Laptop Battery Dorinne Dorfman, who earned an Ed.D. in Educational and Leadership Studies in 2004, was recently awarded a Fulbright Scholarship. Dorfman will receive the Fulbright's 2005 junior research award, an honor primarily awarded to recent Ph.D.s and others who are early in their careers.
It is a first for UVMs College of Education and perhaps only the second time at UVM a new doctoral graduate has earned this award.
Dorinne is a dedicated practitioner and scholar who has been able to incorporate what she has learned from her work developing creative service-learning opportunities for high school students passionate about the arts into a research agenda that is international in scope, said Susan Hasazi, UVMs Stafford Distinguished Professor of Leadership and Special Education.
Dorfman is currently director of the Career Academy of the Arts, a program for juniors and seniors passionate about the arts, within the Peoples Academy public high school in Morrisville, Vermont.
During her 10-month fellowship at the Technical University of Berlin in Germany, which begins in September, Dorfman will build on the research she began at UVM.
The Fulbright awards process is very competitive, and I feel extremely lucky, said Dorfman. When I applied, they told me its rare that someone who teaches in a public high school receives a Fulbright usually recipients are tenure-track professors. I think that what made the difference is that I've brought over a million dollars in grants to the school. Among them, Dorfman recently landed a $750,000 21st Century Learning Grant to supplement the high schools after-school programs.
Dorfmans dissertation compared the disciplinary systems in traditional and democratic high schools. My findings were about how everything that goes on in schools informs what goes on in discipline, she says, crediting the concept to Dean of Education at McGill University, Roger Slee. School is the microcosm of society in a democratic high school, discipline is collaboration among the students, teachers, administration and parents.
In Germany she will only be researching democratic schools but, she says, she will be able to compare U.S. and German schools and with the falling of the Berlin Wall, I can look at both East and West German Schools, she says. Ultimately its to test this theory what is it that democratic schools do to impart discipline?
Dorfman lived in Germany as the Wall was coming down, from 1989 to 1992. She speaks fluent German. Her spouse, Oliver Dorfman, is a native of Potsdam, Germany. He and her children Rosalee, 15, and Amadeus, 13, will be joining her during the fellowship.
The Fulbright Program is sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Each year, the traditional Fulbright Scholar Program sends some 800 U.S. faculty and professionals to 140 countries to lecture, do research or participate in seminars, and some 800 foreign faculty come to the U.S.
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