Marguerite W. Penick-Parks

Marguerite Penick-Parks received her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in Curriculum and Instruction. Prior to attending graduate school she worked as a high school teacher in an urban school in Kansas City, Kansas. Dr. Penick-Parks currently serves as Chair of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Her work centers on issues of power, privilege, and oppression in relationship to issues of curriculum with a special emphasis on the incorporation of quality literature in K-12 classrooms. She appears in the movie “Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible” by the World Trust Organization. Her most recent work includes a joint article on creating safe spaces for discussing white privilege with pre-service teachers, and she is an editor of The Sage Sourcebook of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement with Omobolade Delano-Oriaran and Suzanne Fondrie, Everyday White People Confronting Racial and Social Injustice:15 Stories with Eddie Moore, Jr. and Ali Michael (Stylus, March 2015) and the forthcoming The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys with Eddie Moore, Jr. and Ali Michael (Corwin, October, 2017).

Publications

Culturally Engaging Service-Learning With Diverse Communities
Culturally Engaging Service-Learning With Diverse Communities
Omobolade O. Delano-Oriaran, Marguerite W. Penick-Parks, Suzanne Fondrie. © 2018. 359 pages.
Evaluating the experiences of racially marginalized and underrepresented groups is vital to creating equality in society. Such actions have the potential to provoke an interest...