Christopher Bjork
Associate Professor, Coordinator of Teacher Education, and Chair
Office: Old Observatory 209
Phone: (845) 437-7841
Christopher Bjork earned his B.A. in English and his M.A. in liberal studies from Wesleyan University. He completed his Ph.D. in educational anthropology at Stanford University. Certified to teach both elementary and secondary school, he has worked as a classroom teacher in public schools in Japan and the United States, as well as at Nishimachi International School in Tokyo.
His research interests include international and comparative education, educational reform in Asia, educational decentralization, and teaching cultures in Indonesia and Japan. His most recent book is Taking Teaching Seriously: What we can Learn from Educators at Lliberal Arts Institutions. (Paradigm, 2007) He is also the author of the book Indonesian Education: Teachers, Schools, and Central Bureaucracy (Routledge, 2005), and the editor of Educational Decentralization: Asian Experiences and Conceptual Contributions (Springer, 2006) and the co-editor of Education and Training in Japan (Routledge, 1997). His work has also appeared in journals such as Comparative Education Review, Anthropology & Education Quarterly, Phi Delta Kappan, and International Review of Education.