Education scholar and researcher on institutional change
Charles Taylor Kerchner is Professor Emeritus in the School of Educational Studies at Claremont Graduate University and a Senior Research Fellow. He has spent much of his career studying how large public institutions change, particularly education systems, teacher organisations, and new forms of learning and work.
He has studied reform in the Los Angeles Unified School District and other large urban school systems, as well as changes in teacher unions and labour relations. He co-authored United Mind Workers: Unions and Teaching in the Knowledge Society and has written for academic journals and Education Week. Before entering university teaching, he worked in higher-education policy and journalism.
Charles holds degrees from the University of Illinois and Northwestern University. He is also a co-author of work on the Humanity Intelligence Academy.
Within Fulfilling Jobs for Peace, his long interest in institutions and work raises a useful question: when the nature of work changes, what else in the surrounding system has to change with it?
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