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GEORGE W. NOBLIT CURRICULUM VITA

PERSONAL DATA Date of Birth: November 20, 1948

Home Address: 8719 Lindley Mill Rd., Snow Camp, NC 27349

Place of Birth: Meadville, Pennsylvania

Current Position: Joseph R. Neikirk Distinguished Professor of Sociology of Education

Business Address: School of Education, 2l2A Peabody Hall, CB# 3500 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3500 (919) 962-1395 [email protected]

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Doctor of Philosophy: University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 1973. Major area: Sociology. Dissertation Title: "Delinquency and Access to Success: A Study of Consequences of the Delinquency Label." 140 pp.

Master of Science: University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 1971. Major area: Sociology

Bachelor of Arts: Hiram College, Hiram College, Ohio, 1970. Majors: Sociology, General Science

AREAS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

School Reform Race Equity Sociology of Education Sociology of Knowledge Qualitative Research Methodology Policy and Evaluation Research Complex Organizations

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2001 Spanish Language Immersion, Costa Rica (Fall)

1999 (March) Visiting Scholar, Department of Special Education, University of South Florida

1994 (Feb.) Scholar-in-Residence, College of Education, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va. 1990 Visiting Professor, Faculty of Philology of English, University of Granada, Granada, Spain 1984 Visiting Lecturer, Massey University, Palmerston, New Zealand

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1979- Associate Professor to Professor, School of Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1978-79 Senior Fellow, Desegregation Studies Team, The National Institute of Education, U. S. Department of Education 1973-79 Assistant Professor to Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Sociology, Memphis State University (on leave

1978-79) 1976 Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Social Science, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas (summer) 1975 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Master's Program in Urban Learning, George Washington University (summer)

SERVICE TO UNC 2008 Search Committee for the Director of the Institute of African American Research 2007- 10 Administrative Board of the Graduate School 2005- Advisory Board for the University Program in Cultural Studies 2004-7 Advisory Board for the Southern Oral History Program 2003-4 Coordinator, Positionality in Qualitative Research Faculty Working Group, Odom Institute for Research in the Social

Sciences 2000 -2003 Advisory Board, Center for Studies of the South 1998-1999 IRSS Short Course, Writing Qualitative Research Proposals

1996-1999 Chair, Post-Critical Ethnography Working Group, Institute for Research on the Social Sciences 1996-1998 Administrative Board of the Graduate School 1994- Advisory Board, Southern Oral History Program 1995- Advisory Board, University Program in Cultural Studies 1992-93 Chair, Southern Studies Working Group, Institute for Research on the Social Sciences 1992-93 Chair, Documentary Studies Working Group, Institute for Research on the Social Sciences 1991-95 Chair, Committee on Black Faculty 1988-91 Chair, Textual Analysis Faculty Group, Institute for Research on the Social Sciences 1985-91 Committee on Black Faculty 1981-83 Housing Advisory Committee

SERVICE TO THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION 2011-12, Chair, Culture, Curriculum and Change Area.


2011, Chair, Recruitment Committee for Dr. Sherick Hughes. 2011, Chair, Spousal Hire Committee for Dr. Juan Carrillo. 2009-11, Board Member, Redefining Futures for African American Males. A Durham Public Schools and Durham Association of Educators Initiative. Funded by the National Education Association Foundation. 2009 Chair, The Futures Committee 2007-8 Dean’s Search Committee 2007-8 ESL Search Committee

2007- Advisory Board of the Research Triangle Schools Partnership

2005-6 Orange County/ Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools Resources Study 2005-8 Chair, Culture, Curriculum and Change Area 2002-7 Arts Integration Working Group, Research Triangle schools Partnership

2002-3 Head, ESL Search Committee 2003 Dean’s Search Committee

1999-2005 Chair, Graduate Studies Division

1998-1999 Chair, Culture, Curriculum, and Change Program

1997- 2000 M.A.T. Committee 1996-1998 Chair, Social Foundations of Education Program 1996- 2000 Professional Development School Committee for Forestview Elementary School 1995-96 Dean’s Search Committee 1995- 1999 Elementary Education Committee 1994-96 Chair, Committee on Teaching 1992- 1998 Spaulding Lecture Committee 1991-94 Vice-Chair, Faculty Advisory Committee 1990 Instructional Council, School of Education 1987-95 Protection of Human Subjects Committee 1987-88 Faculty Planning Committee 1986-88 Academic Standards Committee


1986-87 Internal Leave Committee 1985-87 Teacher Education Committee 1980-83 Chair, Graduate Program of Educational Administration and Supervision 1983 Program Evaluation Committee 1981-82 Ira Gordon Memorial Lecture Committee 1980-82 Director, Field-Based Certificate Program (Superintendent's Certificate), Moore County, North Carolina 1980-81 Internal Leave Committee 1979-82 Teacher Education Faculty

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION 2011 Editorial Board. Creative Education. 2009- Life Accomplishment Award Committee, AERA, Div. G 2010- Critic’s Choice Award Committee, AESA 2005-7 Founding Member and Steering Committee Member, Mountain Music Traditions Association 2005- Book series editor, Breakthroughs in the Sociology of Education, Sense Publishers 2005- Editorial Board, Educational Foundations 1995- Book series editor, Understanding Social Justice, Education and Policy, Hampton Press 2001-3 Outstanding Book Award Committee, AERA 2001 - Editorial Board, Journal of Latinos and Education 2000 - Editorial Board, Journal of Teacher Education 1999-2000 Council of Advisers, North Carolina Child Advocacy Institute 1999- 2000 Board of Trustees, ARTS of North Carolina

1999- Editorial Board, Qualitative Research

1999 External Reviewer, University of North Carolina-Greensboro 1999-2000 Executive Council, America Educational Studies Association 1998-1999 President, America Educational Studies Association 1997-8 Vice-President, American Educational Studies Association

1996-98 School Improvement Grants Panel Member, Office of Educational Reform, N.C. Department of Public Instruction 1996-1998 Program Committee, American Educational Studies Association 1996-2001 Editor, The High School Journal 1995- Reviewer, Educational Researcher; Urban Education; American Educational Research Journal 1992- Reviewer, Anthropology and Education Quarterly


1992- Co-Editor of book series, Understanding Education and Policy, Hampton Press. 1992 Chair, R. Freeman Butts Lecture Committee, American Educational Studies Association 1991- Co-Editor, The Urban Review 1990 Chair, Nominations Committee, American Educational Studies Association 1988-91 Co-Editor of book series for Ablex, Inc. titled: Interpretive Perspectives on Education and Policy 1988-94 Program Chair, North Carolina Professors of Foundations of Education 1987 Program Committee, American Educational Studies Association 1986-90 Review Editor, Symbolic Interaction 1985-86 Nominations Committee, Sociology of Education Section, American Sociological Association 1983-91 Editorial Advisory Board, Youth and Society 1983-84 Membership Committee, Southern Sociological Society 1981 Editorial Board, The Urban Review 1978 Guest Editor, Quarterly Journal of Corrections, Winter. Special issue on women and crime.

HONORS Impact Award, Black alumni of the UNC School of Education, 2011 Invited Lecturer, The arts : A key to success in education reform. College of Arts and Media, U. of Colorado at Denver , April 2010. Keynote Speaker, Valuing A+: The A+ Schools program in NC . Department of Cultural Resources . A + School’s Conference. Raleigh,. NC ,Nov. 2010 Faculty Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring, The Graduate School, UNC-CH, 2008 2007 Critics Choice award, American Educational Studies Association for book: Late to Class Jones Lecturer, College Of Education, Texas Technological University, September 2003 Fellow at Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, UNC-CH, 2001-5 Dina Feitelson Award for Outstanding Research, International Reading Association, 2000 President, American Educational Studies Association, 1998-1999 Vice-President, American Educational Studies Association, 1997-98

1997 Critics Choice award, American Educational Studies Association for book: The Social Construction of Virtue Phi Delta Kappa Pi Gamma Mu Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1983 Outstanding Young Men of America, 1982 International Honor Book, 1985 International Who's Who Among Intellectuals, 1982 International Who's Who in Education, 1980 Educational Policy Fellow; George Washington University (1978-79) Guest Editor, Quarterly Journal of Corrections, Winter 1978. Special issue on women and crime National Institute of Mental Health Research Methodology Traineeship, (1971- 73)


PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

American Educational Research Association American Educational Studies Association American Sociological Association American Anthropological Association

FUNDED RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2011-2012 Project Director and Co-Principal Investigator, Mentoring Relationships and Social Mobility: An evaluation of the Blue Ribbon Mentor-Advocate Program. $70,000 funded by the Chapel Hill Carrboro Public

Schools. 1998-2003; 2006-10 Principal Investigator, Workplace and Community Transition Training for Incarcerated Youth Offenders, $250,000 (to

date) study funded by the North Carolina Department of Correction.

2000-2006 Co-Principal Investigator, Roads Not Taken: Education and Race in the Post-Brown South., a five year, $264,000 study

funded by the Spencer Foundation

2002-2003 Principal Investigator, Sustainability of the A+ School Program, a 18 month , $112,000 study funded by the Ford Foundation

2002-2004 Co-Principal Investigator, Evaluation of Comer (School Development Program) Comprehensive School Reform

Initiatives, a three year, $449,995 study funded by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement and Yale University

1999-2000 Project Director and Co-Principal Investigator, District Context and Comer Schools, a one year, $114,000 study funded by

the Rockefeller Foundation

1999-2002 Principal Investigator, Evaluation of North Carolina’s Charter Schools, a two-year, $350,000 study funded by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction

1998-99 Principal Investigator, Second Case Study of Two of North Carolina’s School-Based Health Centers, a four month, $30,000 study funded by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Women’s and Children’s Health.

1997-98 Project Director and Co-Principal Investigator, The Comer Success Study, $105,000. The Rockefeller Foundation. 1997 Principal Investigator, Pilot Case Studies of Two of North Carolina’s School-Based Health Centers, a four month, $25,000

study funded by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Women’s and Children’s Health.

1997 Principal Investigator, Alternative Schools Case Studies Project, $10,000. North Carolina Department of Public

Instruction. 1995-2001 Project Director and Co-Principal Investigator, Valuing A+: The Evaluation of the A+ Schools Program, $750,000. Kenan

Institute of the Arts. 1994-2002 Investigator, Smart Start Evaluation, $2, 600,000. North Carolina Department of Human Resources. 1994-95 Principal Investigator, WINNERS I Evaluation, $21,000, Glaxo Inc. and the North Carolina School of Science and

Mathematics.


1994-95 Principal Investigator, Latino Cultures and Services Study, $11,108. Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center Innovative Research Grant.

1993 Co-principal investigator, Tracking Policy Study. A $12,000 study funded by North Carolina Legal Services, Inc. 1993 Project Director, What Was Lost: The Cultural Consequences of School Closings. A $20,000 study funded by the North

Carolina Humanities Council. 1992-93 Principal Investigator, Interagency Collaboration Policy Study. A $100,000 study funded by the North Carolina

Department of Public Instruction. 1990-91 Co-Principal Investigator, Caring and Student Attachment Study. A $22,500 grant from the O. Lilly Endowment. 1981-83 Advisory Board Member, Knowledge Use Capacity Study. Ron Wiegerink, P.I. NIE funded. 1981-82 Co-Principal Investigator, Teaching Learning Center Study. Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools. A $20,000 research contract

funded by Far West Laboratory and NIE. 1979-82 Research Associate, A Social Theory Based Framework for Evaluating Staff Development Programs. A two year

study funded by NIE. Phil Schlechty, P.I. 1979 Author, Issues for Research in the Second Generation of School Desegregation. Paper commissioned by NIE. 1978-79 Senior Fellow Desegregation Studies Team, The National Institute of Education. 1978-79 Advisory Board Member, School Violence and Fear of Violence Study, (LEAA funded), Social Action Research Center,

San Rafael, CA. 1978 Author, Ethnographic Synthesis Project, Murray Wax, Principal Investigator. (NIE contract #G78-0046). Analyzed data

from six ethnographic studies of desegregated schools and wrote a paper on alienation of lower class Black students. 1977-78 Research Coordinator, Center for Life Cycles Studies, Memphis State University. 1977 Field Researcher, Safe Schools Study, Research Triangle Institute and the National Institute of Education Conducted

ethnographic studies of two high schools for the Safe School Study funded by NIE. 1975-78 Project Director and Co-Principal Investigator, Interracial Education Project, Memphis State University, Memphis,

Tennessee Conducted an ethnography of the process of interracial education in a desegregated Memphis high school under a $105,000 two and a half year contract from the National Institute of Education.

1974-75 Project Director and Principal Investigator, Drug Abuse and the Public Employer Survey, Washington, D.C., an $85,000

grant for survey and case studies of employment programs for people with histories of drug abuse from the Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention and the U.S. Civil Service Commission.

1971-73 National Institute of Mental Health Methodology Traineeship, University of Oregon. 1971-72 Research Associate, Survey of Campus Governance Programs, University of Oregon. 1970-71 Research Assistant, Institute of Community Studies, University of Oregon.

TRAINING GRANTS

2004-8 World Bank Senior Manager Training Program. A joint Duke University/UNC program funded by the World Bank.


1985-90 Faculty, Grant for Faculty Development in General Internal Medicine and General Pediatrics. Funded by Health and

Human Services, Public Health Services. 1981-90 Faculty, Grant for Family Practice Fellows Program (for junior faculty of Departments of Family Medicine). Funded by

Bureau of Health and Human Services. PUBLICATIONS Books

G. Noblit, H. Corbett, B. Wilson and M. McKinney. (2009) Creating and Sustaining Arts-Based School Reform: The A+ Schools Program. New York: Routledge.

W. Malloy, C. Malloy and G. Noblit. (2008) Scaling Up Systemic Reform. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. W. Pink and G. Noblit (eds.) (2007). The International Handbook of Urban Education. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer. (2 volumes). J. Van Galen and G. Noblit (eds.) (2007). Late to Class: Social Class and Schooling in the New Economy. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. 2007 Critics

Choice award, American Educational Studies Association. W. Pink and G. Noblit (eds.) (2005). Cultural Matters: Lessons Learned from Field Studies from Several Leading School Reform Strategies.

Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. G. Noblit, S. Flores and E. Murillo (eds.) (2004). Postcritical Ethnography. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. G. Noblit and B. Hatt (eds.) (2003). The Future of Educational Studies. New York: Peter Lang. G.Noblit, W. Malloy and C. Malloy (eds.) (2001). The Kids Got Smarter. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press G. Noblit (1999). Particularities: Collected Essays on Ethnography and Education. New York: Peter Lang. A. Adkins, C. Awsumb, G. Noblit, and P. Richards (eds.) (1999). Improving Services for Family and Children: The Need, Practice and

Possibilities of Interagency Collaboration. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. G. Noblit and V. Dempsey (1996). The Social Construction of Virtue: The Moral Life of Schools. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 225 pp. Critic’s

Choice Award from the American Educational Studies Association. W. Pink and G. Noblit (eds.) (1995). Continuities and Contradictions: The Future of The Sociology of Education. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press,

pp, 394 G. Noblit and R. Hare (1988). Meta-Ethnography: Synthesizing Qualitative Studies. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 88 pp. G. Noblit and W. Pink (eds.) (1987). Schooling in Social Context: Qualitative Studies. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 332 pp. G. Noblit and B. Johnston (eds.) (1982). The School Principal and School Desegregation. Springfield, IL: Charles Thomas Press, 294 pp.

Articles Swain, A. and Noblit, G. (2011). Education in a punitive society: An introduction. The Urban Review 43:4,465-475.


Anders, Allison and Noblit, G. (2011). Understanding effective highere eudcationa programs in prisons: Considerations from the Incarcerated Individuals Program in North Carolina. Journal of Correctional Education. 62:2, 77-93.

Noblit, G. and Jay, M. (2010). Against the majoritarian story of school reform: the Comer schools evaluation as a critical race counternarrative. New Directions in Evaluation, No. 127, 71-82.

Noblit, G. and Mendez, J. (2008). Legacies of Brown versus Board: An introduction to the special issue. The Urban Review,40 (1), 1-4.

Jennings, M. Noblit, G, Brayboy, B. and Cozart, S. (2007). Accountability and abdication: School reform and urban school districts in the era of accountability. Educational Foundations, 21:3-4, 27-38.

Noblit, G., Hwang, S., Seiler, G. and Elmsky, R. (2007). Forum: toward culturally responsive discourses in science education. Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2:105-117. Noblit, G. (2006). The Problem of the a priori for Education: Education as the Practice of Knowing. The Journal of Thought. 41(4), 61-65. Noblit, G. and S. Bettez (2004). Powers of the Arts in Education. The Journal of Thought. 39(4) 7-14.

Thorne, S.; Jensen, L.; Kearney, M. .; Noblit, G. ; Sandelowski, M. (2004). Qualitative metasynthesis: Reflections on methodological orientation and ideological agenda. Qualitative Health Research, 14 (10), 1342-1365,.

Noblit, G. (2002). The Walls of Jericho: The Struggle for an American Educational Studies Association. Educational Studies 33(1) 6-23. Fitzgerald, Jill and George Noblit. (2000). Balance in the Making: Learning to Read in an Ethnically Diverse First-Grade Classroom. Journal of Educational Psychology 92(1) 3-22 McKinney, Monica et al. (2000) The Arts in Educational Reform: Wise Practices in the North Carolina A+ Schools Program. Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century. North Carolina Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

Fitzgerald, J. and Noblit, G. (1999). About Hopes, Aspirations, and Uncertainty: First-Grade English Language Learners’ Emergent Reading. Journal of Literacy Research, 31(2),133-182. Noblit, G. (1999). The Possibilities of Postcritical Ethnographies: An Introduction to this Issue. Educational Foundations, 13 (1), 3-6. J. Fitzgerald and G. Noblit (1997). Rituals of Returning. The Urban Review., 29:4, 297-303. Special Issue on Rituals in Education, edited by R.

Quantz and J. Ensign. G.W. Noblit, D.L. Rogers, and B.M. McCadden (1995). In the Meantime: The Possibilities of Caring. Phi Delta Kappan, 76:9, 680-685. J. Danielewicz, D. Rogers and G. Noblit (1996) Children’s Discourse Patterns and Power Relations in Teacher-Led and Child-Led Sharing Time.

Qualitative Studies In Education, 9:3, pp. 311-331. V. Dempsey and G. Noblit (1993). Cultural Ignorance and School Desegregation: Reconstructing a Silenced Narrative. Educational Policy, 7:3,

pp. 318-339. G. Noblit (1993). Power and Caring. American Educational Research Journal, 30:1, pp. 23-38. V. Dempsey and G. Noblit (1993). The Demise of Caring in an African American Community: One Consequence of School Desegregation. The

Urban Review, 25:1, pp. 47-61. M. Philipsen and G. Noblit (1993). Tricky Business: Corporate Conceptions of Educational Reform. The High School Journal, 76:4, pp. 260-272. G. Noblit and V. Dempsey (1992). Creating Organizationally Effective Desegregated Schools. Equity and Excellence, 25:2-4, pp. 113-120.

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G. Noblit, B. Berry and V. Dempsey (1991). Political Responses to Reform: A Comparative Case Study. Education and Urban Society, 23:4, pp. 379-395.

G. Noblit and M. Courtney (1991). School History and School Improvement: A Collaborative Project. Record in Educational Administration and

Supervision, 11:2, pp. 45-48. G. Noblit and J. Engel (1991). The Holistic Injunction: An Ideal and Moral Imperative for Qualitative Research. Qualitative Health Research 1:1,

pp. 123-180. G.W. Noblit (1990). The Question Is, “Who’s Working on What?” The Interpreter, 1:3: pp.5-6. W. Pryzwansky and G. Noblit. (1990). Understanding and Improving Consultation Practice: The Qualitative Case Study Approach. Journal of

Educational and Psychological Consultations, 1:4, pp. 293-308. D. Rogers, G. Noblit and P. Ferrell (1990). Action Research as an Agent for Developing Teacher's Communicative Competence. Theory into

Practice 29:3, pp. 179-l85. G. Noblit and D. Eaker (1989). Teacher Planning as Appropriation of Power. High School Journal 72:4, pp. 161-167. J. Engel and G. Noblit (1989). Organizational Development, Critical Theory, and Purposive Inquiry: An alternative for Health Care Educators.

Journal of Healthcare Education and Training 4:2, pp. 28-31. A. Smith and G. Noblit (1989). The Idea of Qualitative Research in Medical Education. Teaching and Learning in Medicine 1:2, 10l-108. G.W. Noblit (1988). Career Biography of an Applied Sociologist of Educational Administration. Case Analysis, 2:3, pp. 241-244. J. Van Galen, G. Noblit and R. Hare (1988). The Art and Science of Interviewing Kids: The Group Interview in Evaluation Research. National

Forum of Applied Educational Research Journal 1:2, pp. 74-81. J. Van Galen and G. Noblit (1986). What is Not Learned About Careers: The Special Case of Black Male Adolescents. American Middle School

Education, 9:4, pp. 7-13. G. Noblit (1986). The Legacy of Education in the Social Sciences: The Case of Organizational Theory. Issues in Education, IV:I, Summer, pp. 42-

51. G. Noblit (1986). Not Seeing the Forest for the Trees: The Failure of Synthesis for the Desegregation Ethnographies. Case Analysis, 2:2, Summer,

pp. 81-96. B. Johnson and G. Noblit (1986). The Marketability of Magnet Middle Schools. American Middle School Education, 9:1, Winter, pp. 37-42. G. Noblit (1986) What’s Missing from the National Agenda for School Reform? Teacher Professionalism and Local Initiative. The Urban Review,

18:1, pp. 40-51. G. Noblit (1985). Cultural Change and Political Strategy in School Administration, Delta 35, May, pp. 19-23. P. Short and G. Noblit (1985). Missing the Mark in In-School Suspension: An Explanation and Proposal, NASSP Bulletin, November, pp. 112-

116. P. Short and G. Noblit (1985). Teacher Philosophy and Attitude: Precursor to Effective Middle School Programs?, Record in Educational

Administration and Supervision, 6:1, pp. 24-26. G. Noblit (1985). Applied Sociologist of Educational Administration, Sociological Practice, 5:2, and pp. 237-248. B. Berry, G. Noblit, and R.D. Hare (1985). A Qualitative Critique of Teacher Labor Market Studies, The Urban Review, 17:2, pp. 98-110.


G. Noblit and P. Short (1985). Rhetoric and Reality in In-school Suspension Programs, The High School Journal, 68:2, pp. 59-64. G. Noblit (1984). The Prospects of an Applied Ethnography: A Sociology of Knowledge Interpretation, Educational Evaluation and Policy

Analysis, Winter, pp. 95-101. C. Newman and G. Noblit (1982). Collaborative Research: A Staff Development Experience, Journal of Staff Development,, pp. 119-129. G. Noblit (1982). School Desegregation, Legitimacy and Middle Schools; Implications for the 1980's, America Middle School Education, 5:l, pp.

13-17. G. Noblit (1981). The Holistic Alternative in Policy Research, The High School Journal, 65:2, pp. 48-49. G. Noblit and T. Collins (1981). Cui Bono: White Students in the Desegregation Process The Urban Review, pp. 205-215. G. Noblit (1980). Issues for Research in the Second Generation of School Desegregation, Integrated Education, pp. 62-66. G. Noblit and G. Alpert (1979). Advocacy and Rehabilitation in Women's Prisons. Law and Policy Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 207-222. G. Noblit and T. Collins (1978). School Flight and School Policy: Desegregation and Resegregation in the Memphis City Schools. The Urban

Review, fall, pp. 203-212. T. Collins, G. Noblit, and D. Ciscel (1978). Retail Socialization: The Preparation of Black High School Students for Employment in Business.

Integrated Education, 14:2, pp. 12-l6. S. Bazemore and G. Noblit (1978). Class Origins and Academic Achievement: A Critique of the Cultural Deprivation perspective. Urban

Education, pp. 345-360. G. Noblit (1978). Sex, Research and Assumptions: Some Special Concerns. Quarterly Journal of Corrections. 1:4, pp. 3-4. G. Noblit and T. Collins (1978). Order and Disruption in a Desegregated High School Setting. Crime and Delinquency, pp. 277-289. Also in

Theoretical Approaches to School Crime. Hacksensack, NJ: National Council on Crime and Delinquency. W. Pink and G. Noblit (1977). The Consequences of Labeling for Early Adult Careers. Education, 98:1, 32-40. G. Alpert, G. Noblit, and J. Wiorkowski (1977). A Comparative Look at Prisonization: Sex and Prison Culture. Quarterly Journal of Corrections,

1:2, pp. 29-34. G. Noblit (1976). The Adolescent Experience and Delinquency: School versus Sub-cultural Effects. Youth and Society, pp. 27-44. G. Noblit and J. Burcart (1976). Women and Crime: 1960-1970.: Social Science Quarterly, pp. 650-657. G. Noblit and J. Burcart (1975). Ethics, Powerless People, and Methodologies for the Study of 'Trouble'. Humboldt Journal of Social Relations,

(Spring) pp. 20-25. Book Chapters

M. Gunzenhauser and G. Noblit (2011). What the arts can teach school reform. In J. Sefton-Green et al. The Routledge international handbook of creative learning. New York: Routledge, Pp. 427-437.

G. Noblit (2010). "Unpacking the Meaning of School Reform: A Social Foundations Perspective." In. S. Tozer, B. Gallegos, and A. Henry. M

Greiner and P. Price (eds.). The handbook of research in the social foundations of education. New York: Routledge. Pp. 621-631 G. Noblit (2007). Class-declasse. In J. Van Galen and G. Noblit (eds.) Late to class: Social clas s and schooling in the new Economy, Albany, NY:

SUNY Press, Pp. 313-346.


G. Noblit and W. Pink (2007). Introduction. In W. Pink and G, Noblit (eds.). International handbook of urban education. Dordrecht, The

Netherlands: Springer. Pp. xv-xxxvi. G. Noblit and W. Pink (2007). Coda: An urban education dystopia.In W. Pink and G, Noblit (eds.). International handbook of urban education.

Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer. Pp. 1175-1176.. A. Anders, W. Bryan and G. Noblit (2005). Leveraging Whiteness: Toward a Pedagogy for Whites in Denial of Their Privilege. In S. Hughes

(eds.). What We Still Don’t Know About Teaching Race. (pp. 97-154.) Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellon G. Noblit (2005). Perspective 7: Critical Theory. In. J. Paul. Introduction t the Philosophies of Research and Criticism in Education and the Social

Sciences. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education. Pp. 76-9. G. Noblit (2005). Perspective 7: Critical Theory on the Carr et al. Study . In. J. Paul. Introduction t the Philosophies of Research and Criticism in

Education and the Social Sciences. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education. Pp. 126-130. G. Noblit (2005). Perspective 7: Critical Theory on the Heath Study. In. J. Paul. Introduction t the Philosophies of Research and Criticism in

Education and the Social Sciences. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education. Pp. 162-166. G. Noblit (2005). Perspective 7: Critical Theory on the Alexander Study. In. J. Paul. Introduction t the Philosophies of Research and Criticism in

Education and the Social Sciences. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education. Pp. 198-201. G. Noblit (2005). Perspective 7: Critical Theory on the Raudenbush et al. Study. In. J. Paul. Introduction t the Philosophies of Research and

Criticism in Education and the Social Sciences. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education. Pp. 240-244. G. Noblit (2005). Perspective 7: Critical Theory on the Ellis Study. In. J. Paul. Introduction t the Philosophies of Research and Criticism in

Education and the Social Sciences. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education. Pp. 276-279. G. Noblit (2005). Perspective 7: Critical Theory on the Sullivan Study. In. J. Paul. Introduction t the Philosophies of Research and Criticism in

Education and the Social Sciences. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education. Pp. 307-310.

G. Noblit (2005). Unexamined Presumptions. In D. Breault and R. Breault (eds.). Experiencing Dewey. Indianapolis, IN: Kappa Delta Pi.. Pp. 85-87.

W. Pink and G. Noblit (2005). Cultural Matters in School Reform. In W. Pink and G. Noblit (eds.). Cultural Matters: Lessons Learned from Field

Studies from Several Leading School Reform Strategies. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. Pp. 1-34. G. Noblit and M. Jennings (2005). Comer, Efficacy and Power: What Gregory School Did with the School Development Program. In W. Pink and

G. Noblit (eds.). Cultural Matters: Lessons Learned from Field Studies from Several Leading School Reform Strategies. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. Pp. 87-112.

G. Noblit, S. Flores and E. Murillo (2004). Postcritical Ethnography: An Introduction. In G. Noblit, S. Flores and E. Murillo (eds.). Postcritical

Ethnography. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. Pp. 1-53.

G. Noblit (2004). Storytelling as Ethnographic Representation. In G. Noblit, S. Flores and E. Murillo (eds.). Postcritical Ethnography. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. Pp. 307-318.

G. Noblit (2004). Meta-Ethnography. Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. G. Noblit (2004). Reinscribing Critique in Educational Ethnography: Critical and Postcritical Ethnography. Foundations for Research: Methods of

Inquiry in Education and the Social Science. Pp. 181-203. G. Noblit, and Beth Hatt-Echeverria (2003). Introduction: The Future of Educational Studies in the United States. In G. Noblit and B. Hatt (eds.).

The Future of Educational Studies. Pp. 1-8.


G. Noblit, Beth Hatt-Echeverria, and Sherick A. Hughes (2003). Where Identity Meets Knowledge: The Future of Educational Studies. In G.

Noblit and B. Hatt (eds.). The Future of Educational Studies. Pp. 313-325. G. Noblit and Michael E. Jennings (2001). Gregory Elementary School. The Kids Got Smarter: Case Studies of Successful Comer Schools. Pp.35-

51. G. Noblit (2001). The School Development Program and School Success. The Kids Got Smarter: Case Studies of Successful Comer Schools.

Pp.109-131. G. Noblit, Paula R. Groves, Michael E. Jennings, and Jean A. Patterson (2001). Studying Successful Comer Schools. The Kids Got Smarter: Case

Studies of Successful Comer Schools. Pp.109-131

G. Noblit and Jean A. Patterson (2001). The School Development Program and Education Reform. The Kids Got Smarter: Case Studies of Successful Comer Schools. Pp.131-148.

G. Noblit, Penny L. Richards, Amee Adtkins (1999). Working Together? An Introduction. Working Together? Grounded Perspective on

Interagency Collaboration. Pp. 1-10. G. Noblit (1999). Mapping Current Practice: Case Studies of Service Delivery. Working Together? Grounded Perspective on Interagency

Collaboration. Pp. 11-18. G. Noblit, Penny L. Richards, and Amee Adkins (1999). Learning from Current Practice. Working Together? Grounded Perspective on

Interagency Collaboration. Pp. 103-123. G. Noblit, Penny L. Richards, Amee Adkins, and Catherine Awsumb (1999). Looking Forward: Lessons for Future Practice. Working Together?

Grounded Perspective on Interagency Collaboration. Pp. 221-230.

G.W. Noblit and C.T. Cobb (1997). Organizing for Effective Integrated Services. in R.J. Illback, C.T. Cobb., and H.M. Joseph, Jr. (eds.) Integrated Services for Children and Families: Opportunities for Psychological Practice. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, pp. 191-220.

V. Dempsey and G. Noblit (1996). Cultural Ignorance and School Desegregation: A Community Narrative. in M. Shujaa (ed.) Beyond

Desegregation. Thousand Oaks CA: Corwin, pp.115-137. V. Dempsey and G. Noblit (1996). Caring and Continuity. in D. Eaker-Rich and J. Van Galen (eds.) Caring In An Unjust World. Albany, NY:

SUNY Press, pp 113-128. G. Noblit and W. Pink (1995). Mapping the Alternative Paths of the Sociology of Education. in W. Pink and G. Noblit (eds.) Continuity and

Contradiction: The Futures of the Sociology of Education. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, pp. 1-40. M. Courtney and G. Noblit (1994). The Principal As Caregiver. in A. Prillaman, D. Eaker and D. Kendrick (eds.) The Tapestry of Caring:

Education as Nurturance. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, pp. 67-85. D. Eaker, G. Noblit and D. Rogers (1992). Reconsidering Effective Staff Development: Reflective Practice and Elaborated Culture as Desirable

Outcomes. in W. Pink amd A. Hyde (eds.) Effective Staff Development for School Change. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, pp. 151-68. G. Noblit and J. Engel (1992). The Holistic Injunction: An Ideal and Moral Imperative for Qualitative Research. in J. Morse (ed.). Qualitative

Health Research. Newburg Park, CA: Sage, pp. 43-49. G. Noblit, J. Paul and P. Schlechty (1991). The Social and Political Construction of Emotional Disturbance. in J. Paul and B. Epanchin (eds.).

Educating Emotionally Disturbed Children and Youth. New York: Merrill, pp. 218-242.


G. Noblit (1990). The Nested Contexts of Teacher Education. in H. Harrington (ed), Teachers for the Twenty First Century. Greenville, NC: East Carolina University.

G. Noblit and D. Eaker (1989). Evaluation Designs as Political Strategies. in. J. Hannaway and R. Crowson (eds.), The Politics of Reforming

School Administration. New York, NY: The Falmer Press, pp. 127-138. G. Noblit (1987). Ideological Purity and Variety in Effective Middle Schools. in G. Noblit and W. Pink (eds.), Schooling in Social Context.

Norwood, .J.: Ablex, pp. 203-217. P. Schlechty and G. Noblit (1982). Some Uses of Sociological Theory in Educational Evaluation. in R. Corwin (ed.), Policy Research. Greenwish,

Conn.: JAI Press, pp. 283-305. G. Noblit (1979). Patience and Prudence in a Southern High School: Managing the Political Economy of Desegregated Education. in Ray C. Rist

(ed.), Desegregated Schools: Appraisals of an American Experiment. Academic Press , pp. 65-88. G. Noblit and B. Johnston (1982). Understanding School Desegregation in the Desegregation Context. in G. Noblit and B. Johnston (eds.), The

School Principal and School Desegregation. Springfield, Ill.: Charles Thomas, pp. 3-39. G. Noblit and B. Johnston (1982). Managing Student Desegregation. in G. Noblit and B. Johnston (eds.), The School Principal and School

Desegregation. Springfield, Ill.: Charles Thomas, pp. 134-157. T. Collins, G. Noblit, and D. Ciscel (1980). High School Preparation for Employment in a Segmented Labor Market. in Max Sugar (ed.),

Responding to Adolescent Needs, New York: Spectrum, pp. 235-249. G. Noblit and T. Collins (1980). Cultural Degradation and Minority Student Adaptations: The School Experience and Minority Adjustment

Contingencies. In Max Sugar (ed.), Responding to Adolescent Needs. New York: Spectrum Press, pp. 73-87. G. Noblit and T. Collins (1979). Goals, Race and Roles: Staff and Student Patterns in the Desegregation Process. In B. Foglemann (ed.). Urban

Anthropology in Tennessee. Memphis: Tennessee Anthropological Association, pp. 40-54. A. Bent and G. Noblit (1976). Collective Bargaining in Local Government: Effects of Urban Political Culture on Public Labor-Management

Relations. in Alan Bent (ed.) Urban Administration: Management, Politics, and Change.Dunellen, pp. 46-61.

Book Reviews G. Noblit (2001). Review of The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy. Journal of Education for Students Placed At Risk, 6:4, 427-430.

G. Noblit (1997). Review of Barometers of Change: Individual, Educational, and Social Transformation. Educational Studies, Fall/Winter.

G. Noblit (1997). Restructuring Urban Schools: A Chicago Perspective. Anthropology and Education, 28:4, 611, G. Noblit, (1997). Review of Reform and Resistance in Schools and Classrooms: An Ethnographic View of the Coalition of Essential Schools.

Qualitative Studies in Education, 10:3, 397-398. G. Noblit (1995). Review of the Handbook of Qualitative Research and The Handbook of Qualitative Research in Education. Qualitative Health

Review, 5:3, 401-404. G. Noblit (1994). Review of The Color of Their Skin: Education and Race in Richmond, Va., 1954-89. Southern Cultures, 1:1, 121. G. Noblit (1993). Nel Noddings: The Challenge to Care in Schools. Educational Studies, 24:4, 369-372. G. Noblit (1982). Tom Kitwood, Disclosures to a Stranger: Adolescent Values in and Advanced Industrial Society. Educational Studies, 12:1, 81.


Other Publications and Research Reports

Hanley, M. and Noblit, G. (2008). Culturally Responsiveness, racial identity, and achievement. A paper commissioned by the Heinz Endowments, Pittsburgh, PA. Martin, K. Cooper, J., Noblit, G., Anders, A., Simpson, A. & Agyapong (2007). The North Carolina Workplace and Community Transition Youth Offender Program: Annual Evaluation Report . Submitted to North Carolina Department of Correction.

Anders, A., Cooper, J., Martin, K.& G .Noblit (2006). The North Carolina Workplace and Community Transition Youth Offender Program: Year Seven. Submitted to North Carolina Department of Correction.

Anders, A., W. R. Bryan, B. Hatt & G .Noblit (2003). The North Carolina Workplace and Community Transition Youth Offender Program: Year Five. Submitted to North Carolina Department of Correction.

Hatt, B., G.Noblit and A. Anders (2002). Formative Evaluation of the Workplace and Community Transition Youth Offender Program. Submitted to North Carolina Department of Correction.

Noblit, G. and D. Corbett (2001). North Carolina Charter School Evaluation Report. Submitted to the North Carolina State Board of Education.

Hatt, B. & G.Noblit (2001). Summative Evaluation of the Workplace and Community Transition Youth Offender Program. Submitted to North Carolina Department of Correction

Groves, P., B. Berry, and G. Noblit. (2000) “Explaining North Carolina’s National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Gains” Report submitted to the Center for Teaching and Policy, University of Washington.

Brayboy, B., Hatt, B., & Noblit, G. (1999). Evaluation of the Workplace and Community Transition Youth Offender Program: The First Year, 1998-1999, interim report submitted to the North Carolina Department of Corrections

Becker, E., Delaney, M.K., & Noblit, G. (1999). The Stories of Successful School-Based Health Centers in Four Communities in North Carolina, final report submitted to Women’s and Children’s Health, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. Guest Editor, Educational Foundations, 13(1), Winter 1999 Becker, E.; Delaney, M.K.; & Noblit, G. (1998). The Stories of Two of North Carolina’s Successful School-Based Health Centers, final report submitted to Women’s and Children’s Health, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. Noblit, G. (1998). North Carolina Charter School Evaluation: Case Studies Cross-site Analysis, chapter 8 in Report to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee on the Charter School Evaluation Report, December 1998. D.Corbett, B.Wilson, and G.Noblit (1999). The North Carolina A+ Schools Program: Moving Towards Comprehensive School Reform: A+ after Year 3 - 1998 D. Corbett, B. Wilson, M. McKinney, S. Flores and G. Noblit (1998). A+ in Action. An Evaluation Report on the First Two Years of the North Carolina A+ Schools Program. Winston-Salem, N.C. Kenan Institute for the Arts.

M. Cornish and G. Noblit (1997). Bring the Community into the Process: Issues and promising practices for involving parents and business in

local Smart Start Partnerships. Chapel Hill, NC: Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, 17 pp. J. Kretovics, G. Noblit, D. Rogers and C. Awsumb (1995). All Children Can Learn - The Unmet Promise. Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Education

and Law Project, 62 pp. G. Noblit et al (1995). Working Together? The Report on Interagency Collaboration for Children and Their Families in North Carolina. Raleigh,

NC: North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, 122 pp. B. Berry, G. Noblit, and D. Bartels (1987). The Institutional Health of Colleges: Two Instructional Case Studies and Instructor’s Guides.

Winston-Salem, NC: Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, Inc. 17 pp. P. Schlechty and G. Noblit (1987). "Teacher Selection in the Durham County School System", in A. Wise et al (eds.), Effective Teacher Selection,

Santa Monica, CA: The Rand Corp, pp. 188-207.


G.W. Noblit and J. Van Galen (1986). Executive Summary and Recommendations: Black Male Student Achievement Study. Raleigh, NC: Wake County Public Schools, 45 pp.

C. Newman, G. Noblit, and P. Schlechty (1982). Exploring Teachers’ Center’s Support of School-Based Coordinating Teachers. San Francisco,

CA: Far West Laboratory, 63 pp. G. Noblit and T. Collins (1979). "The Social Context of Alienation: New Policy Research on Lower Class Blacks in Desegregated Schools," in

Murray Wax (ed.)., When Schools Desegregated. Washington, DC: NIE, pp. 59-70. A. Borders-Patterson, J. Broschert, J. Deslonde, F. Ianni, E. Reuss-Ianni and G. Noblit (1978). Violent Schools-Safe Schools: The Safe School

Study Report to the Congress. Vol. 1. Case Studies. January, 247 pp. T. Collins and G. Noblit(1978). Stratification and Resegregation: The Case of Crossover High School. Final Report of NIE contract #400-76-009,

February, 204 pp. G.W. Noblit (1977). Cooperation in Human Services: An Evaluation of Voluntary Effort of Professionals. in L. Ingram (ed). Ever Feel Like

You’re All Alone Trying to Improve the Human Condition? An Assessment of the Memphis State University Human Services Co-Op. Memphis, TN: Hew, pp. 51-74.

T. Collins and G. Noblit (1976). "The Process of Interracial Schooling: An Assessment of conceptual Frameworks and Methodological

Orientations." in Desegregation Literature: A Critical Appraisal. Washington, DC. U.S. Government Printing Office, September, pp. 79-110.

G. Noblit and T. Collins (1976). Desegregated Education in Crossover High School. A report prepared for the Desegregation Studies Unit of the

National Institute of Education, June, 42 pp. G. Noblit, P. Radtke, J. Ross and R. Canfield (1975). Programmatic Responses to Drug Abuse in Public Sector Employment: A Research Report.

Springfield, VA: National Technical Information Service, 96 pp. G. Noblit, P. Radtke and J. Ross (1975). Public Personnel and Drug Use: A Guide for Policy Development. Chicago: International Personnel

Management Association, 39 pp. G.W. Noblit, P.H, Radtke, J.G. Ross, J.A. Wall, and P.H. Genz (1975). Drug Use and Employment: A Personnel Manual. Chicago, IL:

International Personnel Management Association. G.W. Noblit and K. Polk. (1973). Delinquency and Access to Success. Washington, DC: National Institute of Mental Health, 9 pp.

EVALUATION AND POLICY RESEARCH

Evaluator, The James B. Hunt Institute for Educational Policy and Leadership, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC, 2008- Evaluator, Youth Offender Workplace and Community Transition Program, 1998-2003; 2006-present Evaluator, Global Neighborhoods, The ArtsCenter, Carrboro, NC Evaluator, A+ schools Program, 1995-2002 Evaluator, Smart Start, 1994-2002 Evaluator, Charter Schools Evaluation, 1998-1999 Evaluator, Early Childhood Leadership Development Program, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, 1992-1994 Policy Researcher, Third Century Project, Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, 1986-1987.


Policy Researcher, Black Male Achievement Study, Wake County Schools, NC, 1986. Evaluator, Support Learning Program, Wake County Schools, 1985. Evaluator, School's of Choice Program, Wake County Schools, 1983. Evaluator, Statewide Interagency School Discipline Program, North Carolina Governor's Crime Commission, 1982-83. Evaluator, Moore County (NC) Basic Skills Improvement Program, 1981. Funded by ESEA Title 1. Evaluator, Sperry Vickers Corporation, Searcy Plant, Searcy, Arkansas. Assessed employee incentive program, 1978. Evaluator, State of Arkansas' Division of Youth Services. Assessment of the Diagnostic and Reception Center's Staffing and Process, 1978. Evaluator, Beale Street Repertory Company, Field study of summer CETA program, 1977 and 1978. Evaluator, Memphis Youth Services Co-op. Developed evaluation methodology and directed evaluation. Provided consultation, technical assistance and evaluation services to agencies upon request, 1976-77.

PROFESSIONAL PAPERS “A Critique of Mentoring.” .” Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, Vancouver BC,, April 2012. “Taking over teacher leadership.” Paper presented at the American Educational Studies Association Annual Meeting. St. Louis, MO, November

2011. “Teacher Class and the Media.” Paper presented at the American Educational Studies Association Annual Meeting. St. Louis, MO, November

2011. “A Road Not TakenWith School Desegregation.” Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA, April

2011. “ Discourses of Dominance: A whiteness pedagogy in white civil rights leadership”. Paper presented at the American Educational Studies

Association Annual Meeting. Denver. CO, November 2010. “Extreme Teaching”, Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY, April 2008.

“Teaching In Prison”, Paper presented at the American Educational Studies Association Annual Meeting, Cleveland, OH, October 2007. “The Future of Social Class and Implications for Teacher Education”, Noted Session, American Educational Research Association, San Francisco,

CA, April 2006.

“A Reform With Legs: The a+ Schools Program.” Keynote Presentation at the a+ School National Conference, Greensboro, NC, December 2005. “Red Pedagogy and Teaching Social foundations. Panel Presentation at the American educational Studies Association Annual Meeting,

Charlottesville, VA, November 2005. “Political Race Theory as Pedagogical Practice.” Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Conference. Montreal,

Canada, April 2005.

“What is Globalization and how Does It Affect Education..” Paper presented at the Globaluization and Diversity in Education Conference. Pullman Washington, Feb. 2005.


“ Leveraging Whiteness.” Paper presented at the American Educational Studies Association Annual Meeting. Kansas City , KS. Nov. 2004.

“Meta-Ethnography: Issues in Synthesizing Qualitative Studies.” Keynote presentation at Meta-ethnography Conference. July 2003, Bristol, UK “Realism in Social Class Theory.” Paper presented at American Educational Research Association, April 2002, New Orleans, LA. “Policy Choices: The Role of Evaluation versus Politics in North Carolina’s Charter Schools Decisionmaking. Paper presented at American

Educational Research Association, April 2002, New Orleans, LA. “What We Knew Then But Still Can’t Do Now.” Keynote presentation at the Let’s Talk Race conference, February 2002, Chapel Hill, NC. “The Walls of Jericho: Struggling for an AESA.” Paper presented at American Educational Studies Association, April 2000, Vancouver, BC. “Troubling the Foundations of Qualitative Research: Reflection on the Past and Gazing Towards the Future” Paper presented at American Educational Studies Association, November 2000,Vancouver, BC. “Charter Schools: A Postmodern ‘Reform”. Paper presented at American Educational Studies Association, November 2000,Vancouver, BC. “How Should We Measure the Impact of the Arts on Schools.” Paper presented at Arts Education Partnership, 2000, Pasadena, CA “Promising Practices in North Carolina Charter Schools” Annual North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Accountability Conference. February 2000, Greensboro, NC “Improving Student Outcomes: The North Carolina Context” Improving Student Education: Lessons from Urban Schools. November 2000, Durham, NC. “Smart Start Qualitative Studies” Measuring Results. Frank Porter Graham Smart Start Evaluation Conference. September 2000, Chapel Hill, NC “The Achievement Gap: Growing with Each Reform?” Exploring Education and Racial Equity in the “New” South. Sponsored by the Spencer Foundation. May 2000, Chapel Hill, NC

“The Understanding that Dominates.” Paper presented at the American Educational Studies Association, November, 1997, San Antonio, TX. “Rituals of Returning.” Paper presented at the American Educational Studies Association, November 1996, Montreal, Canada. “Cultural Studies and Educational Foundations.” Paper presented at the American Educational Studies Association, November 1995, Cleveland,

Ohio. “Power and Reciprocity in Fieldwork.” Paper presented at American Educational Studies Association, November 1995, Cleveland, Ohio. “A Community Without A School Has Nothing To Hold It Together: A Morality Play.” Paper presented at the American Educational Research

Association, April 1995, San Francisco, CA. “Recycling Reforms.” Paper presented at the American Educational Studies Association, November 1994. Chapel Hill, NC. “Culture, Community Discourse and Ethnography.” Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association, November 1994, Atlanta, GA. “Cultural Ignorance and School Desegregation.” Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, April 1994, New York, NY. “Caring, Classrooms and Kids. ” Paper presented at the American Educational Studies Association, November, 1993, Chicago, IL. “The Social Construction of Virtue.” Paper presented at American Educational Research Association, April, 1993, Atlanta, GA. “Instituting Caring in a School: Principal Contradictions. ” Paper presented at American Educational Research Association, April, 1993, Atlanta,

GA.


“Creating Caring in Schools. ” A paper commissioned and presented at the Lilly Endowments' Youth and Caring Conference, February, 1992. “The Making of American Minds.” Invited address at the South Atlantic Philosophy of Education meeting, October, 1992, Chapel Hill, NC. “Deep Understandings. ” Paper presented at the South Atlantic Philosophy of Education meetings, 1992, Chapel Hill, NC. “Caring and Community.” A paper presented at the American Educational Studies Association, October, 1991, Pittsburgh, PA. “Power and Caring.” Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, April 1991, Chicago, IL. “Voicing Rituals of Power and Caring.” Paper presented at the Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Feb. 1991, Philadelphia, PA. “School History and School Improvement.” (with M. Courtney) Paper presented at American Educational Studies Association, Oct.1989 Chicago,

IL. “The Text Analogy and the New Society of Education.” Paper presented at the American Educational Studies Association, Chicago, IL October,

1989. “Emblematic Narratives of Teaching.” Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, November 1989,

Washington DC. “A Postmodern Dr. Deb.” Paper presented at the Writing the Social Text Conference, November 1989, College Park, MD. “Writing the Pedagogic Text: On Educational Ethnography After Reader Response Theory.” Paper presented at the Writing the Social Text

Conference, November 1989, College Park, MD. “Ethnography as Literature: The Literary Devices of Qualitative Research.” Paper presented at the Southern Sociological Society, April 1989. “Issues in Designing and Conducting Tracer Case Studies.” Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, March 1989, San

Francisco, CA. “Armchair Educational Ethnography.” Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, March 1989, San Francisco, CA. “The Literatures of Our Lives.” Paper presented at the Ethnography in Education Research Forum, February 1989, Philadelphia, PA. “Weber Was Wrong: Toward a Renewed Sociology of Education.” Paper presented at the American Educational Studies Association, November

1988, Toronto, Canada. “What it is.” Paper presented at the American Educational Studies Association. November 1988, Toronto, Canada. “The Watts School History Project.” Paper presented at the American Educational Studies Association, November 1988, Toronto, Canada. “The Context of Sharing Time.” Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, April 1988, New Orleans, La. “A Sense of Interpretation.” Paper presented at the Ethnography in Education Research Forum, February 1988, Philadelphia, Pa. “The Case for a Social Foundations of Medical Education.” Paper presented at American Educational Studies Association, Nov. 1987. “The Idea of Meta-Ethnography.” Paper presented at American Educational Studies Association, November 1987. “Teacher Planning as Appropriation Power.” Paper presented at American Educational Studies Association, November 1987. “Getting Deep: The Sociologies of Knowledge and Education in Teacher Education.” Paper presented at North Carolina Professors of Foundations

of Education, Durham, NC October 1987.


“Talk About What We Know.” Paper presented at Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, August 1987. “Evaluation Designs as Political Strategies.” Paper presented at American Educational Research Association, April 1987. “Problems of Conducting Qualitative Research in Medical Settings: A Critical Perspective.” Paper presented at American Educational Research

Association, April 1987. “Ethnography as Literature.” Paper presented at American Educational Studies Association, November, 1986. “The Art of Interviewing Kids.” Paper presented at American Educational Research Association, April 1986. “When Ethnographies Don't Add.” Paper presented at American Educational Research Association, April 1986. “The Telling of Ethnography.” Paper presented at Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Marsh 1986. “The Meaning of Foundations.” Paper presented at South Atlantic Philosophy of Education Society Annual Meetings, Boone, NC, October, 1985. “The Politics of Planning.” Paper presented at American Educational Research Association, April 1985. “Ethnography, Organizations, and Dialectics: Exploration of a Heuristic.” Paper presented at the Southern Sociological Society, April 1985.

Charlotte, NC. “Transforming Organizational Cultures.” NCACD Convention, Greensboro, NC, February 1985. “The Qualitative Critique of Teacher Labor Market Studies.” Paper presented at Ethnography in Education Research Forum, March 1985. “The Politics of Culture.” Central Region Educational Management Conference, New Zealand, July 1984. “Creating Organizationally Effective Desegregated Schools.” Paper commissioned by the National Institute of Education, presented October 1984

at U.S. Department of Education. “Qualitative Methods and Survey Research: A Critical Nexus.” Paper prepared for the American Sociological Association Annual meetings, San

Antonio, TX, 1984. “Analyzing Comparative Case Studies.” Paper prepared for Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA, 1983. “Evaluation of Schools of Choice Program.” Report submitted to the Wake County (NC) School Board, 1983. “Inschool Suspension Programs: A Comparative Case Study.” Paper prepared for Eastern Educational Research Association Annual meetings,

Baltimore, MD, 1983. “Interpreting the Translation of Data.” Paper prepared for Eastern Educational Research Association Annual meetings, Baltimore, MD, 1983. “Meta Ethnography: Issues in the Replication and Synthesis of Qualitative Research.” Paper prepared for American Educational Research

Association Annual meetings, Montreal, Canada, 1983. “School Community Planning for Delinquency Prevention: A Process Study as Outcome Evaluation.” Paper prepared for American Educational

Research Association Annual meetings, Montreal, Canada, 1983. “Theory and Policy: Towards a Reframing of Policy Research.” Paper presented at the Southern Sociological Association Annual meetings,

Memphis, TN, April 1982. “Not Seeing the Forest for the Trees: The Failure of Synthesis in the Desegregation Ethnographies.” Paper presented at the American Educational

Research Association Annual meetings, New York, March 1982.


“The Prospects of an Applied Ethnography: A Sociology of Knowledge Interpretation.” Paper presented at the Ethnography in Education Research

Forum, Philadelphia, March 1981. “Strategies for Avoiding School Resegregation.” Paper presented at the American Association of School Administrators conference on Building

Success-Based Schools (paper distributed by AASA to all members; cassettes for sale by AASA), Chicago, Il, July 1980. “Techniques for Eliminating Racially Identifiable and Isolated Classrooms.” Paper presented at the Twenty-Third Annual North Carolina Junior

High/Middle School Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, March 1980. “Beyond Individual Effects: Assessing the Organizational Effects of Staff Development.” Paper presented at National Council of States for

Inservice Educational Annual meeting, Hollywood, FL, November 1979. “Issues for Research in the Second Generation of School Desegregation.” Paper commissioned by NIE for consideration of issues to be

incorporated in School Desegregation Grants Program, October 1979. “The Control of Schools: Principals, Climate and Crime.” Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual meetings,

San Francisco, CA, April 1979. “Managing Student Desegregation: A Comparative Study of the Functioning of Principals and Implications for Policy Research.” Paper presented

at the American Educational Research Association annual meetings, San Francisco, CA, April 1979. “Administrative Styles, School Crime and Youth Crime in the High School." Paper presented at the American Educational Studies Association

Annual meetings, Washington, DC, November 1978. “The Quality of Desegregated Educational Experiences.” Paper presented at the Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual meetings, San

Francisco, CA., September 1978. “The Ethnographer in the School..” Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association meetings, Toronto, Canada, March 1978. “Goals, Race and Roles: Staff and Student Patterns in the Desegregation Process.” Paper presented at the American Educational Research

Association Annual meetings. Toronto, Canada, march 1978. “School Flight and School Policy.” Paper presented at the Southern Sociological Society meetings, New Orleans, LA, March 1978. “In Search Meaning: Roots, Media and the Public Response.” Paper presented at the Southwestern Sociological Association meetings, Houston,

TX, April 1978. “Women in Prison: A Critical Appraisal of a Research Agenda.” Paper presented at the Southwestern Sociological Association meetings, Houston,

TX, April 1978. “The Pushing of Hookers: The Management Game of Vice Control.” Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, Atlanta,

GA, November 1977. “Advocacy and Rehabilitation in Women's Prisons.” Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings. Atlanta, GA, November

1977. “Reconstructing a High School After Court-Ordered Desegregation.” Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association meetings,

Houston, TX, November 1977. “Education: Provider of Equal Opportunity or Preserve of Inequality.” Paper prepared for the Southwestern Sociological Association meetings.

Dallas, TX, April 1977.


“The Significance of Attitudes in a Labeling Process.” Paper prepared for the Southwestern Sociological Association meetings, Dallas, TX, April 1977.

“A Comparative Look at Prisonization: Sex and Prison Culture.” Paper prepared for the Southwestern Sociological Association meetings, Dallas,

TX, April 1977. “Interracial Communication in a Desegregated School.” Paper prepared for the Southern Anthropological Society meetings, Miami, FL, March

1977. “Ethnographic Approaches to Evaluation.” Prepared for the National Conference on Criminal Justice Evaluation, Washington, DC, February 1977. “Formal and Informal Social Control of Drug Abuse.” Paper presented at the Southwestern Legal Foundation's Conference on Juvenile Justice,

Dallas, TX, November 1976. “The Local Impact of Federal Research Funds on School Desegregation.” Paper presented at the American Educational Studies Association Annual

meetings, Memphis, TN, November 1976. “Retail Socialization: The Preparation of Black High School Students for Employment in Business.” Paper presented at the Southern

Anthropological Society meetings, Atlanta, GA, April 1976. “School Failure and Juvenile Delinquency.” Paper presented at the Southwestern Sociological Association meetings, Dallas, TC, April 1976. “Class Origins and Academic Achievement: A Critique of the Culture Deprivation Explanation of School Failure.” Paper presented at the

Southwestern Sociological Association meetings, Dallas, TX, April 1976. “The Implications of the Feminist Critique for the Sociology of Female Deviance.” Paper prepared for the Society for the Study of Social Problems

Annual meetings, San Francisco, CA, August 1975. “The Consequences of Labeling for Early Adult Careers.” Paper prepared for American Educational Research Association Annual meetings,

Washington, DC, April 1975. “Institutional Constraints and Labeling: A Critique of Functionalism as Structural Theory for the Labeling Perspective.” Paper prepared for the

Southern Sociological Society meetings, Washington, DC, April 1975. “Programmatic Responses to Drug Abuse in the Public Sector.” Paper presented at the National Drug Abuse Conference, New Orleans, LA, April

1975, also appearing in Proceedings of the Second National Drug Abuse Conference. New York: Marcek Dekker, 1975. “The Black Streetwalker: A Descriptive Study.” Paper prepared for the Southwestern Sociological Association meetings, San Antonio, TX, March

1975. “Program Ideology Analysis: An Analytic Technique for Evaluation Research.” Paper prepared for the Southwestern Sociological Association

meetings, San Antonio, TX, March 1975. “Changing Crime Rates and Changing Sex Roles: A Critique of Goals of Some Segments of the Feminist Movement.” Paper prepared for the

Annual Sociological Research Symposium, Richmond, VA. February 1975, appearing in Sociological Research Symposium V, 1975. “Delinquent Labels and Later Careers.” Paper prepared for the American Sociological Association meetings, Montreal, Canada, August 1974. “Social Class and Vulnerability to the Delinquency Label.” Paper prepared for the Southwestern Sociological Association meeting, Dallas, TX,

March 1974. “The Adolescent Experience and Adult Success: A Non-metropolitan Investigation.” Paper prepared for the Rural Sociology Section of the

Southern Association of the Agriculture Scientists meetings, Memphis, TB, February 1974, also appearing in Rural Sociology in the South, 1974, Arthur G. Cosby (Editor), Texas A&M University.


“Ethics, Powerless People and Meteorologist for the Study of 'Trouble'.” Paper prepared for the Pacific Sociological Association meetings,

Scottsdale, AZ, May 1973. “Crime and the American Way With Women.” Paper prepared for the Pacific Sociological Association meetings, Scottsdale, AZ, May 1973.

TRAINING AND CONSULTATION Speaker, “Developing Creative Capital,” Institute of Emerging Issues , Business Committee on Creativity, Nov. 10, 2010. Consultant, College of Education, University of Arizona, Evaluating Statewide Early Childhood Efforts. September, 23-25, 2007. Trainer, Writing Urban Education, Urban Education Doctoral Program, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Oct. 11-12, 2007.

Consultant, Inquiry Science Study, EDC, Inc., 2002-4 Consulting Researcher , Arts Education Partnership, 2002-3. Consultant, Analytic Procedures for Meta-synthesis Grant, UNC School of Nursing, 1999-2002. Noblit, G. and Wiggins, B. Writing Qualitative Research Proposals, Presentation given at the Institute for Research in Social Science, February 11th,1998 Speaker, North Carolina Humanities Council Speakers’ Bureau, 1998 Smart Start Evaluation Conference, sponsored by Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, UNC-CH, March 16, 1999 Noblit, G. Translating the School Development Program into School Success, Presentation given at the1999 Instructional Leadership Symposium, February 17th, 1999 Instructor, Writing Qualitative Research Proposals, IRSS Short Course, February 1998. Instructor, Writing Qualitative Research Proposals, IRSS Short Course, February 1997.

Classroom Volunteer, Chatham County Schools, 2 days per month, 1995-1996. Speaker, “Caring Teaching Behaviors.” Project Renew, Orange County Schools, March 18, 1996. Instructor, Writing Qualitative Research Proposals, IRSS Short Course, February 1996. Consultant, Outcomes Based Education Evaluation, N.C. Department of Public Instruction, 1994-5. Speaker, "A Look at the Classroom as a Society." Annual Inservice Program. Moore County School, August 1985. Faculty, "Career Planning in a Changing Discipline" (a conference for senior faculty in Departments of Family Medicine) June, 1985. Site Visitor, Secondary School Recognition Program, U.S. Department of Education 1982-83. Consultant, Principal's Institute, UNC General Administration, 1983. (Designed baseline data instruments). Consultant, Durham County Schools. Personnel Management, 1982-3. Trainer, Executive Development Seminar (for chairs of Departments of Family Medicine). School of Medicine, UNC-CH, 1982, 1985. Instructor, "Field Techniques of Research," Metrolina Education Consortium Seminar 1982, 1983.


Advisory Board Memner, Knowledge Use Capacity Study (NIE Funded) l981-83. Director and Trainer, Field-Based Superintendent's Certificate Program, Moore County Schools, NC, 1979-82. Trainer, "Spirits and Symbols" Workshop, Division of Student Affairs, UNC-CH, October 1982. Trainer, "Administration and Policy Making," a Clinic for the North Carolina School Boards Association, October 1982. Trainer, "The Technology of Teaching" Workshop. Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, 1981. Trainer, "Creating School Cultures," Durham County Schools, NC, 1981. Consultant, Pitt County Schools, NC. Middle School Reorganization, 1980-81. Consultant, Mid-Atlantic/Appalachian Race Desegregation Center, University of South Carolina, SC, 1979-81. Consultant, Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools, NC. Gifted and Talented Curriculum, 1979-80. Consultant, Charlote-Mecklenburg Schools, NC, 1980. Consultant, Halifax County Schools, NC, 1980. Guest Speaker and Trainer, Correctional Research and Evaluation Seminar, State Technical Institute at Memphis, TN, 1978/ Member, mayor's Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Memphis, TN., 1978-79. Trainer and Technical Assistance, Alcohol Abuse Training Project Related to Minority Populations, Memphis State University. Trained Southern

Region Alcohol Abuse Workers to work with minority populations, 1976-77. Lecturer, Southwestern Legal Foundation Conference on Juvenile Justice, Dallas, Texas, Fall 1976 and Fall 1977. Consultant on Interracial Education, Tennessee Civil Liberties Union, 1976. Trainer, City Population Staff Training Project. Provided training on program development, drug and employment counseling, and utilization of

available community resources to Memphis City Probation and Diversion Department in 1976. The training was funded by a grant from CETA and IPA.

Trainer, Memphis United Way Agency Executives Training Project. Provided training on evaluation research to volunteer association of human

services agency executives, 1976. Consultant, International Personnel Management Association, Chicago, Il. Prepared policy development guide. Fall 1976. Trainer, U.S. Civil Service Commission, Washington, DC. Provided training for USCSC Occupational Health Consultants on drug abuse and

employment, Spring 1975. Consultant, Applied Science Associates, Reston, VA. Proposal development and marketing in area of human services evaluation and technical

assistance, Spring 1975.

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