Karen
E. Bohlin is the former director of the Center for the Advancement of Ethics
and Character. Her dual research interests are how students learn to internalize
virtuous dispositions over time and how literature sheds light on the movement
of the heart towards moral excellence. She is author with Kevin Ryan of
Building Character in Schools (San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 1999)
and its companion Resource Guide (2001). She has also published work
on character education in the Journal of the Association of Teacher Education,
Education Week, the Journal of Education and elsewhere. Dr. Bohlin
is presently completing a book for secondary and postsecondary teachers
of English, Teaching
Literature: Awakening the Moral Imagination (London: RoutledgeFalmer,
2004). A former middle and high school English teacher, Dr. Bohlin has served
on several boards and as an educational advisor on the national, state and
local levels. Dr. Bohlin is a member of the National Schools of Character
Blue Ribbon Panel and the Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) National
Commission on Character Education and currently serves as Head of School
at the Montrose School in Natick, MA. |
