Professional Background
Professor of Education
Educational Background
License-ès-Lettres, Université d'Aix-Marseille
M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago
Scholarly Interests
Culture, communication, and education with special attention to comparative and historical conditions. Polity and community theory, particularly as it applies to families, their immediate situations, and their positions in a global humanity as the joint production of all involved.
Selected Publications
Americans Together: Structured Diversity in A Midwestern Town. (1977).
American School Language: The Rhetorical Structuring of Daily Life in a Suburban High School.: (1983)
Symbolizing America. (Editor. 1986)
Ambiguous Harmony: Family Talk in America (1992).
Successful failure: The School America builds, with Ray McDermott , 1998).
Alternative anthropological perspectives on education (Editor, Volume 1 of the Perspectives on Comprehensive Education, co-edited with Edmund W. Gordon. 2008)
Theoretical Perspectives on Comprehensive Education: The Way Forward. (co-editor with Edmund W. Gordon, Volume 2 of the Perspectives on Comprehensive Education, co-edited with Edmund W. Gordon. 2009)
Herve H Varenne
Professor of Education
Phone: 212-678-3190
Email:
Web site: http://varenne.tc.columbia.edu
Office Hours: Tues: 2:30-4:30 & Thurs: 2:00-3:00 (walk-in); Wed by appt., contact hhv1@columbia.edu
Office Location: 378 Grace Dodge