Brown, Irby Win 2005 Goodsell Award
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Award Winners Genevieve
Brown, left, Beverly Irby |
Two Sam Houston State University College of Education administrators
have been named recipients of the prestigious American Educational
Research Association Willystine Goodsell Award for 2005.
Genevieve Brown and Beverly J. Irby were so honored by the association's
Research on Women and Education Special Interest Group, the
Women Educators Advocacy Group, and the Scholars and Gender
Interest Group.
The association gives the award each year to an outstanding
individual who has contributed to association goals through
scholarship, activism, and community building on behalf of
women and education. Irby and Brown are only the second award-winning
pair in the history of the award.
Brown is dean of the College of Education and Irby chairs
the Department of Educational Leadership & Counseling.
They will deliver the Willystine Goodsell Address in April
2006 at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research
Association meeting in San Francisco.
Their accomplishments which contributed to the award include:
- Co-founders of the course, Women in Educational Leadership
(model used in Texas and the U.S.);
- Co-founders and co-editors of the first online professional
journal for women's and girls' equity issues, Advancing
Women in Leadership Journal (www.advancingwomen.com);
- Co-authors of The Reflection Cycle and the Principal Portfolio
(a feminist concept for self-assessment and self-understanding
for educational leaders), with two books published on the
topic;
- Co-founders of the Texas Council of Women School Executives'
annual monograph series on women in leadership;
- Winners of the Margaret Montgomery Leadership Award (for
the promotion of women in educational leadership);
- Co-authors of The Synergistic Leadership Theory, the only
theory in educational leadership that purposefully includes
the female voice and experience, but that has been validated
for the use by both males and females across ethnicities
and cultures in school leadership;
- Winners of the 2000 American Educational Research Association
Women Educators Advocacy in Education Award;
- Co-authors of seven books and numerous professional journal
articles.
Previous winners of the Willystine Goodsell Award have included
Gwendolyn Baker, former chief executive officer of UNICEF and
the YWCA; Susan Klein, editor of the first handbook on sex equity
in 1985 and now the education equity director of the Feminist
majority; Sandra Hollingsworth, an expert in professional development,
literacy, gender and international education; and Catherine
Marshall, a leader in social justice issues in education.
Willystine Goodsell (1870-1962) was a scholar and teacher who
devoted much of her adult life to the study of and advocacy
for, the education of women. She received all of her degrees
and spent her 31-year career in education at Teachers College,
Columbia University.
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SHSU Media Contact: Frank
Krystyniak
August 25, 2005
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