Professor Epstein teaches ED 225 (Education and Social Justice), ED 361 (Curriculum and Pedagogy in the Social Sciences), ED 492 (Student Teaching: Secondary Social Science), ED 373 (Education and International Development) and ED 370 (Images of Children and Schooling in Film). He also teaches IS 222/322 (International Human Rights: An Introduction). He has strong interests in educational policy, comparative and international education, globalization, and children’s rights issues and has taught in Los Angeles, Perth, Australia, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. He also serves on the Scholars at Risk advisory board. His most recent publications include: Recapturing the Personal (Information Age, 2007); The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Children’s Issues Worldwide (2008),“Globalization and Youth: Evolving Understandings,” [Essay Review]. Comparative Education Review, (May, 2009), and Sports as a Metaphor for Comparative Inquiry,” in William James Jacob and John Weidman, eds. Beyond the Comparative: Advancing Theory and its Applications to Practice: A Festschrift in Honor of Roland Paulston (2011).
Articles
Education and Work in Embargoed Cuba, Educational Practice and Theory (2002)
This article examines the relationship between education and work in contemporary Cuba, where due to...
Street Children in Film, Curriculum Inquiry (1999)
In examining the depiction of street children in three classic films: Kids, Pixote, and Salaam...
Educating Street Children: Some Cross-Cultural Perspectives, Comparative Education (1996)
This paper analyzes various institutional responses to homelessness among children and youth as a means...
Contributions to Books
Childhood, Youth, and Globalization: Some Theoretical Perspectives with Reflections on China, Education and Global Cultural Dialogue: A Tribute to Ruth Hayhoe (2012)
This chapter, part of a collection honoring Ruth Hayhoe, is an examination of how consumerism...
Sports as Metaphor for Comparative Inquiry, Beyond the Comparative: Advancing Theory and its Application to Practice (2011)
History of Chinese Education, The World of Child Labor: An Historical and Regional Survey (2009)
The Russian Federation (with Patrick Beary), Greenwood Encyclopedia of Children's Issues Worldwide (2008)
Other
Juvenile Delinquency and Reformatory Education in Chinese Society (1984)
This study analyzes juvenile delinquency and reformatory education issues in the People's Republic of China,...