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Peter Kuriloff
Professor
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Education
Antioch College, B.A., 1965
Harvard University, Ed.M. 1966
Harvard University, Ed.D. 1970
Areas of Expertise
Gender dynamics and education
Learning and emotional development
Group dynamics
Professional Biography
Dr. Kuriloff earned his doctorate in counseling psychology and is a fellow of the American Psychological Association in School Psychology. He has taught at the
University
of
Pennsylvania
since 1970 and twice chaired the Psychology in Education Division. He moved to the Educational Leadership Division (now the Foundations and Practices of Education Division) in 1992. Besides teaching at GSE, Dr. Kuriloff is the senior advisor on Group Effectiveness and Career Development in Wharton’s Executive MBA program. He has held a number of University-wide positions, including chair of the Grievance Commission, chair of the Senate Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility, and chair of the Faculty Senate.
Research Interests and Current Projects
Dr. Kuriloff’s interests include gender dynamics (masculinities, femininities, and school gender “offers”) and their impact on the opportunities of children; minority retention in schools and colleges; and, in general, the reinvention of schools as more inclusive, open, generous, and effective places for the children who inhabit them. His research has involved the study of learning and teaching in small groups, the impact of legal reform on educational practice including the effectiveness of various kinds of dispute resolution in public schools, the nature of parent-child communications about human sexuality, the organizational and educational consequences of parental involvement in public schools, and most recently, the impact of various constructions of masculinity on boys’ learning and emotional development. In his capacity as research director of the Center for the Study of Boys’ Lives, a coalition of independent schools, he fosters teacher-initiated research to discover and implement best practices for boys and girls.
Courses Taught
EDUC 609: Counseling for Educators
EDUC 681: Leadership of Educational Institutions
EDUC 800: Leading Teams and Fostering Learning Communities
Selected publications
Fine, M., & Kuriloff, P. (Guest Editors). (2006). Special Section: Masculine Identities within Social Spaces, Men and Masculinities, 257-330.
Taylor, F. N., Smith, K. K., & Kuriloff, P. J. (2004). Anatomy of a casualty. In, S. Cytrynbaum & D. A. Noumair (Eds.), Group dynamics, organizational irrationality, and social complexity: Group relations reader 3.
Pluhar, E., & Kuriloff, P. (2004). What really matters in family communications about sexuality? A qualitative analysis of affect and style among African American mothers and adolescent daughters. Sex Education.
Reichert, M., & Kuriloff, P. (2004). Boys’ selves: Forging identities in the looking glass of school life. In Teacher College Record.
Kuriloff, P., & Reichert, M. (2003). Boys of class, boys of color: Negotiating the academic and social geography of an elite independent school. In The Journal of Social Issues.
McGrath, D., & Kuriloff, P. (1999). Knocking the girls off the basketball court: Unnatural selection as a consequence of taste on an unsupervised playground. In School Community Journal.
McGrath, D., & Kuriloff, P. (1999). They’re going to tear the doors off this place: Upper-middle class parents’ school involvement and the educational opportunities of other people’s children. In Educational Policy.
Kuriloff, P., & Goldberg, S. (1997). Is mediation a way to resolve special education disputes?: First empirical findings. In Harvard Negotiation Law Review.
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