1. Jean Anyon, was an American critical theorist and researcher in education, a professor in the Doctoral Program in Urban Education at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, and a civil rights and social activist.
11 Facts About Jean Anyon
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Jean Anyon attended the University of Pennsylvania, earning a bachelor's and a master's degrees in education, and completed her doctoral work at New York University.
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Jean Anyon spent much of her early career at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, and in 2002 joined the faculty at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, where she mentored students and taught courses in social and educational policy and critical social theory.
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Jean Anyon was the recipient of the American Educational Research Association Division G Lifetime Achievement Award and was named an AERA Research Fellow the same year.
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Jean Anyon is renowned for her creative use of historical political economy as a method of analysis.
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In 1980, Jean Anyon published her seminal article, "Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work".
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Additionally, Jean Anyon offers critical analysis of federal, state and local policies, which much educational research fails to fully acknowledge, explicate or interrogate.
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Jean Anyon remained hopeful of the possibility of a counterinsurgency against socially reproductive forces.
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Besides her seminal contributions to education and social policy, Jean Anyon was widely known as an outstanding and supportive mentor.
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Jean Anyon continued to work with doctoral students until the time of her death on September 7,2013, at her home in Manhattan, where she died of cancer.
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Jean Anyon was a professor of social and educational policy at the CUNY Graduate Center until her death in 2013.