Eva Travers

Eva Foldes Travers is a Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at Swarthmore College, where she has taught since l975. During that time she was Chair of the Program in Education for more than twenty years. Her specialized teaching areas are Urban Education and Educational Policy. In addition, she teaches sections of the Introduction to Education (a course that over l/3 of all Swarthmore undergraduates take), Social Studies Methods workshops, and supervises student teachers. Her research and scholarly writing has included work on teacher quality and teacher education in liberal arts colleges, a longitudinal study of women's personal and political development, and changes in the teaching of history and civic education in Hungary since the democratic transition in l989. Recently, as part of a team of scholars working with Research for Action, her research has focused on aspects of the reorganization and reforms occurring in the School District of Philadelphia under state takeover.