Kenneth Sider

visiting assistant professor

Office: Palamountain Hall 212
Phone: 518-580-5144
E-mail: ksider@skidmore.edu

Education:

• Ph.D. in Educational Theory and Practice
• M.S., B.A. in Elementary Education
• NYS Certification, Elementary Teacher, Pre-K-6
• NYS Certification, School Counselor, K-6

Ken Sider began his teaching career with brief stints in the U.S. Job Corps system and New York City public schools but was a devoted teacher in rural public elementary schools in Upstate New York. As an elementary school teacher, his classroom was a space for liberatory pedagogy through experiential learning, student-initiated social justice campaigns, projects to promote social responsibility, thematic instruction, arts-integration, artist residencies, community collaborations, disability awareness and advocacy, and democratic classroom principles. 

Dr. Sider served as a lecturer at Hartwick College (1 year) and SUNY Oneonta (18 years) where he taught courses in foundations, philosophy, diversity and inclusion, critical literacy, and social studies. He has been awarded 12 artist residency grants from the NYS Council on the Arts, 3 foundation grants to fund drumming in the elementary classroom, and the NY African Studies Association’s Distinguished Teaching Award. Dr. Sider’s work has been featured in various media including the Washington Post, National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and The Academic Minute, The Asia Society, The Beacon Center (a NSF organization), CBS Evening News, Parent Today (Capital District BOCES magazine), On Board (NYS School Board Association’s magazine), education journals, several edited collections, and books by other authors. 

Research Interests:

• Critical Pedagogy and Critical Race Theory
• Issues in Equity, Access, and Opportunity
• Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
• White Privilege in Teacher Education

Publishing Highlights:

• Sider, Kenneth (2019). White Double-Consciousness: An Analysis of Discourse in Teacher Education.Lexington Books.
• Sider, Kenneth. (2015). The courage to teach. In Bloom, B., Van Slyke-Briggs, K., and Boudet, D. (Eds.), Resisting reform: Reclaiming public education through grassroots activism (17-30), Information Age          
• Sider, Kenneth. (2013, September 25). Teacher Ken Sider’s not-to-miss perspective on classroom modules. The Plain Satisfactions.
• Sider, Kenneth. (2011). Third graders campaigning as disability The Social Science Docket:A Joint Publication of the New York and New Jersey State Councils for the Social Studies, (11)2, 60-62.
• Sider, Kenneth. (2010). Through children’s eyes: Community collaboration for social justice. Social Studies for Young Learners(23)2, 13-17.
• Sider, Kenneth. (2008). Compassion’s echo: Learning about India through experiential. Social Studies for Young Learners, March/April (V)I, 26-29.