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308B ZankelEducational Background
PhD in Curriculum and Instruction, minor in Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies, 2010.
University of Wisconsin-Madison , WI
B.A. [Licenciatura] in Educational Sciences, minor in Philosophy, 2003.
Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Teaching Certification for Primary Schooling (first through seventh grades), 2000.
Escuela Normal Superior Nro. 10, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Scholarly Interests
I am interested in epistemological and philosophical questions, as they relate to the politics of schooling and of teacher education. My background allows me to engage in interdisciplinary, comparative and international perspectives, particularly with a focus in Latin America.
Selected Publications
Books
Corson, J. & Friedrich, D. (2025). TV as Curriculum Studies. Putting Curriculum Theory to Work. Brill.
Friedrich, D., Corson, J., & Hollman, D. (Eds.) (2022) Pop Culture and Curriculum, Assemble! Exploring the Limits of Curricular Humanism through Pop Culture. Dio Press.
Friedrich, D. & Colmenares, E. (Eds.) (2017). Resonances of El Chavo del Ocho in Latin American Childhood, Schooling, and Societies. Bloomsbury Press
Spanish translation: Resonancias del Chavo del 8 en la Niñez, Educación y Sociedad Latinoamericana. CLACSO, 2020.
Friedrich, D. (2014). Democratic Education as a Curricular Problem. Historical consciousness and the moralizing limits of the present. Routledge.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Friedrich, D. & Shanahan, J. (2024) An Analysis of Questions from Teachers' Online Groups: Turning the Lens Back to Teacher Education. Teachers College Record, 126(2), 3-25.
Friedrich, D. & Ku Bradt, N. (2021) The Dissertation and the Archive: Governing Through a Globalized Genre. Comparative Education Review 65(2), 227-247.
Corson, J., Dauphinais, J., & Friedrich, D. (2020) Holy Childhoods, Batman!: Configurations of Youth and Possibilities in Teacher Education as Seen Through Robin Comics. The New Educator, 16(2), 171-185.
Lewis, T. & Friedrich, D. (2016). Educational States of Suspension. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 48(3), 237-250.
Straubhaar, R. & Friedrich, D. (2015) Theorizing and Documenting the Spread of Teach For All and its Impact on Global Education Reform. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 23(44). Retrieved from http://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/2055
Friedrich, D., Walter, M., & Colmenares, E. (2015) Making All Children Count: Teach For All and the Universalizing Appeal of Data. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 23(48). Retrieved from
Friedrich, D. (2014). "We brought it upon ourselves": University-based Teacher Education and the Emergence of Boot-Camp-Style Routes to Teacher Certification. Education Policy Analysis Archives.
Goulding, C., Walter, M., & Friedrich, D. (2014). Pedagogy, Torture, Exhibition: A Curricular Palimpsest. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 10(2), 158-176.
Friedrich, D. (2014) Global Micro-Lending in Education Reform: Ense por Argentina and the Neoliberalization of the Grassroots. Comparative Education Review, 58(2), 298-321.
Chapters and other non-peer-reviewed publications
Friedrich, D. & Greene, A. (2022) Teach for All and the visual regime of global teacher education reform. International Encyclopedia of Education.
Friedrich, D. & Corson, J. (2022) Of gods and educable subjects: Posthuman education in Watchmen and The Good Place. In: Friedrich, D, Corson, J. & Hollman, D. (Eds.) Pop Culture and Curriculum, Assemble! Exploring the Limits of Curricular Humanism through Pop Culture. Dio Press, pp.37-54
Friedrich, D. & Arata, N. (2021). And now, who will defend us? Heroes, salvation and counter-narratives in ‘El Chapulín Colorado.’ In: Allender, T. , Dussel, I., Grosvenor, I., and Priem, K. (Eds.) Appreances Matter. The Visual in Educational History (87-108). DeGruyter
Friedrich, D. (2020). The Idea of the University and its Specters. On the Ghostly Return of the “Excluded”. In: Fan, G. & Popkewitz, T. (Eds.) Handbook of Education Policy Studies. Springer/ Shanghai Education Press.
Friedrich, D. (2018). A Vision of a Cyborg Education. Revista Teias, 19(55), 175-187
Arata, N., & Friedrich, D. (2017). Schooling, Pedagogical Imaginaries, and Latin American Childhoods in El Chavo del 8. En D. Friedrich & E. Colmenares (Eds.), Resonances of El Chavo del Ocho in Latin American Childhood, Schooling and Societies (pp. 19–34). Place of publication not identified: Bloomsbury Academic.
Friedrich, D. (2016). Teach for All, Public-Private Partnerships, and the Erosion of the Public in Education. In A. Verger, C. Lubienski, & G. Steiner-Khamsi (Eds.), World Yearbook of Education 2016: The Global Education Industry (pp. 160–174). Routledge.
Grants
Provost’s Investment Fund, “Conference: Contemporary Perspectives on Latin American Education”, AY 2015-2016 (group led by myself, including faculty from all over the College).
Provost’s Investment Fund, “Remapping the landscape of teacher education: Exploring “researchrich” programs”, AY 2014-2015 (written with Prof. Nancy Lesko and Prof. Amy Stuart Wells).
Provost's Investment Fund, "A 'Course Staff' Model for Teaching Assistants", AY 2012-2013 (Faculty group led by D. Hansen).
Provost’s Investment Fund, “Colloquium Series in Curriculum and Teaching: Feeding the Intellectual Experiences of Doctoral Students”, AY 2012-2013 (Written on behalf of the Dept. of Curriculum and Teaching).
Provost’s Investment Fund, “Cultural and Linguistic Exchange in the Americas”, AY 2012-2013 (Written with Prof. Regina Cortina).
Research and Travel Grant, Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University, 2012-2013.
Dean’s grant for Pre-Tenured and Non-Tenure Track Faculty, Teachers College, Summer 2012.
Vilas Travel Grant, Graduate Student Collaborative, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 11/2009.
Dissertator Travel Funds, Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 10/2008.
Tinker-Nave Field Research Grant , 06/2008.
Professional Presentations
鈥淭eachers College in the World, The World in Teachers College.鈥� Panel organized and led, Annual Conference of the CIES, San Francisco 04/2019.
Schools, Hypertime, and a Multiverse of Possibilities: Crisis on Infinite Reforms!, AERA Annual Meeting, Toronto, 04/2019.
Do robots dream of police violence?, Annual Conference of the CIES, Mexico, 03/2018.
鈥淚maginarios de Escuela en El Chavo del 8鈥�, International Standing Conference on the History of Education, Buenos Aires, 07/2017. (With Nicol谩s Arata).
鈥淗acking Toward a Public Education鈥�, AERA Annual Meeting, San Antonio, 04/2017. (With Jordan Corson).
鈥淚maginaries of Latin American Schooling in El Chavo del 8鈥�, Annual Conference of the CIES, Atlanta, 03/2017.
鈥淗acking as a Democratic Suspension鈥�, AERA Annual Meeting, Chicago, 04/2015.
鈥淢aking All Children Count: Teach For All and the Universalizing Appeal of Data鈥�, AERA Annual Meeting, Chicago, 04/2015. (With M. Walter and E. Colmenares)
鈥淭each for whom? Questioning the possibility of PPPs in education through a comparison of Teach for All in Chile and Argentina鈥�, Annual Conference of the CIES, Washington DC, 03/2015.
鈥淥ne Day, All Children will be Numbers: Teach For All and the Universalizing Appeal of Data鈥�, Annual Conference of the CIES, Washington DC, 03/2015. (With M. Walter and E. Colmenares)
鈥淭each for ... (Fill in the Blank): Teacher Education in the Age of Global Reproduction鈥�, AERA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 04/2014.
鈥淕lobal Micro-Lending in Education Reform: Ense帽谩 por Argentina and the Neoliberalization of the Grassroots鈥�, CIES Regional Conference, Amherst, 11/2013.
鈥淢obilizing History as a Disciplinary Regime: The Power of Historical Consciousness鈥�, AERA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 04/2013.
鈥淟iminality in Global Education Projects鈥�, AERA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 04/2013. (With Prof. Gaudelli)
鈥淓nse帽谩 por Argentina and the Troubled Production of the Corporate Teacher鈥�, Annual Conference of the CIES, New Orleans, 03/2013. (With E. Colmenares)
鈥溾�淓nse帽a por 鈥︹�� (complete el espacio en blanco). Formaci贸n docente en la 茅poca de su reproductibilidad t茅cnica鈥�, Latin American Studies Association Meeting, San Francisco, 05/2012.
鈥淭each for鈥� (Fill in the Blank). Teacher Education in the Age of Technical Reproduction鈥�, Annual Conference of the CIES, Puerto Rico, 04/2012.
鈥淧edagogies of Torture, Pedagogies as Torture: A Curricular Palimpsest鈥�, AERA Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, 04/2012. (With C. Goulding and M. Walters)
鈥淭he Mobilization Of Historical Consciousness In The Narratives 麻豆原创 The Last Argentine Dictatorship鈥�, 55th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Educational Society, Montreal, ON, 05/2011.
鈥淩esisting Resistance鈥�, AERA Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 04/2011
鈥淓ducating a historical consciousness as a strategy to produce the Argentine citizen鈥�, AAACS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 04/2011
鈥淣ueva crisis, viejos problemas: aproximaciones y resignificaciones desde el campo educativo en la Argentina鈥� (Symposium, president and participant), Latin American Studies Association Meeting, Montreal, 10/2010.
鈥淟egislating Progress: Argentine Education Laws and the Framing of Darkness鈥�, 54th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Educational Society, Chicago, IL, 03/2010.
鈥淭he Paradoxes of a Democratic Education: Ranci猫re and the Question of Equality鈥�. AERA Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, 05/2010 (with Bryn Jaastad).
鈥淒emocratic Education: An (Im)Possibility That Yet Remains To Come鈥�. 4th Biennial Provoking Curriculum Conference, Ottawa, Canada, 05/2009 (with Bryn Jaastad).
鈥淐reating a Past in the Present. Memory, Identity and Teaching in Post-Dictatorship Argentina.鈥� AERA Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 04/2009.
鈥淎rgentinity, the Mobilization of the Recent Past and the Responsible Citizen鈥�. 29th Annual Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, Dayton, OH, 10/2008.
鈥淒e V铆ctimas y Resistencias. La Dictadura en las Aulas鈥� [Victims and resistances. The dictatorship in the classroom]. VII Congreso Iberoamericano de historia de la educaci贸n latinoamericana, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 10/2007.
鈥淒e V铆ctimas y Resistencias. El Pasado Reciente en las Escuelas Argentinas鈥� [Victims and resistances. The recent past in Argentine schools]. Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, Madison, WI, 10/ 2007.
鈥淭he Construction of Argentinity Post-2001 and the Debates for a New National Education Law鈥�. World University Network (WUN) Conference. Bergen, Norway, 09/2006.