Mary Brabeck

Mary M. Brabeck, Ph.D. joined The Steinhardt School of Education as dean in October 2003. The Steinhardt School houses approximately 6000 students and 240 full time faculty in education, psychology, the health sciences, music, art and communication. A leader in the field of applied psychology, Dr. Brabeck was the dean of Boston College’s Lynch School of Education from 1996-2003 and a professor of counseling and developmental psychology at Boston College from 1980-2003. Dr. Brabeck is chair and fellow of APA (Divisions 7, 17, 35 and 52). She has published more than 90 journal articles and book chapters. Dean Brabeck’s research interests include intellectual and ethical development, values and conceptions of the moral self, human rights education, professional and feminist ethics, and inter-professional collaboration. Her most recent edited books are Practicing Feminist Ethics in Psychology. (2000, Washington DC: APA) and Meeting at the Hyphen: Schools-Universities-Professions in Collaboration for Student Achievement and Well Being. 102nd Yearbook of the National Society for Study in Education, Part II (2003, Chicago: University of Chicago Press). Dean Brabeck serves as a member of the American Psychological Association’s Board of Educational Affairs, Standing Hearing Panel of the Ethics Committee and Chair of the BEA Task Force on Applications of Psychological Science to Teaching and Learning. She is a member of the Carnegie Corporation’s Teachers for a New Era Research Coordinating Council, the Board of Directors of the National Church Leadership Roundtable and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Society for the Study of Education. Dean Brabeck served as chair of the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education 2004-05 and as a member of the Holmes Partnership Board of Directors. She has received numerous awards including an Outstanding Achievement Award from the University of Minnesota, a Leadership Award from the American Psychological Association Committee on Women in Psychology and the Kuhmerker Award from the Association for Moral Education.
Degrees Held
• M.A. Saint Cloud State University)
• B.A. University of Minnesota)
• Ph.D. University of Minnesota)
Awards
• Service Award (Boston Higher Education Partnership)
• Honorary Member (Golden Key Honor Society)
• Kuhmerker Award (Association for Moral Education)
• Honorary Member (Alpha Sigma Nu-Jesuit Honor Society)
• Teaching Excellence (Boston College School of Education)
• 2006 : University of Minnesota Outstanding Alumni Achievement Award
Publications
• Curriculum Vitae (view)
• Sirin, S., Brabeck, M. M., Sirin-Roges & Satiani, A. (2003). Validation of a measure of ethical sensitivity and examination of the effects of previous multicultural and ethics courses on ethical sensitivity. Ethics & Behavior.
• Brabeck, M. M. & Shirley, S. (2003, January). Excellence in education schools: An oxymoron? Phi Delta Kappan, 368-372.
• Brabeck, M. M. and Rogers, L. (2002). Human rights as a moral issue: Lessons for moral educators from human rights work. Journal of Moral Education, pp. 167-182.
• Brabeck, M. M., Rogers, L. A., Sirin, S., Henderson, J., Bevenuto, M., Ting, K., & Weaver, M. (2000). A measure to assess ethical sensitivity to instances of racial and gender intolerance in schools: The Racial Ethical Sensitivity Test (REST). Ethics & Behavior, 119-137.
• Walsh, M. E., Brabeck, M. M., Howard, K. A., Sherman, F., Montes, C. & Garvin, T. (2000). The Boston College-Allston/Brighton Partnership: Description & Challenges. Peabody Journal of Education. 75, (3), 6-32.
• Walsh, M. E., Brabeck, M. M. & Howard, K. A. (1999). Interprofessional collaboration in children's services: Toward a theoretical perspective. Children's Services: Social Policy, Research and Practice, 2, (4), pp. 183-208.
• Brabeck, M. (1999). Between Scylla and Charybdis: Teacher Education's Odyssey. Journal of Teacher Education, 50, (5), pp. 346-351.
• Kenny, M. E., Lomax, R., Brabeck, M. & Fife. (1998). Contributions of maternal and paternal attachments to continuity and change in psychological well-being in middle adolescence, Journal of Early Adolescence, pp. 221-243.
• Hurd, T., & Brabeck, M. (1997). The ethic of care as revealed in college texts, 1970-1990: An empirical examination of alpha and beta bias. Teaching of Psychology, pp. 159-167.
• Brabeck, M., Walsh, M., Kenny, M. & Comilang, K. (1997). Interprofessional collaboration for children and families: Opportunities for counseling psychology in the 21st century, The Counseling Psychologist, 25, 615-636.
• Brabeck, M. & Ting, K. (1997). Context, Politics and Moral Education: Comments on the Misgeld/Magendzo Conversation about Human Rights Education. Journal of Moral Education, 26, (2), 147-149.
• Johnson, C. E., Stewart, A. L., Brabeck, M. M., Huber, V. S., & Rubin, H. (2005). Interprofessional Collaboration: Implications for combined-integrated (C-I) doctoral training in professional psychology. Journal of Clinical Psychology.
• Shartrand, A. & Brabeck, M. M. (2004). An examination of collaborative research in light of the APA Code of Ethics and feminist ethics. In M. Brydon-Miller, P. Maguire and A. McIntyre (eds.). Traveling Companions. Westport, CT: Praeger, pp. 137-156
• Brabeck, M. M. (2006). Transformative Hope. In K. M. Thies and J. F. Travers (Eds.). the Handbook of Human Development for Health Care Professionals. Thorofare, NJ: SLACK Inc., pp. 477-485
• Brabeck, M. & Latta, R. (2006). A feminist perspective on ethics in human ecology. In J. R. Miller, R. M. Lerner, L. B. Schiamberg, & P. M. Anderson (Eds.), Human Ecology: An Encyclopedia of Children, Families, Communities, and Environments. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio.
• Brabeck, M. M. and Brabeck, K. M. (2006). Women and relationships. In J. Worrell & C.D. Goodhart (Eds.) Handbook of Girls and Women’s Psychology Health: Gender and Well-bing Across the Life Span. Oxford University Press, pp. 208-217.
• Brabeck, M. (2005) Innovate or Perish: New Approaches Urban Education (and why they are needed). FADICA
Courses
• undergraduate and graduate moral development
• undergraduate and graduate personality theories
• graduate psychology of women
• undergraduate and graduate gender roles
• undergraduate and graduate educational psychology
• undergraduate and graduate psychology of learning
• undergraduate child development
• undergraduate counseling psychology
• graduate behavioral counseling
Editorial Boards
• Journal of School Choice, Editorial Board Member
• New Ideas in Psychology, Editorial Board Member
• Society of Psychology of Women Book Series, Editorial Board Member (Editor, 2002-2005)
Research Interests
• values and conceptions of the moral self
• professional and feminist ethics
• intellectual and ethical development
• gender and culture
• interprofessional collaboration