Penny Bryan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

E-mail: pbryan@chapman.edu
Phone: 714-744-7658
Fax: 714-744-7035

I received my Doctorate in Educational Leadership: Curriculum and Instruction in 1992 from the University of Pennsylvania.  The University of Pennsylvania is a research one institution and the Graduate School of Education has distinguished itself nationally and internationally in the areas of leadership, literacy, policy and cultural studies.  The GSE is the site of many federal research grants and institutes.  It is also a key center in higher education for application of anthropological and ethnographic methodologies in educational research and critical practitioner research.  My dissertation, passed with distinction, came in second for the award of Dissertation of the Year.  It was a qualitative study, innovative in format, in that it combined traditional ethnography with narrative and interpretation and documented multiple levels of the systemic change process, covering personal, professional and institutional change as well as a literacy staff development partnership between the urban private University and public schools.

I have continued to conduct scholarly work and present in these areas.  I have authored, presented, chaired, and conducted workshops at American Educational Research Association, Association of Moral Education and the International Reading Association as well as numerous local, state, national and international conferences.  I have also collaboratively written and presented with colleagues, graduate students, their students and K-12 educators.  I have served as Senior Editor, Editor and Associate Editor of our statewide academic journal, The Journal of Educational Leadership and Administration: Teaching and Program Development.  I have served as a proposal reviewer numerous times and recently as a manuscript reviewer for an educational book publisher.  I have published book chapters and articles.

Curriculum Vita