ELIZABETH STRINGER KEEFE
ABOUT ME
Hi! Thanks for visiting. I'm a writer, researcher, and professor who has spent two decades studying the education profession - from teachers, classrooms, and schools to the education reform rhetoric that shapes public opinion about the field. In my work, I support teachers and am focused on raising educator voices in the larger education dialogue, especially policy spaces.
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I live with my husband and our three amazing kids in Massachusetts, and our family splits our time between greater Boston and beloved Cape Cod.
MYÂ WORK
I'm a teacher educator, researcher and professor at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts, where I was founding director of graduate teacher education programs. I've held faculty appointments in higher education for over two decades, but the very beginning of my career was as a public school teacher. I'm still in touch with students, families, and colleagues from that time, and remain grateful for my experiences as an early career educator. They are foundational to the kind of teacher educator, researcher, and writer I have become, and for this reason I maintain a strong connection to the classroom. For now over twenty years, I have been researching teaching and teacher preparation, focused on how we can improve equity and inclusivity in schools. My work is underpinned by a commitment to democratic and social justice education - I believe schools are the places where we learn to be good citizens and neighbors. Care, community, and relationships are central to my work with teachers and schools.
I'm the author of over 20 academic articles, and two books, Remixing the Curriculum (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018) and the award-winning Reclaiming Accountability in Teacher Education (Teachers College Press, 2018). I have two new books forthcoming in 2023.
