SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION

MEET THE FACULTY

Albert Grande, Ph.D.
Professor, SPFE

Bacon Hall 312D
1300 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14222
Phone: 716-878-5629
Fax: 716-878-5833
grandea@buffalostate.edu

EDUCATION
                                                                                   
A. B.,University of Pittsburgh (Honors) 

M.Litt., University of Pittsburgh,Philosophy, History, Literature

M.Ed. University of Pittsburgh,Secondary Education

Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh,Philosophy of Education, Humanities

J.D. SUNY at Buffalo Law School
                                                                                     

COURSES OFFERED

EDF 203: School and Society

EDF403:Historical and Philosophical Forces Affecting Secondary Education 

EDF500: Multicultural Education

EDF525: Philosophy of Education

EDF641:Social Foundations of Education

ELEM.EDU552 School Law


TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
               
Philosophy of Education

Social Foundations of Education

School Law

Humanities Education


GRANTS

  • Paideia Journal ,Buffalo State College Grant, Seed Money for Journal
  • Multiple Grants, Center for Human Growth and Development,Buffalo State College
  • European Study Award,Perugia, Italy,University of Pittsburgh
  • Ford Foundation Teaching Fellowship


SELECTED PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS

  • “Education as a Natural Right," presented July 13, 2005, Oxford Union, St. Anne’ College,Oxford University
  • “Education and the Individual," presented Summer,2001,St. Antony’College,Oxford University                                                                                     
  • "Education as a Natural Right," published in St. John’s Journal of Legal Commentary,Vol.21,Fall,2006
  • “The Shoals of Change," TRADITION, A Journal of Orthodox Thought,Vol.,14, No.4,Fall,1974.
  • “The Individual In Literature:Hamlet and Existentialism," THE ENGLISH EXCHANGE, autumn,1970.
  • “The Decline and Fall of Manners," LIberal Education,Vol.LXIV,No.1March.1978
  • “The Troubled State of Adulthood," Child and Family,Vol.14,No.4,1975.


PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVEMENT

  • Invited Member, Buffalo Municipal Authority
  • Invited Member, Advisory Board,Public Policy Journal
  • Attorneys for Children Panel,Erie and Niagara Counties
  • Panel, Attorneys for Alleged Incapacitated Persons
  • Panel,Assigned Counsel for Indigent Persons, Erie County
     

SERVICE

  • Chair, Foundations of Education 1970-1978
  • Chair, Graduate Committee
  • Pro Bono,representation of indigent persons
  • Counsel for alleged incapacitated persons