James Christopher Head
Student/ Adjunct, Psychology/ Interdisciplinary Studies
I am a fourth year doctoral student in the Critical Social/Personality Psychology Program at the Graduate Center, CUNY. My research focuses on the various ways in which conceptual frameworks and implicit ideologies are formalized and perpetuated by institutions and internalized and resisted by people. I have conducted research that examines how educators negotiated a newly implemented teacher evaluation program and how these negotiations manifested as experiential narratives. To compliment that project, I am, with Karyna Pryiomka, investigating and visualizing the narrative construction of the education policy reform landscape in NYC’s most prominent media outlets. I have also conducted historical research on experiential and personal research methods prior to qualitative methodology’s emergence in the field of psychology. Beyond my interest in narrative psychology, and more broadly, in qualitative inquiry, I am also focused on developing and utilizing psychologically sound pedagogical practices. Over the past decade I earned Masters Degrees in both education and psychology and have taught a variety of courses at the secondary and college level. I am currently teaching in the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at John Jay College.
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