Dr. Peter Hlebowitsh

Dr. Peter Hlebowitsh
University of Iowa

Dr. Peter Hlebowitsh is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Iowa. He received his doctorate from Rutgers University in 1987 in Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education.

Hlebowitsh's research interests reflect work done in the area of curriculum theory and development. Since 1995, Hlebowitsh has helped to co-direct several large-scale curriculum development projects in Central and Eastern Europe, focusing mostly on civic education reforms in post-Soviet societies, including the Czech Republic and the Republics of Armenia and Bulgaria. He is the author of a book on curriculum theory, Radical Curriculum Theory Reconsidered (Teachers College Press, 1993) and an upcoming textbook on curriculum design, Designing the School Curriculum (Allyn Bacon, 2005). He is also on the editorial board of the Journal of Curriculum Studies and a frequent contributor to Curriculum Inquiry.

Hlebowitsh has also maintained a research agenda in the area of educational foundations. He is the author of an education foundations textbook, Foundation of American Education (Wadworth, 2000), and has written several articles dealing with the legacy of the progressive movement in education. He is the immediate past Secretary of the John Dewey Society and the past editor of The John Dewey Society's journal, Education and Culture.