Marta Shaw
Email: gilmara@bethel.edu
Job Titles
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Adjunct Instructor
Ed.D. in K-12 Administration, Graduate School
Ed.D. in Higher Education Leadership, Graduate School
Highlight
Marta Shaw is a lecturer in the Institute of Public Affairs at Jagiellonian University in Poland, and an Adjunct Professor in the Doctor of Education program at Bethel University. Her research has focused on leadership and management of education, comparative and international education, intercultural leadership, and the implications of research in neurobiology for the theory and practice of educational leadership.
Started at Bethel
2015
Education
- Jagiellonian University, Poland - M.A., 2007
- University of Minnesota - Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, 2014
Biography
Marta Shaw was born in Poland during the period of communism and trained as a philologist at one of the oldest universities in Europe, the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. After the fall of communism, she worked at one of the first private colleges in the country, and developed an interest in educational policy. After completing a program in hermeneutics at Bethel Seminary, she enrolled at the University of Minnesota and worked with top educational scholars in the field, doing research in places as far apart as Uganda and Ukraine. She then returned to Poland to work in the educational system in her home country. While most of her research so far has been in higher education, was recently involved in a national effort to reform the model for training and licensing school principals, and her newest research agenda concerns the implications of findings in neurobiology regarding the unity of the intellectual and emotional processes in the brain on the organization of education. She enjoys working with Ed.D. students at Bethel because of their passion for real-world problems, which was what got her into the field and keeps her excited about educational research.
Courses Taught
EDUC818: Comparative Analysis of Issues in Higher Education
EDUC820: Doctoral Research I
EDUC845: Doctoral Research II
EDUC850: Doctoral Research III
Awards
University of Minnesota Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Corcoran Research Travel Award
Presentations
Shaw, M. & Kolodziejczyk, J. (2016) Implicit Leadership Theory in Polish Education. 60th Annual Meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society. Vancouver, Canada, 6-10 March 2016
Shaw, M. (2015) Pursuing Truth or Maximizing Returns: Polish Academic Elites’Conflicting Conceptions of University Mission. European Conference on Educational Research: Education and Transition. Contributions from Educational Research. European Educational Research Association. Budapest, Hungary, 7-11 September 2015
Shaw, M. & Kołodziejczyk, J. (2015) Global Legitimation and Locally-Endorsed Leadership Attributes: Tensions in Polish Educational Leaders’ Definitions of Leadership. European Conference on Educational Research: Education and Transition. Contributions from Educational Research. European Educational Research Association. Budapest, Hungary, 7-11 September 2015
Dorczak, R., Kołodziejczyk, J., Kołodziejczyk, J., Mazurkiewicz, G. & Shaw, M. (2015) Basic leadership values: Learning and development. Example from Poland. Annual conference of the European Network for Research and Development in Educational Leadership and Management. Malahide, Ireland, September 17-19, 2015
Lenartowicz, M. & Shaw, M. (2014). Humboldtian before von Humboldt was born: European universities from a social systems perspective.Organizing Education. Sociological Approaches, Analyses and Findings. Sociological Association of Switzerland (SGS), Sociological Association of Germany (DGS), and Sociological Association of Austria (ÖGS). Basel, Switzerland, June 13-14, 2014
Shaw, M. (2014). Between academic oligarchy and the free market: Hybrid visions of higher education governance in Poland. Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society. Toronto, Canada, March 10-15, 2014
Shaw, M. (2014). Beyond instrumental rationality in post-socialist educational research. Eurasia Special Interest Group Pre-Conference Workshop. Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society. Toronto, Canada, March 10-15, 2014
Shaw, M. (2013) A tale of two strategies: University governance reform in Poland. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society. New Orleans, LA, March 10-15, 2013
Rumyantseva, N.; Chapman, D.; Shaw, M. (2013) A case of change in higher education: University lost in a limbo? Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society. New Orleans, LA, March 10-15, 2013
Shaw, M. and Lee, A. (2012) Discourses of diversity and equity in higher education: Student conceptions of diversity. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Higher Education. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA: November 14-17, 2012.
Hakkola, L; Shaw, M.A. (2012) Reconsidering graduate education review and improvement: A pilot evaluation. 26th Annual Conference of the American Evaluation Association. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; October 24-27, 2012
Ropers-Huilman, R.; King, J.; Hakkola, L; Shaw, M.A. (2012) Defining and measuring quality in graduate education for the 21st century. 26th Annual Conference of the American Evaluation Association. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; October 24-27, 2012
Shaw, M.A. Competing Visions of Higher Education Governance in Poland (2012). Annual Meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 22-26 April 2012
Shaw, M.A. East meets West? Past and prospective trajectories in Ukrainian higher education governance (2012). Annual Meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 22-26 April 2012
Anderson, M.S.; De Vries, R; Campbell, E.; Chapman, D. W., Chiteng Kot, F., Shaw, M A. Lepkowski, C. C. Authorship across borders. Presented at the Annual Meeting of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. Raleigh, North Carolina, November, 2011.
Shaw, M.A; Chapman, D. W., Rumyantseva, N. (2011) Trap of conflicting demands: The academic workplace in Ukraine since Bologna. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society, Montreal, Canada, 1-5 May 2011
Shaw, M.A.; Chapman, D. W.; Rumyantseva, N. (2011) Organizational Culture in the Adoption of the Bologna Process: A study of Academic Staff at a Ukrainian University. Presented at the American Educational Research Association conference, New Orleans, USA, 8-12 April 2011
Anderson, M.S.; Shaw, M.A. (2010) A Framework for Examining Codes of Conduct on ResearchIntegrity. Presented at the Third World Conference on Research Integrity, Singapore, July 2010
Rumyantseva, N.; Chapman, D.W.; Shaw, M.A. Academic Workplace in the Steep Hierarchical System: A case of Ukraine. Presented at XIV World Congress of Comparative Educational Societies, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2010
Professional Organizations, Committees, and Boards
Comparative and International Education Society - http://www.cies.us (member)
Fala Association for youth leadership development - http://fala.net.pl/
Association of Creative Local Initiatives - http://slot.art.pl/en
Hobbies and Interests
Marta enjoys traveling around Europe with her sons and husband, discussing theology, and meeting new people from around the world. She gets a lot of inspiration out of her volunteer role as curator of the lecture hall at Slot Art Festival, the largest alternative culture festival in Poland.
Research interests
- Leadership and management of education - Comparative and international education - Culture and leadership - Neurobiology and educational leadership
Quote
It is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)