Kim Tolley

Associate Professor of School of Education and Leadership
Director, M.Ed. in Curriculum & Instruction and MAT Programs

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Kim Tolley is Associate Professor in the School of Education and Leadership. She teaches courses in qualitative research methods, the social foundations of education, the history of education, and methods of curriculum and instruction. She is author of The Science Education of American Girls: A Historical Perspective (2003), co-editor of Chartered Schools: Two Hundred Years of Independent Academies in the United States, 1727 – 1925 (2002) and editor of Transformations in Schooling: Comparative and Historical Perspectives (2007). Her research has appeared in such journals as the History of Education Quarterly, Teachers College Record, Social Science History, and the Journal of Curriculum Studies. Her research interests include the sociology and culture of teaching and learning in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the history of science and schooling, and the shift from chartered academies to publicly-funded systems of schooling in the United States. She has served on the editorial board of the History of Education Quarterly since 2004 and has served as Program Chair for the History and Historiography Division of the American Educational Research Association (2007-08).

Education History

Ed.D., Social and Cultural Studies, School of Education, U.C. Berkeley, 1996.
Administrative Services Credential, U.S. Berkeley, 1992.
M.A., Educational Research and its Applications, School of Education, U.C. Berkeley,1985.
Multiple-Subject Teaching Credential; Single-Subject Teaching Credential, Art, U.C. Berkeley, 1979.
B. A. University of California Santa Cruz, 1974.

Courses Taught

Research and Interests

Recognitions

Honorable Mention for Best Book by a New Scholar, Divison F, American Educational Research Association: The Science Education of American Girls: A Historical Perspective (New York: Routledge, 2003), 2005.
Honorable Mention for the Outstanding Book Award, History of Education Society: The Science Education of American Girls: A Historical Perspective, 2004.
Outstanding Academic Title awarded to The Science Education of American Girls, Association of College and Research Libraries, 2003.
Archie K. Davis Research Fellowship, North Caroliniana Society,2002.
Outstanding Dissertation Award, U.C. Berkeley,1996.
Henry Barnard Prize, History of Education Society, 1995.
Vice Chancellor for Research Fund Award, U.C. Berkeley, 1994.
Distinction on Oral Qualifying Exam, U.C. Berkeley, with focus on: History of Education; History of Science; Curriculum History, 1993.
Teacher of the Year, Vallejo City Unified School District, 1986.
Teacher of the Year, California Association of the Gifted, 1985.

Professional Affiliations

American Educational Research Association
American Historical Association
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
History of Education Society
Social Science History Association

Workshops

Major Seminars

Community Activities

Publications

“Music Teachers Music Teachers in the North Carolina Education Market, 1800 – 1840: How Mrs. Sambourne Earned a “Comfortable Living for Herself and Her Children,” in Social Science History 32:1 (Spring 2008).
Editor, Transformations in Schooling: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, in press), 2007.
“Introduction to Historical and Comparative Perspectives in Educational Transformations,” in Transformations in Schooling, 2007.
“Reflections on the Historicality of Education Systems,” in Transformations in Schooling, 2007.
Essay Review: “Learning in a Consumers’ Republic,” in History of Education Quarterly, 46 (Summer), 2006.
“Socioeconomic Incentives to Teach in New York and North Carolina: Toward a More Complex Model of Teacher Labor Markets, 1800 – 1850, with Nancy Beadie, in History of Education Quarterly, 46 (Spring 2006).
“A Chartered School in a Free Market: The Case of Raleigh Academy, 1801 - 1823” in Teachers College Record 107 (January 2005): 59 – 88, 2005.
The Science Education of American Girls: A Historical Perspective (New York: Routledge), 2003.
Chartered Schools; Two Hundred Years of Independent Schools and Academies in the United States, 1727-1925, co-edited with Nancy Beadie (New York: Routledge), 2002.
“A School for Every Purpose,” in Chartered Schools (co-authored with Nancy Beadie), 2002.
“Leaving Home to Teach; The Diary of Susan Nye Hutchison, 1815-1841, in Chartered Schools (coauthored with Margaret Nash), 2002.
“Mapping the Landscape of Higher Schooling,” in Chartered Schools, 2002.
“’Many Years Before the Mayflower’: Catholic Academies and the Development of Parish High Schools in the United States, 1727 – 1925,” in Chartered Schools,2002.
“Legacies of the Academy,” in Chartered Schools (coauthored with Nancy Beadie), 2002.
“Reappraisals of the Academy Movement,” coauthored with Nancy Beadie, in History of Education Quarterly 41 (Summer 2001)
“The Rise of the Academies; Continuity or Change?” in History of Education Quarterly 41 (Summer 2001)
Essay Review: “Xena, Warrior Princess, or Judith, Sexual Warrior? The Search for a Liberating, Image of Women’s Power in Popular Culture,” in History of Education Quarterly, 39, no. 3,1999.
“Science for Ladies, Classics for Gentlemen: A Comparative Analysis of the Science Curriculum in Male and Female Secondary Schools in the United States, 1800 - 1850,” in History of Education Quarterly, 35 (Summer 1996)
The Art and Science Connection: Hands-on Activities for Intermediate Students (Menlo Park Addison Wesley), 1994.
The Art and Science Connection: Hands-on Activities for Primary Students (Menlo Park: Addison Wesley),1993.