Curriculum Vita
Daniel A. McFarland
Assistant Professor of Education
Assistant Professor of Sociology (by courtesy)
Stanford University
485 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
phone: (650) 723-1761
Fax: (650) 725-7412
email: [email protected]
Website - http://ed.stanford.edu/~mcfarland/
Last Update – March 3, 2002
Education
Doctorate: Sociology, University of Chicago, received 12/99.
Masters: Sociology, University of Chicago, received 6/95.
Bachelors: Philosophy, University of Chicago, received 6/93.
Publications
McFarland, Daniel. 2001. “Student Resistance: How the Formal and Informal Organization
of Classrooms Facilitate Everyday Forms of Student Defiance.” Forthcoming in the
November issue of the American Journal of Sociology.
McFarland, Daniel A. 2002. “When Tensions Mount: Conceptualizing Classroom Situations
and the Conditions of Student-Teacher Conflict.” Forthcoming in Edited volume in
Robert Dreeben’s honor (Title to be announced). Maureen Hallinan (ed).
Papers in Process
McFarland, Daniel. 2001. “Classroom Situations and Multivocal Success: Using Interaction
Frameworks and Role-Distance to Characterize Classroom Behavior.” Currently
being revised for resubmission.
-----. 2001. “Resistance as a Ritual Process: Student Defiance and Teacher Framing
Strategies.” Currently being revised for resubmission.
-----. 2002. “The Paradox of Student Engagement: How the Informal Organization of
Adolescents Trumps the Formal Organization of Schooling.” Working paper.
-----. 2002. “Curricular Flows: Trajectories, Turning Points, and Assignment Criteria in
High School Math Careers.” Under Review.
McFarland, Daniel and Simon Rodan. 2001. “Did They Follow a Rule or Make a Decision?
Educational Mobility Patterns and the Problem of Embeddedness.” Currently being
revised for resubmission.
Invited Papers / Presentations / Discussant
March 2002. Guest Speaker at the Center for Adolescence – Talk on “Student Resistance to
Learning.” Stanford University.
November 2001. University of Notre Dame – retirement of Robert Dreeben. “Curricular
Mobility: The Anatomy of High School Mathematics Careers.”
October 2001. “Simulation and Network Models o Organizational Careers: A Study of
Curricular Mobility in High School Mathematics,” at the University of Chicago
Workshop on Organizations and State Building (October 8).
August 2001. Invited discussant for the Third Knowledge and Economy (Knexus) Research
Symposium “Ideas about Social, Political and Economic Change: Theory and
Empirical Evidence.” Discussant of session “Operationalizing Networks: Concepts,
Measurements, Modeling.” Stanford University.
July 2001. American Institutes for Research. “Student Resistance: How the Formal and
Informal Organization of Classrooms Facilitate Everyday Forms of Student
Defiance.”
January 2001. Superintendents’ Roundtable at Stanford School of Education. “Classroom
Dynamics of Engagement and Resistance to Learning.”
Conference Presentations
“Vectors of Classroom Interaction.” 2001. Paper presented at the annual American
Educational Research Association conference.
“The Teacher-Student Role-Frame: Relations of Exchange and the Balance of Multiple Role
Considerations.” 2000. Paper presented at the American Sociological Association
conference, Washington, D.C.
“Patterns of Curricular Mobility: A New Look at Curricular Differentiation.” 2000. Paper
presented at the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans,
Louisiana.
“Organized Behavior in Social Systems: A Study of Student Engagement and Resistance in
High Schools.” 1999. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Sociology, The University
of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
“Student Resistance and Teacher Framing Strategies.” 1999. Paper presented at the
American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL.
“Student Engagement in Learning.” 1998. Paper presented at the American Educational
Research Association, San Diego, CA.
“Curricular Mobility.” 1998. Paper presented to the Spencer Foundation Winter Forum,
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
“Situating High School Curricula.” 1996. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the
American Sociological Association, New York, NY.
“The Institutional Order and the Interaction Order of High Schools.” 1996. Paper presented
at the University of Chicago’s Spring Institute, Chicago, IL.
“Network Analyses of High School Curriculum.” 1996. Paper presented at the American
Educational Research Association, New York, NY.
“Suggestions For Classroom Management: Network Analyses of Student Resistance to
Learning.” 1995. Paper presented at the Society for the Study of Social Problems,
Washington, D.C.
“Pulling Them Along: Multiple Network Analyses of the Classroom Situation.” 1995.
Paper presented at the University of Chicago’s Spring Institute, Chicago, IL.
“Multi-Level, Multi-Method, Multi-Network Analyses of the High School System.” 1995.
Unpublished Master’s Thesis and former Ogburn-Stouffer Center Discussion Paper,
Chicago, IL.
“Adolescents and their Membership Affiliations: A Network Study of Cedar High’s Course
Curriculum, Extra-Curricular Activity Structure, and Friendship Relations.” 1995.
Poster presented at the Society for Research on Child Development, Indianapolis,
IN.
Courses
Traditions of Microsociology (Fall 2000 – to be taught in Winter 2004)
Contemporary Microsociology (Fall 2001 – to be taught in Spring 2004)
Network Analysis of Formal and Informal Organizations (Winter 2001, 2002 – to be taught
again in Spring 2003, 2005)
Sociology of Education: The Social Organization of Schools (Spring 2001 – to be taught
again in Spring 2002, 2003)
Youth Development Seminar (Winter-Spring 2002 - to be taught in Fall-Spring 2002-3)
Sociology and Education Workshop (to be taught in Spring 2004)
Current Projects
(1)
(2)
Principal Investigator of John Gardner Center Project – “Contexts of Youth
Development.” This is a multidisciplinary project (with Milbrey McLaughlin) that
includes around 30 different participants, 20 of which are students and 10 of which are
faculty or staff.
Principal Investigator of Project – “Social Networks and Student Resistance in Two
High Schools.” This is my own study developed from prior dissertation research. I
draw on this data for most of my current work.
Professional Experience
2001
Visiting Scholar at the Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico (June 15-30).
2000-current Assistant Faculty Member at Stanford University in the School of Education
and Sociology (by courtesy).
1999-2000
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Educational Initiatives,
Program on the Social Organization of Schools, University of Notre Dame,
Maureen T. Hallinan, Director.
1998-1999
Member of Manuscript Review Board for the American Journal of
Sociology, University of Chicago.
1998
Robert E. Park Lecturer, Sociology 242 (Small Group Dynamics),
The College at the University of Chicago.
1997-1998
Principal investigator of project on Student Engagement in High Schools.
Employed and managed 6 research assistants who coded and transcribed
data for my dissertation.
1996-97
1993-96
Field worker, data collector, and ethnographer. I collected data from two
high schools using school records, surveys, interviews, and observation
(over 180 classrooms in sample).
Research Assistant, Ogburn-Stouffer Center (OSC), The University of
Chicago Study of Youth and Social Development. Principal Investigators:
Charles E. Bidwell, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Larry Hedges,
and Barbara Schneider.
Academic Honors and Awards
Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, Gift Awarded in 2001-2 to develop an
interdisciplinary seminar on youth development issues and the analysis of
Adolescent Health Data (With Milbrey McLaughlin, $14,500).
Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society, Research Grant 2001-2002
($6,000).
Dissertation, “Organized Behavior in Social Systems: A Study of Student Engagement and
Resistance in High Schools,” given highest rating by committee, 1999.
Robert E. Park Lectureship, University of Chicago, Spring 1998 ($3,000).
Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 1997-1998 ($17,000).
National Science Foundation, Dissertation Support Grant, 1996-1997 ($7,500).
The University of Chicago Phoenix Graduate Scholarship, 1994-1997 (Stipend).
The University of Chicago Century Graduate Fellowship, 1993-1997 (Tuition).
University Service / Committees
Member of the Leadership Search Committee (with Milbrey McLaughlin, Walter Powell,
and Linda Darling-Hammond), 2001-2.
Member of the Technology Advisory Board for School of Education, Stanford University,
2001-present.
Member of the Library Advisory Committee for School of Education, Stanford University,
2001-present.
Member of the Committee on Educational Policy (Elected Committee), Stanford School of
Education (CEP), 2001-present.
Member of the Faculty Advisory Group for the John Gardner Center, Stanford University,
2001-present.
Professional Affiliations
American Educational Research Association (1995-present), American Sociological
Association (1994-present), Gardner Center at Stanford University (2001-present),
KNEXUS program on Knowledge and Economy at Stanford University (2000-2001).
Journal and Grant Reviewing
American Journal of Education, American Journal of Sociology, Sociology of Education,
Social Psychological Quarterly