Associate Professor
Educational Foundations and Inquiry

562 Education
Office: 419-372-7380
Email: pkubow@bgsu.edu

Education

Ph.D., Comparative and International Development Education,
Educational Policy and Administration
University of Minnesota, 1996

M.A., International Development Education, Educational Policy and Administration
University of Minnesota, 1994

B.A., English Education major, History minor
Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, 1989

Courses Taught

Comparative Education, Comparative Higher Education, Education in a Pluralistic Society

Research Interests        

Comparative and International Education, Democratic Citizenship Education, Indigenous Knowledge, School Curriculum and Educational Policy, Cross-Cultural Pedagogies

Research Awards

National:

Outstanding Citizen Achievement Award, United States Agency for International Development (2003)

Recognized by President Bush and The White House for Humanitarian and Reconstruction Efforts Abroad (2002)

Distinguished Research in Teacher Education Award, Association of Teacher Educators (2001)

Local:

Faculty Scholarship Award, College of Education and Human Development, Bowling Green State University (2007)

The Olscamp Research Award, Bowling Green State University (2003)

Recent Publications

Books:

• Kubow, P.K., & Fossum, P.R. (2007). Comparative education: Exploring issues in international context (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education/Merrill Prentice Hall.

• Kubow, P.K., & Fossum, P.R. (2004). Korean translation by Professor Kim Dong-ewi of text, Comparative education: Exploring issues in international context. Seoul, Korea: Kyoyook Kwahak Sa Publishing.

Journal Articles:

• Kubow, P.K. (2007, August). Teachers' constructions of democracy: Intersections of Western and indigenous knowledge in South Africa and Kenya. Comparative Education Review, 51(3), 307-328.

• Kubow, P.K., & Fischer, J.M. (2006). Democratic concept development: A dialogic process for developing education curriculum. Pedagogies: An International Journal, 1(3), 197-219.

• Kubow, P.K. (2005). African wisdom and democratic classrooms: Kenya and South Africa. Education and Society, 23(3), 21-33.

• Kubow, P.K. (2004, Summer). Complex identities: Negotiating self, educator, and citizen in the Education for Democracy Project. INQUIRY: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines, 23(4), 13-18.

• DeBard, R., & Kubow, P.K. (2002, July). From compliance to commitment: The need for constituent discourse in implementing testing policy. Educational Policy: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Policy and Practice, 16(3), 387-405.

Book Chapters:

• Kubow, P.K., & Fossum, P.R. (2007). Comparative education in the USA. In N. Popov & C.Wolhuter (Eds.), Comparative education as discipline at universities worldwide (pp. 9-18). Sofia, Bulgaria: Bulgarian Comparative Education Society.

• Kubow, P.K. (2004). Teaching for democratic citizenship. In D.R. Walling (Ed.), Public education, democracy, and the common good (pp. 101-107). Bloomington, IN: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation.

• Fossum, P.R., & Kubow, P.K. (2003). Teacher marginalization in comparative education dialogue: Causes, consequences, and possible solutions. In M. Ginsburg & J. Gorostiaga (Eds.), Dialogue among researchers, policymakers, and practitioners: International perspectives on the field of education (pp. 83-94). New York: RoutledgeFalmer.

• Kubow, P.K. (2002). Preparing future secondary teachers for citizenship educator roles: A possible direction for pre-service education in the new century. In Y.C. Cheng, K.T. Tsui, K.W. Chow, & M.M.C. Mok (Eds.), Subject teaching and teacher education in the new century: Research and innovation (pp. 249-271). Hong Kong, SAR: The Hong Kong Institute of Education.

Professional  Services        

• Member, Association of Teacher Educators, Association Development Committee (2006-2009)
• Member, Gail Kelly Award Subcommittee, Comparative and International Education Society (2007-2008)
• Manuscript Reviewer, International Review of Education, Special issue: Quality Education in Africa: Challenges and Prospects (2007)
• United Nations Student Association-South Africa, Invited presentation given on democratic education in South Africa and Kenya, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa (2006)
• Manuscript Reviewer, Heinemann Publishers (2006)
• Manuscript Reviewer, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (2005)