Barbara Tye, Ed.D.
Professor Emerita

E-mail: tye@chapman.edu 
Phone: 714-997-6845
Fax: 714-744-7035

I attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where I majored in Political Science and Theatre; and the University of Illinois in Urbana, where I completed a B.A. in Speech Education, an M.A. in Central Asian Studies, and teaching credentials in Speech and Social Studies.  Following a Fulbright year collecting folklore in Afghanistan, I headed the Creative Writing department in a Title III after-school arts program in Dayton, Ohio.

Over the next ten years I taught high school, helped to develop the IGE High School model at the Charles F. Kettering Foundation/IDEA, worked as a consultant to a small school system in South Carolina that was implementing the IGE model, taught at Furman University, and attended Texas Tech University, where I completed an EdD in curriculum and foundations in 1977.

In 1977 I also joined the research staff of John Goodlad’s Study of Schooling project in West Los Angeles, where my focus was the analysis of curriculum documents and the lives of students as revealed by study data.  When the project ended in 1980, Ken Tye and I married and moved overseas, where for the next two years we worked jointly on education projects in Norway, Indonesia, and Dubai.  While there, I finished my first book, a report of the findings of the Goodlad study at the high school level: Multiple Realities: A Study of 13 American High Schools.

Resettled in southern California, in 1983 I joined the Chapman faculty as head of secondary teacher preparation.  I’ve been here ever since, serving as Dean from 1989-1993 and, in recent years, as coordinator of the Master's degree in Education program.

My primary scholarly interests include K-12 global education (Global Education: A Study of School Change, SUNY Press, 1992);  resistance to educational change (Hard Truths: Uncovering the Deep Structure of Schooling, Teachers College Press, 2000); curriculum as a mechanism of social class structure; and the changing popular views of teaching and schooling in American society, as revealed in literature, film, and art (in progress).

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