| Fenwick
English University North Carolina-Chapel Hill |
 |
Fenwick (Fen) W. English is the R. Wendell Eaves Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has authored or co-authored over twenty books and one-hundred journal articles. Among his books are Educational Administration: The Human Science (1992) and Theory in Educational Administration (1994). Recent journal articles include “A Critical Appraisal of Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot’s Portraiture as a Method of Educational Research” which appeared in the October 2000 issue of Educational Researcher and “A Critical Interrogation of Murphy’s Call for a New Center of Gravity in Educational Administration” which was published in the September 2000 issue of Journal of School Leadership. A Spring 2002 article entitled “The Point of Scientificity, the Fall of the Epistemological Dominos, and the end of the Field of Educational Administration” will appear in Studies in Philosophy and Education.
For his national teaching work Fen was named a Distinguished Professor from the National Academy of School Executives (NASE) of AASA in 1973 and an Outstanding Consultant by ASCD in 1981. In 1988 the Executive Educator magazine named him one of the nation’s top six-inservice speakers. In 1999 Fen presented the J. Lloyd Trump Lecture at the 83rd National Convention of NASSP in New Orleans.
Fen’s scholarship has been presented for many years at UCEA and Division A of AERA. He has served in nearly all practitioner posts in elementary/secondary education including assistant principal, middle school principal, coordinator, director, assistant superintendent and twice superintendent of schools in New York. In higher education he has served as a department chair, dean of a school of education in Fort Wayne, Indiana at a regional campus of Purdue University, and vice chancellor of academic affairs at the same institution.
Fen earned his B.S. and M.S. at the University of Southern California and his Ph.D. at Arizona State University. He is the proud father of seven children and thirteen grandchildren.