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James T. Sears's Degrees

PhD History University of South Carolina
Masters History University of South Carolina
Bachelors History University of South Carolina

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According to Wikipedia, James T. Sears is an American educator, historian, and activist. He is a former professor at the University of South Carolina, Trinity University, Harvard University, and Penn State. The author of books about LGBT history and sexuality education, his archive of correspondence, research notes, interviews is located at the Rubenstein Library of Duke University with ancillary materials at the College of Charleston Special Collections.

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Educators, homosexuality, and homosexual students: are personal feelings related to professional beliefs? (1992) (181)
Overcoming heterosexism and homophobia : strategies that work (1998) (139)
Growing Up Gay in the South: Race, Gender, and Journeys of the Spirit (1991) (132)
Sexuality and the Curriculum: The Politics and Practices of Sexuality Education. Critical Issues in the Curriculum. (1992) (87)
Youth, Education, and Sexualities: An International Encyclopedia (2005) (86)
Turning Points in Curriculum: A Contemporary American Memoir (1999) (76)
Researching the other/searching for self: Qualitative research on [homo]sexuality in education (1992) (53)
Gay, lesbian, and transgender issues in education : programs, policies, and practices (2005) (47)
The Institutional Climate for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Education Faculty (2002) (47)
A dangerous knowing : sexuality, pedagogy and popular culture (1999) (41)
Rebels, Rubyfruit, and Rhinestones: Queering Space in the Stonewall South (2001) (36)
Air pollution abatement and regional economic development (1974) (30)
Helping Students Understand and Accept Sexual Diversity. (1991) (26)
Generational influences on contemporary curriculum thought (2000) (25)
Curriculum, Religion, and Public Education: Conversations for an Enlarging Public Square (1998) (25)
Teaching and thinking about curriculum : critical inquiries (1991) (21)
Centering Culture: teaching for critical sexual literacy using the sexual diversity wheel (1997) (21)
Lonely Hunters (1997) (19)
Behind the Mask of the Mattachine: The Hal Call Chronicles and the Early Movement for Homosexual Emancipation (2006) (19)
Interrogating the subject: queering elementary education, 10 years on (2009) (18)
When Best Doesn't Equal Good: Educational Reform and Teacher Recruitment a Longitudinal Study (1994) (17)
Curriculum Work as a Public Moral Enterprise (2004) (16)
Seeding of Large Areas with Biological Soil Crust Starter Culture Formulations: Using an Aircraft Disbursable Granulate to Increase Stability, Fertility and CO2 Sequestration on a Landscape Scale (2012) (15)
Conducting Qualitative Research in Higher Education. (1986) (13)
The second wave of curriculum theorizing: Labyrinths, orthodoxies, and other legacies of the glass bead game (1992) (13)
Media Literacy Teacher Talk: Interpretation, Value, and Implementation (2010) (10)
Booknotes (1987) (9)
The Rhetoric of Research and Reform@@@When Best Doesn't Equal Good: Educational Reform & Teacher Recruitment, a Longitudinal Study (1995) (8)
Air pollution abatement and regional economic development. An input-output analysis. [West Virginia] (1973) (7)
Out of Harmony on the Cherokee Boundary: Clinics, culture and the sex ed curriculum (2002) (5)
A Longitudinal Study of a Demonstration Project Related to the Recruitment, Preparation and Retention of Highly Qualified Persons for the Teaching Profession: The Brackenridge Interns--The First Year. (1986) (5)
Teacher Education Policies and Programs: Implementing Reform Proposals of the 1980's. (1988) (5)
Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life: Critical Pedagogy in the Modern Age (1990) (5)
The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost (2019) (5)
Educational Goals for Individuals with a Severe Disability: Parental and Professional Preferences (1996) (4)
Becoming and Being: Bisexuality and the Search for Self (2014) (4)
Museums, Friends, and Lovers in the New South (2000) (3)
Commitment: A reflection of the quality of preservice teachers (1988) (3)
Leadership and pedagogy: Rethinking leadership in professional schools of education (1989) (2)
What I Would Have Liked My Teachers to Know (2013) (2)
Cultural Wars in a Southern Town: Race and the Hidden Narrative of the Master (2000) (2)
Introduction: Queering Later Life (2008) (2)
Bob Basker (1918-2001): Selling the Movement (2014) (1)
Challenging the Status Quo in Sexuality Education (1993) (1)
Preview: Viewing change for tomorrow's teachers (1988) (1)
From Margin to Center: On the “Other” Side of the Curriculum Renaissance (2003) (1)
Institutionalizing Change in Teacher Education: Indiana University, A Retrospective Study. (1988) (1)
The Political Economy of Teacher Training: Attracting High-Ability Persons into Teaching. A Critique. (1988) (1)
Hal Call (1917-2000): Mr. Mattachine (2014) (1)
Dark Nights of the Soul (2019) (1)
Recruiting Minorities into Teaching: A Futuristic Dialogue (1990) (1)
Organizing Sexualities Work at PSU. Forensic Study Visit (November 11-15, 2002). (2002) (0)
Lettres de Vie/La Lettray la Vida/ letters of life (1991) (0)
Introduction (2019) (0)
A Social Frontier for Curriculum Workers (2004) (0)
Dawn Arises in Aristocratic Charleston (2019) (0)
Book Reviews (2000) (0)
This issue: Grounding Contemporary Curriculum Thought (1992) (0)
Booknotes (1976) (0)
Sears, James T., "The Curriculum Worker as a Public Intellectual," pp. 1-13 in Ruben A. Gaztambide-Fernanadez and James T. Sears, eds., Curriculum Worker as a Public Moral Enterprise. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. (2004) (0)
BOOK REVIEW (2007) (0)
The modern world (2008) (0)
Computers and the Curriculum: Teaching from a Critical Perspective (1988) (0)
Booknotes (1973) (0)
Educators Brett and the Baseball Bat (2014) (0)
Afterword: A Conversation with Barbara Gittings (2019) (0)
Investigating Model Teacher Education Reform: Acclimation--Entering the Teaching Profession. (1987) (0)
Booknotes (1988) (0)
Ferreting Out the Lesbian Menace (2019) (0)
The Mississippi of the Homosexual and the Politics of Dialectics (2019) (0)
Preface (2007) (0)
China, LGBT youth in (2005) (0)
Purging Perverts in Paradise (2019) (0)
The Blue Fairy and the Making of a New Activist Generation (2019) (0)
Edwin and John (2009) (0)

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