Stephen Tomlinson

Chair, Educational Leadership, Policy, and Technology Studies
Professor, Social Foundations of Education
301C Graves Hall
(205)-348-9820
Stomlins@bamaed.ua.edu
Apppointed 1991

Recent Courses Taught:

AEL 681 Ethics and Education
BEF 644: Philosophy of Science and Educational Research

Areas of Research:

History of Education
Philosophy of Education

Academic Degrees:

Ph.D. Foundations of Education, University of Florida, 1991
M.A. Philosophy, University of Florida, 1986
M.A. Philosophy of Education, University of London, 1979
B.Ed. Mathematics and Education, University of London, 1977

Professional Experiences:

Chair, Educational Leadership, Technology, and Policy Studies, College of Education, University of Alabama, August 2003-present

Coordinator, Programs in Educational Foundations and Educational Leadership, College of Education, University of Alabama, August 2000-August 2003

Professor, Social Foundations of Education, College of Education, The University of Alabama, August 2005

Associate Professor, Foundations of Education, College of Education, University of Alabama, August 1997-June 2005

Assistant Professor in Foundations of Education, College of Education, University of Alabama, August 1991-1997

Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham, summer 1993 and summer 1994

Teaching Associate, Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, 1985-1991

Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, 1980-1985

Instructor, Department of Mathematics, Santa Fe Community College, Gainesville FL, 1983-1989

High School Mathematics Teacher, Rydens School. Walton on Thames, Surrey, Great Britain, 1978-1980

Selected Publications:

Stephen Tomlinson, Head Masters: Phrenology, Secular Education, and Nineteenth-Century (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2005).

Stephen Tomlinson and Kevin Windham, “Northern Piety and Southern Honor: Alva Woods and the Problem of Discipline at the University of Alabama, 1831-1837” Perspectives in the History of Higher Education (accepted for publication in 2006).

Stephen Tomlinson, “Thomas Jefferson, Ideologue,” Curriculum History Annual: 2003 Lynn M. Burlbaw, (Ed.) University of Texas Press

Stephen Tomlinson and Judith German, “Black and White Ideals of Teaching” The Journal of the Southeastern Regional Association of Teacher Educators 2002, 11(1); 20-280.

Stephen Tomlinson, “Robert Owen and the Psychological Monitor” Curriculum History Annual 2002 Lynn M. Burlbaw, (Ed.) University of Texas Press

Selected Presentations:

“Foundations as Therapy,” AEAS, Charlottesville, VA., November 2005.

“Moral Order and Southern Honor,” HES, Kansas City, MO., November 2004.

“Accepting ‘No Excuses,’ Providing no Answers: A Radical Critique of a Rightist Reading of the Achievement Gap” AESA, Kansas City MO., November 2004.

“Helvétius, Destutt de Tracy, and Thomas Jefferson: Education and the Government of the Mind” HES, Chicago, IL, November 2003.

“Thomas Jefferson, Ideologue” SSCH, Chicago, IL, April 2003.