Faculty Research Overview
>> Marshall, Catherine
Catherine Marshall’s research on the politics of education has revealed unwritten rules in the subcultures of education policy actors. Her studies of the assistant principalship and on barriers to women’s opportunities in leadership have disclosed professional cultures that suppress diversity. On a more hopeful note, her analyses of the politics of gender equity policy in Australia and in the United States have provided insights for scholar/activists advancing feminist agendas in education.
Marshall’s decades of qualitative methodology work ─ both teaching and writing ─ have produced strategies for maximizing the usefulness and quality of such approaches. Currently she is engaged in several research and writing projects, including a chapter on methodology in the Handbook on Gender and Education and a chapter on feminism in the Handbook on Politics of Education. She is currently conducting a major cross-case analysis of educator activism based on a five-year research project which she pursued with five doctoral students, whose dissertations grew out of the project. For her next project focus, Marshall is considering focusing on the assistant principalship or state politics and sexuality politics.