Ken Winograd
Associate Professor
201L Furman Hall
541-737-5988
winograk@oregonstate.edu

Ken has been on the faculty of the College of Education since 1990. His interests include literacy teaching, the relationship between literacy and culture, social justice, and research methods. He is also coordinating OSU’s collaboration in the state-wide reading endorsement program.

Ken recently published a book on beginning teaching, a study of his return to the classroom as a teacher during his first sabbatical, 1998-1999. The book is entitled Good Day, Bad Day: Teaching as a High Wire Act (Scarecrow education, 2005).

For a year, ending in June 2006, Ken and his family lived in Costa Rica while he was on sabbatical. Ken did staff development with elementary teachers in literacy pedagogies. He also studied Costa Rican educational systems by visiting schools and talking to educators. Ken’s blog, Complexity in Paradise, documents his explorations.

As a result of Ken’s experiences in Latin America, he has become increasingly uneasy with the inequality of educational opportunities in Oregon, the United states, and globally. He is working actively to engage himself and others in efforts to rethink educational practice so it supports equitable and just learning outcomes for all students.