Alan Wieder, Senior Research Consultant

Alan Wieder is working on field studies of teacher working conditions as an on-site interviewer for a variety of CTQ research projects. In addition, he will contribute to various CTQ publications. Wieder taught at the University of South Carolina for over 20 years where he taught Social Foundations of Education, Antiracist Education, and Qualitative Research. While he has completed numerous studies on race and education in the United States; he has spent the last 10 years working on oral histories of teachers who fought apartheid in South Africa. Wieder's writing includes articles on race and education in the United States, teachers' blending of pedagogy and politics in apartheid South Africa, and qualitative methodology. He has published in numerous tier-one journals including Educational Researcher, Teachers College Record, and Cornell Law Review. In addition, he published two books from his work with South African teachers, Voices from Cape Town Teachers: Oral Histories of Teachers who Fought Apartheid and Teacher and Comrade: Richard Dudley and the Fight for Democracy in South Africa.