Paul Shaker is the dean of the faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University of British Columbia. He has been a professor and dean specializing in teacher education since his doctoral studies were completed at The Ohio State University in 1975. He has served as head of teacher education at California State University, Fresno, National-Louis University, Minnesota State University, Moorhead, and Mount Union College. Shaker has worked and studied in Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait (as Fulbright Senior Scholar in evaluation). His academic interests focus on curriculum theory, the application of depth psychology to education, and policy studies. Teachers and Mentors (Garland, 1996), a co-edited book on doctoral studies in education, won the 1997 Outstanding Writing Award of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE). Currently, Shaker serves the John Dewey Society as chair of the Dewey Memorial Lecture at the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD). He is also on the board of editors of Teaching Education and Paideia. His recent AACTE Policy Perspective, "Advocacy vs. Authority: Silencing the Education Professoriate," is one of a series of articles exploring the influence of the political right on contemporary education policy.

E-mail Paul Shaker at pshaker@sfu.ca