Kate Phillippo, PhD, LCSW
Professor
Schools of Social Work and Education (Joint Appointment)
Dr. Phillippo's work as a scholar centers youth experience of schools and schooling, policy and practice attunement to youth needs, and on pushing social workers in schools to help make schools growthful places for young people by enacting social work values, which will at times clash with how schools work. As an instructor, she helps school social work candidates learn concrete practices to use in schools. She equally prioritizes socio-political education, aimed at helping candidates think critically about their positioning in schools so that they may use it to promote inclusive and empowering youth development through their work at micro-, meso- and macro-levels. With policy and research methods students, she enacts social work values by humanely supporting student efforts to build skills, understands school spaces and education policy in context and act accordingly to promote racial and justice, and charts the course for the career opportunities they seek.
Research Interests
- School Social Work
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Macro Policy
- Education Policy
Courses Taught
School of Social Work Graduate Courses
- SOWK 609: Social Work in Schools
- SOWK 819: Qualitative Research Methods
- SOWK 822: Organizational Analysis
School of Education Graduate Courses
- ELPS 410: Sociology of Education
- ELPS 412: Urban Education Policy
- ELPS 500: Race and Schooling in the United States
- ELPS 512: The School as an Organization
- ELPS 514: The Sociology of Teaching
- RMTD 420: Building a Body of Evidence with Qualitative Methods
School of Education Undergraduate Courses
- ELPS 219: History of American Education
- ELPS 240: Urban Education: Policy and Practice