Associate Professor, Doctoral Faculty
Education
Professor Walter earned a BA degree in English and History at Roberts Wesleyan College in upstate New York and taught in the Rochester area for three years. After receiving his Master's in Education from the University of Oregon, he was a consultant with the Michigan Department of Education. He earned his Ph.D. in Educational Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he was on the staff of the Wisconsin R&D Center implementing innovations nationally. Appointed to the faculty at UM-St. Louis in 1976, Dr. Walter has been a research associate for a national study of urban schools, a court appointed expert for the St. Louis desegregation case, other consulting responsibilities, the Presiding Officer of the Faculty Council at UM-St. Louis, a member of several department, school, and campus committees and served two terms on the Francis Howell School District Board of Education. Currently he is the Executive Secretary for the Missouri Professors of Education a position he has had for six years.
Research and Teaching
I have taught several different courses in the Educational Administration program.-- organizational theory, school personnel administration, school public relations, supervision, and the elementary school principalship, the social contexts of education and the economic contexts of education. I use the internet extensively in my teaching using my own website (http://www.umsl.edu/-jwalter) as well as Blackboard. I have also developed a website (http://www.umsl.edu/~mpea) which represents the collaborative efforts of the fourteen (14) educational administration programs in Missouri. The site contains a variety of instructional materials for education administration preparation programs.
I have also been involved extensively in the doctoral program with involvement in more than 25 dissertations and currently involved with an additional nine (9) doctoral studies.
My research
interests have changed over the years from applied research, to program
implementation and evaluation, and now to analysis of social practices
in schools as these are informed by the social sciences. Methodologically,
the changes have moved from statistical forms of research to ethnographic
techniques. Currently, my research uses photography as a data gathering
device for both teacher and student artifacts seeking to find the effects
of the informal or hidden curriculum in elementary schooling. A photo
essay can be viewed at http://www.umsl.edu/~jwalter/PhotoEssay1/MixMesg.html
Representative
Publications
Walter, J. E. & Fazzaro, C. J. "Foucault unmasks the white knight: A postmodern analysis of Alvin Haines the principal." In S. Lee (Ed.), Emerging Perspectives and Images of the Principalship: Unmasking the White Knight. Cresskill, N. J.: Hampton Press, (Chapter submitted to author, S. Lee, who has a contract for publication with Hampton Press.)
Jones, B. and Walter, J.E. "The School Administration Shortage, " Policy Today, Consortium for Educational Policy Analysis, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO (In press in 2001).
Fazzaro, C.J. & Walter, J.E. Schools for Democracy: Lyotard, Dissensus, and Education Policy, International Journal of Leadership in Education: Theory & Practice. (In press in 2001).
Walter, J.E. "The Problematics of Democracy and Schooling," in 1998 NCPEA: Toward the Year 2000, Leadership for Quality Schools, Rodney Muth & Michael Martin, eds. Lancaster, PA, Technomic Publishing Co., Inc. 1998.
Walter, J.E. Renewing the Spirit of Liberty: Preparing Principals for Missouri Schools. Missouri Professors of Educational Administration, St. Louis, MO, August, 1997.
Walter, J. E. "Mixed Messages: The Elementary School Experience." (Curated show of photographic research data on the informal and hidden curriculum in an elementary school) St. Peters' Cultural Arts Center, St. Peters, MO, September, 1996
Walter,
J. E. "Save Me." (Juried show of photographic research data
on the informal and hidden curriculum in an elementary school) Gallary
210, University of Missouri--St. Louis, March, 1995.
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