Karl Lorenz, Ed.D., Associate Professor, Director Teacher Certification Programs. 
 
Dr. Lorenz was awarded his MA and Ed.D. degrees in Science Education from Teachers College Columbia University.

As the director of teacher certification, his responsibilities include directing the student teaching program, serving as certification officer, and teaching educational research in the 6th-year Certificate of Advance Studies in Administration program.

Prior to his appointment to the Isabelle Farrington School of Education, Dr. Lorenz taught and conducted educational research for eighteen years as a visiting professor in federal universities in the Brazilian states of Bahia and Paraná.While at SHU, Dr. Lorenz has continued his research on the history of science education in Brazil.

He has published numerous book chapters and scholarly articles in Brazilian professional journals, and presented papers at conferences promoted by the International Standing Conference for the History of Education, the Luzo-Brazilian Congress for the History of Education, the Ibero-American Congress on the History of Latin-American Education, and the Brazilian Society of Historical Research, in venues in France, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Portugal, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil and the United S tates.

Dr. Lorenz currently is a member on the editorial boards of the University Press of the Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil, and of the journal published by the Brazilian Society of Historical Research. In addition to his book, written in the Portuguese language titled “Ciência, Educação e Livros Didáticos do Século XIX. Os Compêndios das Ciências Naturais do Collegio Pedro II.,” whose title translates as “Science, Education and Textbooks in the Nineteenth Century.” Dr. Lorenz’s most recent publications in Portuguese include a book chapter that recounts the teaching of the “History of Education” in the United States from 1840 to 1910; a book chapter, in press, that examines the science-humanities debate in secondary education in nineteenth-century Brazil; and a recently published article in the on-line journal of the University of Campinas, Brazil, titled “School Hygiene and Eugenics: The Role of Physical Education in Regenerating the “Brazilian Race.”  

Contact Oakview Building, 225-I Ph: 203-371-7802 Fax: 203-365-7513 Email: LorenzK@sacredheart.edu

Mailing Address: Sacred Heart University Isabelle Farrington College of Education 5151 Park Ave. Fairfield, CT 06825-1000

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