Rosemary Barton Tobin
Professor of Education
B.A., Smith College; M.A.T., Harvard University; M.A., Tufts University; Ph.D., Boston College
Office hours:
Tue 1:00-4:00 pm
Other times by appointment
Office: Administration Building, Room 322
Phone: 617-735-9955
Email: tobin@emmanuel.edu
Rosemary Barton Tobin has taught at Emmanuel since 1976 and during that time frequently chaired the Education Department, served as Director of Weekend Graduate Institutes for Teachers, and as Associate Dean of the Graduate Program from 1999-2001. In addition, Dr. Tobin was last year named to the Commissioner of Education's Task Force on Gifted and Talented Education. Her professional research and writing has been in the area of the History of Ideas, The Classical Tradition, and the History of Education and, most recently, she has been researching the moral implications of high-stakes testing. Her book, Vincent of Beauvais' De Eruditione Filiorum Nobilium: The Education of Women, was a study of seminal theory on the education of women.
Her articles have appeared in journals such as Journal of the History of Ideas, Classical Folia, Educational Studies, The Reading Teacher and History of Education. In addition, she was the recipient of a senior research grant for research on John Dewey and the classical tradition from the Center for Dewey Studies. Her work, "When Quintilian's Daughter Met Shakespeare's Sister: Readings in the History of Education," was developed as a classroom text. She has taught undergraduates and graduates in courses ranging from introductory educational psychology to graduate courses for school administrators. Dr. Tobin served for many years as a trustee at The Winsor School and is currently a trustee of Cathedral High School and Mount Alvernia High School. She also serves as a volunteer for the Massachusetts Office of the Bar Counsel. She and her colleague Louise Cash are the founders of Not Ever Too Late, a professional resource for women. Dr. Tobin is the mother of one daughter, Susannah, a lawyer, and resides with her husband John, a professor, in Belmont.
Courses
EDUC1111 - The Great American Experiment: Education for All in a Diverse Society
EDUC1401 - Educational Psychology
EDUC5107 - Educational Leadership
EDUC5109 - Philosophical Issues in the Schools
EDUC5211 - Reading and Writing in the Upper Elementary Grades
EDUC5301 - Reading in the Secondary School Content Area
EDUC5303 - Secondary School Curriculum
EDUC5305 - Developing Teaching Strategies
EDUC5462 - Captone Project
EDUC5611 - Supervision as a Collaborative Relationship
EDUC5667 - Practicum and Internship in School Administration
FYS 1101 - The Classical Key to the 21st