Milbrey McLaughlin : Interview for the John W. Gardner Legacy Oral History Project
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Milbrey McLaughlin, the David Jack Professor Emeritus of Education and Public Policy, shares her memories of working with John W. Gardner and describes aspects of her career in the field of education policy, including the founding of the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities. McLaughlin describes how an experience as a college admissions representative who visited high schools throughout the country led to an epiphany about disparities in education and fueled her interest in policy work. She describes the circumstances that led her to leave the RAND Corporation for a position at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education in 1983 and speaks about establishing the federally funded Center for Research on the Context of Teaching when Mike Smith was the dean of the GSE. Turning to John W. Gardner, McLaughlin describes the founding of the John Gardner Fellowship Program and the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities. She describes the importance of the John W. Gardner Center and why its mission mattered to John Gardner and talks about the Youth Data Archive project that the center initiated. She concludes the interview by sharing memories of Gardner and reflecting on his character and legacy.
Description
Type of resource | sound recording-nonmusical, text, still image |
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Extent | 2 audio files; 1 text file; 1 photograph |
Place | Stanford (Calif.) |
Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
Date created | February 21, 2017 - 2017-03-28 |
Language | English |
Digital origin | born digital |
Creators/Contributors
Interviewee | McLaughlin, Milbrey Wallin | |
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Creator | McLaughlin, Milbrey Wallin | |
Interviewer | Abel, Suzanne | |
Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
Subjects
Subject | Gardner, John W. (John William), 1912-2002 |
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Subject | Civil Society > United States |
Subject | Stanford University. Graduate School of Education |
Genre | Interview |
Bibliographic information
Biographical profile | Milbrey McLaughlin, EdD, is the David Jacks Professor Emeritus of Education and Public Policy at Stanford University and the founding director of the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities. She also is co-director of the Center for Research on the Context of Teaching, an interdisciplinary research center engaged in analyses of how teaching and learning are shaped by teachers’ organizational, institutional, and social-cultural contexts. McLaughlin has focused throughout her career on the various institutional contexts and policies that shape youth outcomes--schools and community-based institutions most particularly. The Gardner Center, founded in 2001, embodies McLaughlin’s interest in identifying and understanding the cross-institutional issues that shape with settings within and through which youth move, and in advancing a youth sector stance to inform policy and practice. McLaughlin is the author or co-author of many books, articles, and chapters on education policy issues, contexts for teaching and learning, productive environments for youth, and community-based organizations. Dr. McLaughlin holds an EdM (1973) and EdD (1973) in education policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a BA (1963) in philosophy from Connecticut College. |
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Transcript |
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Finding Aid | |
Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/vp014xy5377 |
Location | SC1355 |
Repository | Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- The materials are open for research use and may be used freely for non-commercial purposes with an attribution. For commercial permission requests, please contact the Stanford University Archives (universityarchives@stanford.edu).
- Copyright
- Copyright © The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
Collection
John W. Gardner Legacy Oral History Project
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