporary Education v67:4 213-220.

Nevarez, Sanford, Parker (1997). Do the Right Thing: Tranforming Multicultural Education in Teacher Preparation. Journal for a Just and Caring Education v3:2, 160-179.

Sanford (1995). Lessons of Leadership: A Critique of the Knowledge Base in Educational Leadership. (Eds) Knowledge Base in Educational Leadership: Multiple Perspectives Suny:Buffalo.