Kevin Zayed

Background

About Kevin Zayed

Kevin S. Zayed is an Assistant Professor in the Teacher Education Program at Bridgewater College. His research interests include the broader history of K-12 and higher education and curriculum reform. More specifically, he focuses on the history of general and liberal education because this is the portion of the curriculum where individuals negotiate, shape, and transmit competing conceptions of culture and citizenship. Dr. Zayed seeks to understand what drives curriculum reform by exploring how underserved populations resisted pressure to conform to standardized courses of study and instead constructed representative and relevant curricula. His writing has been featured in journals such as Perspectives on the History of Higher Education, the Journal of General Education, and the Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education. He has also contributed chapters to volumes including Educating a Working Society: Vocationalism, The Smith-Hughes Act, and Modern America. Dr. Zayed is currently preparing a book-length manuscript tentatively titled Cooperation Without Consensus: Liberal Education and the Politics of Curriculum Reform and co-editing a proposal for a special issue that focuses on diverse approaches to teaching the foundations of education. Prior to joining Bridgewater College in 2021, Dr. Zayed taught at The College of Wooster, Connecticut College, Denison University, the University of Montana—Missoula, and Rockford University. He has taught courses on the historical, philosophical, sociological, legal, psychological, and political foundations of education and supervises student teachers. He has also offered seminars on critical pedagogy, classroom management, and higher education access.