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The University of Georgia |
Educational Leadership |
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Vita |
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Joseph Blase, Ph.D. |
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Joseph Blase is a professor of educational leadership in the College of Education at the University of Georgia. Since receiving his Ph.D. in 1980 from Syracuse University, his research has focused on understanding the work lives of teachers. He has published many studies in the areas of teacher stress, relationships between teachers' personal and professional lives, teacher socialization, and principal-teacher relationships. His work concentrating on school-level micropolitics received the 1988 Davis Memorial Award given up by the University Council for Educational Administration, and his co-authored article published in the Journal of Educational Administration won the W.G. Walker 2000 Award for Excellence. Blase edited The Politics of Life in
Schools: Power, Conflict, and Cooperation (winner of the 1994 Critic's
Choice Award sponsored by the American Education Studies Association, Sage,
1991); co-authored, with Peggy Kirby, Bringing Out the Best in Teachers
(Corwin, 1994, 2000); co-authored with Jo Blase, Gary Anderson, and Sherry
Dungan, Democratic Principals in Action: Eight Pioneers (Corwin,
1995); co-authored with Gary Anderson, The Micropolitics of Educational
Leadership (Teacher College Press, 1995); and co-authored with Jo Blase, Empowering
Teachers (1994, 2000), The Fire is Back: Principals Sharing School
Governance (Corwin, 1997), and Handbook of Instructional Leadership
(1998). His numerous articles appear in journals such as the American
Educational Research Journal and Educational Administration Quarterly.
Dr. Blase is married to Dr. Jo Blase , also a professor of educational leadership at UGA. Dr. Blase’s daughter, Trudy (a psychologist), son-in-law Steve (a lawyer), and their son, Colton (a baby), live in Chattanooga. |