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Joan Poliner Shapiro

Joan Poliner Shapiro
Professor of Educational Administration

Ritter Hall 238
1301 Cecil B. Moore Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19122-6091

phone: (215) 204-6645
joan.shapiro@temple.edu

Education

  • 1979 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of London, Institute of Education
  • 1978 Ed.D. University of Pennsylvania, Educational Administration
  • 1973 Ed.M. University of Pennsylvania, Social Sciences
  • 1964 B.S. Simmons College, History and Education

Selected Professional Experience

    2001-2004. Chair, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. Temple University
  • 2000-2001; 1991-1996. Associate Dean, College of Education, Temple University
  • 1984-1988. Co-Director, Women's Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania

Areas of Professional Interest

  • Ethics in Education
  • Gender Issues in Education
  • Diversity Issues in Education
  • Participatory Evaluation and Feminist Assessment

Recent Scholarship

Books (authored)

Shapiro, J.P. & Gross, S.J. (2008) Ethical educational leadership in turbulent times: (Re)Solving moral dilemmas. New York: Erlbaum (Taylor & Francis Group).

Shapiro, J.P. and Stefkovich, J.A. (2005). Ethical Leadership and Decision Making in Education: Applying Theoretical Perspectives to Complex Dilemmas. (2nd ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc, Publishers.

Ginsberg, A. Shapiro, J.P., and Brown, S.P. (2004).Gender in Urban Education: Strategies for Student Achievement. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Shapiro, J.P., Sewell, T.E. and DuCette, J.P. (1995) Reframing Diversity in Education. Lancaster,PA: Technomic Publishing Company. (Book reprinted in paperback- Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002).

Selected Articles in Refereed Journals and Edited Books

Shapiro, J.P. & Hassinger, R.E. (2007).Using case studies, framed as ethical dilemmas, for the development of moral literacy: Toward educating for social justice. Journal of Educational Administration, 45(4), pp. 451-470.

Caldwell, C., Shapiro, J.P. & Gross, S.J. (2007). Ethical leadership in higher education admissions: Equality versus equity, The Journal of College Admissions,195, 14-19.

Shapiro, J.P. (2006). Ethics and social justice within the new DEEL: Addressing the paradox of control/democracy. International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning December, 2006, 10(32), Retrieved on December 18, 2006, from http://www.ucalgary.ca/%7Eiejll/volume10/shapiro.htm

Gross, S.J. & Shapiro, J.P. (2006). The design team faces a new hurdle: Time to keep it real. In Gross, S.J., Leadership Mentoring: Maintaining School Improvement in Turbulent Times (pp.85 – 99), Lanham, MA: Rowan and Littlefield.

Shapiro, J.P. (2006) Ethical decision making in turbulent time: Bridging theory with practice to prepare authentic educational leaders. Values and Ethics in Educational Administration, Winter, 4(2): pp.1-8.

Gross, S.J. & Shapiro, J.P. (2005). Our new era requires a New DEEL: Towards Democratic ethical educational leadership. UCEA Review, Fall, pp.1-4.

Gross, S.J. and Shapiro, J.P. (2004). Using multiple ethical paradigms and turbulence theory in response to administrative dilemmas. International Studies in Educational Administration, 32(2), pp.47-62.

Shapiro, J.P., Ginsberg, A. and Brown, S.P.(2004). The ethic of care in urban schools: Family and community involvement. Leading and Managing, 9(2), pp.45-50.

Stefkovich, J.A. and Shapiro, J.P. (2003). Deconstructing communities: Educational leaders and their ethical decision-making processes. In Begley, P. & Johansson, O. (eds.). The ethical dimensions of school leadership (pp.69-106). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Gross, S.J., Shaw, K., and Shapiro, J.P. (2003). Deconstructing accountability through the lens of democratic philosophies: Toward a new analytic framework. The Journal of Research for Educational Leadership. 1(3), pp.5-27.

Gross, S.J. and Shapiro, J.P. (2002).Towards ethically responsible leadership in a new era of high stakes accountability. In Perrault, G. and Lunenberg, F. The Changing World of School Administration. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., pp. 256-266.