Craig Kridel
E. S. Gambrell Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Educational Studies
Curator Emeritus, Museum of Education
University of South Carolina
"One of the conditions of happiness is the opportunity of a calling,
a career which somehow is congenial to one’s own temperament." John Dewey
Education: Biographical Blurb
Craig Kridel is the E. S. Gambrell Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Educational Studies and Curator Emeritus of the Museum of Education, University of South Carolina. His research interests include the history of African American education, progressive education of the 1930-1950s, documentary editing, and educational biography. Recent publications include Harold Taylor and Sarah Lawrence College: A Life of Social and Educational Activism (2022), Becoming an African American Progressive Educator: Narratives from 1940s Black Progressive High Schools (2018), Progressive Education in Black High Schools of the 1940s (2015), the SAGE Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies (2010), McGraw Hill’s Classic Edition Sources: Education (2009), and, with R. V. Bullough, Jr., Stories of the Eight Year Study: Rethinking Schooling in America (2007). Kridel was the founding editor of Teaching Education and served as a columnist for A.S.C.D.'s Educational Leaderhip.
Craig Kridel was graduated from Ohio State University in 1980. Prior to arriving at University of South Carolina in 1984, he was founder and Director of the Institute for the Advancement of the Arts in Education at Ohio State University and served as the Midwest Coordinator of the Society for Educational Reconstructionism.
Kridel's research and service projects have been funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the South Carolina Arts Commission. His publications have received the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education Outstanding Writing Award, the American Educational Research Association-Curriculum Studies Book Award, The Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award, and the Educational Press Association of America Distinguished Achievement Award, and he has received the University of South Carolina College of Education's Research Award and the Leonard Maiden Service Award, The Society of Professors of Education Mary Anne Raywid Award, and the AERA Curriculum Studies Lifetime Achievement Award.
Press photograph 1—full size (March 2020) 
Press photograph 2—full size (March 2020)
Music: Biographical Blurb
Craig Kridel is coordinator of Berlioz Historical Brass [www.berliozhistoricalbrass.org], administrator for Harmoniemusik North America [www.harmoniemusik.org], and a columnist for the International Tuba Euphonium Association Journal. He coordinated the first International Glass Music Festival in 1983 and the first International Serpent Festival in 1989 (commissioning the Proctor Concerto for serpent) and has appeared on BBC, NPR, ABC radio to discuss the revival of interest in historical brass. Dr. Kridel has performed on serpent with the London Serpent Trio and with Peter Schickele-P.D.Q. Bach, has presented at the International Tuba and Euphonium Conference, College Band Directors National Association’s Conference, Historic Brass Society Conference, and the International Double Reed Society Conference, and has served as the Weinstock Artist-in-Residence at Lehigh University and currently serves as serpentist-bass hornist for a Moravian early music chamber orchestra, the Lititz (PA) Collegium. He appears as serpentist on Douglas Yeo’s “Le Monde du Serpent” CD and performed the encore for the 2005 40th Anniversary P.D.Q. Bach Retrogressive concerts and the “call to service” for Pope John Paul II’s American 1987 Ecumenical Service. He received the International Tuba Euphonium Association’s Clifford Bevan Award for Meritorious Work in Low Brass Scholarship, has published various essays throughout the past 25+ years in the International Tuba Euphonium Association Journal’s Historical Instrument column, and prepared the "bass horn" entry for the New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments.
background horn: Christopher's (Monk) Folly 
photo credit: Carl Shuman
Receiving the 2015 AERA Curriculum Studies Lifetime Achivevement Award
Dr. Craig Kridel
University of South Carolina
craig@sc.edu
“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”
Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, Feb. 16, 1946
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