CONTRIBUTOR:
Carol Simon Weinstein
AFFILIATION:
TITLE:
Professor Emerita
DEPARTMENT:
Graduate School of Education
INSTITUTION:
Rutgers
BIOGRAPHY:
Carol Weinstein is professor emerita in the Department of Learning and Teaching at Rutgers Graduate School of Education. She received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Clark University in Worcester, MA, and her master’s and doctoral degrees from Harvard Graduate School of Education. Dr. Weinstein began her research career by studying the impact of classroom design on students’ behavior. She pursued this topic for many years, writing about the ways that classroom environments can be designed to facilitate teachers’ goals and to foster children’s learning and development. Eventually, Dr. Weinstein’s interest in organizing classroom space expanded to include classroom organization and management in general. She is the author of numerous chapters and articles on classroom management and prospective teachers’ beliefs about caring and control, as well as two textbooks on classroom management, one for prospective elementary teachers (with Molly Romano) and one for middle and secondary teachers (with Ingrid Novodvorsky). Most recently, she has focused on the need for “culturally responsive classroom management” or classroom management in the service of social justice. In 2006, Dr. Weinstein co-edited (with Carolyn Evertson) the first Handbook of Classroom Management: Research, Practice, and Contemporary Issues, a compendium of 47 chapters written by scholars from around the world.