Ron Scapp
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Ron Scapp is a noted American
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 educator and author
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. His work focuses on urban education, educational leadership and policy, and teacher empowerment. He also writes on topics as varied as homelessness, American theater and continental philosophy.

Career

Dr. Ron Scapp is the founding director of the Graduate Program in Urban and Multicultural Education at the College of Mount Saint Vincent
College of Mount Saint Vincent
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 in the Bronx
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, where he is professor of humanities and teacher education . He also is a fellow of the National Education Policy Center at University of Colorado, Boulder, a member of the Education Policy Alliance and a senior associate and founding member of the United Federation of Teacher’s Urban Educators Forum in New York City. He is also a member of the NYC/UFT Teacher Center policy board. Dr. Scapp was named Interim President of The National Association for Ethnic Studies in July 2011 .

Dr. Scapp has Ph.D.
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 in philosophy
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 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook
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, where he studied continental philosophy, the history of philosophy and concentrated on race, class and gender issues. He is a founding member of Group Thought, a philosophy collective based in Red Hook, Brooklyn
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.

Ron Scapp continues to explore and expand the connections to be made among education, politics and culture.

Publications and Work

  • Teaching Values: Critical Perspectives on Education, Politics and Cultural (Routledge, 2003) .
  • Managing to be Different: Educational Leadership as Critical Practice (Routledge, 2006).
  • Co-editor of Hot Topics: Contemporary Philosophy and Culture (SUNY Press, 2006) .
  • Co-editor of Positions: Education, Politics and Culture (Routledge, 2005).
  • Series editor of Dialogue with Teachers (UFT/Teacher Center, 2000).
  • Co-editor "Fashion Statements: On Style, Appearance and Reality" (Palgrave, 2010)


Praising his 2006 publication, Managing to be Different: Educational Leadership as Critical Practice , Henry A. Giroux notes that Ron Scapp

“Offers a view of educational leadership that is as empowering as it is insightful… Scapp develops a theory of leadership that is not only empowering and critical but takes seriously the relationship between leadership and the imperatives of a substantive democracy. Every educator as well as everyone interested in education should read this book.”


In addition, he has collaborated with many other scholars. Most notably with writer and critic bell hooks
Bell hooks
Gloria Jean Watkins , better known by her pen name bell hooks, is an American author, feminist, and social activist....

[sic] in her 1994 publication Teaching to Transgress: Education as the practice of freedom.

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