Paradoxes & Praxis: The 21st Century Imperative for Educational Foundations

Louise Anderson Allen


Louise Anderson Allen 
Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at South Carolina State University. A former classroom teacher, school and central staff administrator in the public schools of Charleston, South Carolna, Allen was awarded the first postdoctoral fellowship given my the Avery African American Research Center at the College of Charleston. Her publications appear in the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education, Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and the International Journal of Urban Educational Leadership. She is also the author of A Bluestocking in Charleston: The Life and Career of Laura Bragg and is co-author of Turning Points in Curriculum: A Contemporary American Memoir. 
Louise Anderson Allen began her career in education in elementary schools and contributed to many publications to support the field of Curriculum Studies. Her publications reflect many genres such as women’s studies, feminism, and African American studies. She resides in South Carolina where she has been an administrator and a teacher, and she currently teaches at the University of South Carolina Charlotte.