Karel Rose, Ed.D.
Professor
Childhood Education

Room 2405 James
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11210
718-951-5218
krose@brooklyn.cuny.edu

I believe that good teachers fall in love with teaching. Inextricably hooked to personal belief systems, both loving and teaching, have the potential for altering our lives. Increasingly, I discover that I am unable to separate thoughts and feelings into the neat categories of personal and professional life. When I see wonderful theater, read a great book or have an unusual travel experience, it feeds my teaching. This happens most naturally when I teach the course," The Philosophy, Art and Culture of Teaching." I encourage students to cull from the dailiness of their lives in order to understand complicated theories. The ordinary is transformed into the extraordinary. I too work hard to make that connection. I also teach a course, "Literacy and Education" in which I expose my students to many children’s books reinforcing the notion that this rich literature is not for children only.

I am a graduate of Brooklyn College and have been teaching there for many years. I resigned as Associate Dean of the School of Education because I felt that my greatest contribution was working directly with students. I have served on many school and college committees in various capacities. For the past twelve years, I have been on the College Review Committee which each year evaluates all candidates for tenure and promotion. It is enormously time consuming but very important work in the administration of a college that is dedicated to developing the finest faculty possible. In a working class college, such as Brooklyn, both faculty and students appreciate and honor our diverse student body and the strengths and opportunities for scholarship that such an environment provides.

I am also on the board of the Women’s Studies Program. I have taught courses in the program and am deeply dedicated to their work. My doctoral dissertation was in what was then called "Black Literature" and expressed my deep concern for injustice. The intersection between race, class and gender has been my continuing concern.

Within the last couple of years, my research and writing reflect my interests in the arts. My most recent book, Art, Culture and Education, co-authored with Joe Kincheloe, speaks to the ways in which encounters with the arts nourish both aesthetic and intellectual development. My most recent writing addresses the ways in which a rich aesthetic life and heightened awareness of the moment contribute to artful teaching. To encourage my students to connect the personal and professional aspects of their lives, I do considerable work with personal narrative and memoir. My students often discover a better self as they walk back through the When my students walk back through their lives, writing is a kind of transformation. This is both comforting and self-authorizing and often foreshadows a new vision of a better self.

I am a member of the Doctoral Faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center.

I have been honored to receive:

The Claire and Leonard Tow Award for Most Distinguished Teaching at Brooklyn College (2005)

The Brooklyn College Teacher of Excellence Award (2003)

"Favorite Professor" Brooklyn College Graduating Class, 1999-2000,1994-1995

Most recent publications:

Karel Rose and Joe Kincheloe, Art, Culture and Education: Artful Teaching in a Fractured Landscape, Peter Lang, New York, 2003

Karel Rose, "Philosophy Matters for Teachers" in Classroom Teaching, Peter Lang, New York, April,2005.

Karel Rose, "Everything Changes: Transformative Thinking Through Aesthetic Experience," in Teaching for Aesthetic Experience, Peter Lang, New York, 2003.

Curriculum Vitae

Chalkboard Articles: 
The Power of the Arts in a Fractured World

Honor Thy Teachers:
A Continuing Collaboration

Syllabus: Education 16, MY1
The Art, Philosophy and Culture of Teaching , Spring,2006

Syllabus: Education 37, RZ9  Education and Literacy: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Language Arts
Spring, 2006

 

 

 

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