Educational Background
• Ph.D. Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• MS Early Childhood and Elementary Education, Bank Street College of Education
• BA Literature, Sarah Lawrence College
Teaching Profession
Courses regularly taught
• Child Growth and Development
• Curriculum and Teaching in the Elementary Grades
• Qualitative Research Methods
• Introduction to Research in Elementary Education
Current Research Interests
• Social Justice and Education
• Racial identity and teacher education
• Race and qualitative research methodology
• School culture and change
Selected Publications
• Gordon, J., & Patterson, J.A. (in press). “It’s
what we’ve always been doing” Exploring
tensions between school culture and change, Journal of Educational Change.
• Gordon, J., & Patterson, J.A. (2006). School
leadership in context: Narratives of practice and possibility. International
Journal for Leadership in Education 9(3),
205-228.
• Gordon, J. (2005). White on
white: A white researcher explores assumptions
about race, colorblindness, and white privilege in
white schools undertaking reform, Urban Review, 37(4),
279-302.
• Gordon, J. (2005). Inadvertent complicity: Colorblindness in
teacher education. Educational Studies 38(2), 135-153.
