Awards and Honours

Ideology, Culture and the Process of Schooling named by the American Educational
Studies Association as one of the most significant books in education for 1982.

Theory and Resistance in Education named by the American Educational Studies
Association as one of the most significant books in education for the year 1984.

Education Under Siege (with Stanley Aronowitz) named by the American Educational Studies Association as one of the most significant books in education for the year 1986.

Teachers as Intellectuals named by the American Educational Studies Association as one of the most significant books in education for the year 1988.

Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life named by the American Educational
Studies Association as one of the most significant books in education for the year
1989.

Living Dangerously: Multiculturism and the Politics of Culture named as the "Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights in North America" by Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights, December 10, 1995.

Fugitive Cultures named by the American Educational Studies Association as a 1996
AESA Critics' Choice Award.

Junior Faculty Research Award, 1984-1985.
School of Education and Allied Professions, Miami University.

Distinguished Scholar Award 1984-1986, School of Education and Allied Professions,
Miami University (Ohio).

Renowned Scholar Award 1986-1988, School of Education and Allied Professions, Miami University (Ohio).

Visiting Distinguished Professor Award for 1987-1988, Granted by Chancellor and Board of Trustees at University of Missouri at Kansas City.

Visiting Distinguished Professor, University of San Francisco, July-August, 1990.

The Marshall Fishwick Award for the Best Article on Popular Culture for 1993.
Awarded by The Popular Culture Association at Bowling Green University.

Visiting Professor, Graduate Summer Institute on Language, Culture, and Schooling,
McGill University, July 1994.

Distinguished Visiting Asa S. Knowles Chair Professorship, Northeastern University,
June-August 1995.

Tokyo Metropolitan University Fellowship for Research
August 1995

Selected to the Laureate Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi
January 1998

Distinguished Visiting Lecturer in Art Education
The School of the Art Institute in Chicago
July-August 1998, 1999

Winner of a Getty Research Institute Visiting Scholar Award for May-June, 2000.

Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professorship Award for 2001 at McMaster University
(Canada).

Named as one of the top fifty educational thinkers of the modern period in Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present as part of Routledge’s Key Guides Publication Series (2002)

James L. Kinneavy Award for the most outstanding article published in JAC in 2001.

Presented by the Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition at the Conference on College Composition and Communication Chicago in March 2002.

Barstow Visiting Scholar Award for 2003 at Saginaw Valley State University.

Waterbury Chair in Secondary Education
Endowed Professorship at Pennsylvania State University, 1992 to 2004.

Global Television Network Chair in Communication Studies at McMaster University 2005.

Honorary Doctor of Letters Degree presented by Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundlandan, on Thursday, May 26 2005.

McMaster faculty honored by peers, April 14, 2005.