Louise Swiniarski

Louise Swiniarski, Professor Emerita, received her Ph.D. and B.S. degrees from Boston College and her M.Ed. from Salem State University.  As a Professor in the School of Education, Dr. Swiniarski coordinated the Salem State Student Teaching Program in England and the Graduate and Undergraduate Early Childhood Education programs. She has taught courses on  Childhood Education and Practices, Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Education, and Global Education. She was  a Visiting Professor in the UK at Leeds Becket University as well as an Invited Speaker at Bradford College and Leeds Trinity University, also in the UK. Closer to home, Harvard University's Graduate School of Education appointed her as a Visiting Practitioner for its Principals' Center. She is an author of several books and articles on her field of interests. She served on advisory boards for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Departments of Early Education and Care, Secondary and Elementary Education, and Higher Education on Global Education and Early Education as well as on local community boards. Internationally she is an education advisor to the Science Art and Writing Trust at the John Innes Centre in Norwich UK , where she recently spoke to its board on SAW's partnership's past and present programs with Salem State..

Dr. Swiniarski was awarded a scholarship from the Government of Finland for research on its educational programs. Other grants funded her research projects that she shared at international and national conferences, such as Elizabeth Peabody's and William Wordsworth's twenty years of correspondence, given at two conferences for the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere, UK. She has been the co-director of the Northeast Global Education Center at Salem State University with a grant from the Massachusetts Global Education Consortium at Framingham State University. Likewise, Dr. Swiniarski  received grants from the Francis Dewing Foundation for the development of global education curriculum in Early Education.  As an Editorial Board member for the Springer publication "Early Childhood Education Journal", she is involved in current educational practices and issues.

She is  a recipient of several professional awards including the Outstanding Educator's Award from the Salem State Friends of the School of Education,the Salem State  Graduate School Award for Excellence, and a Distinguished Service Award for Massachusetts State College Faculty.  For her accomplishments, Boston College honored her as one of its "Fifty Faces of the Lynch School of Education".

With an interest in international education, her career has taken her to many corners of the globe developing courses, promoting school projects, researching, lecturing, and presenting papers at International Seminars and Conferences in Great Britain, Switzerland, New Zealand, South Africa, Sweden and Finland whose influences inspried her recent books," World Class Initiatives and Practices in Early Education: Moving Forward in a Global Age" (2014) and  "Early Years Pioneers in Context:Their Lives,Lasting Influence and Impact on Practices Today" (2017).

 Dr. Swiniarski, a frequent lecturer, has recently been invited to be the Key Note speaker for the 2018.Internatinal Norfolk Conference hosted by the University of East Anglia

 Selected  Publications:

Jarvis, Swiniarski, Holland, (2017) '"Early Years Pioneers In Context". Routledge UK.

Swiniarski,L.(ed.) (2014) " World Class Initiatives and Practices in Early Education. Moving forward in a Global Age". Springer Publisher.

Jarvis,Newman, Swiniarski (April 2014).  On becoming social: The importance of collaborative free play in childhood, "International Journal of Play", 3.3.

Swiniarski,L. (March 2012). Building a global bookshelf: In recognition of the United Nations Literacy Decade 2003-2012. "Early Childhood Education Journal", 40.1.

Brock, Rankin, Swiniarski (2011). Are We Doing It by the Book?  Professional Ethics for Teachers and Librarians in the the Early Years. In Campbell and Broadhead (eds.). "Working with Children and Young People:  Ethical Debates and Practices across Disciplines and Continents", Oxford, UK: Peter Lang, pp. 115-136.

Brock and Swiniarski. (2008). " An international teaching partnership's ideas to transform early education practices  for global understanding and cultural sensitivity"  in "Education 3-13",36,3.

Breitborde and Swiniarski.  (2006). "Teaching on Principle and Promise: The Foundations of Education". Boston: Houghton Mifflin..

Swiniarski and Breitborde, (2003). Educating the Global Village, 2nd Ed. Upper Saddle, NJ: Pearson, Merrill-Prentice Hall.

Recent  Invited Presentations:: Spring 2018

Swiniarski, L. Key Note Speaker for the" International  Norfolk Conference" on" The Importance of International and Collaborative Learning "at the University of East Anglea  UK, March 21, 2018..

Swiniarski,L.Co- Speaker on"Science Art and Writing:Project SAW" with Professor A. Osbourn and Dr. J.Rant of the John Innis Research Center of Norwich, UK.,  for the International Norfolk Conference at UEA, March 21, 2018.

Fall, 2017.

Swiniarski, L. (October 1,2017)."Exploring Philosophical Equity Practices for Kindergarten Children and their Families to Avoid the Patch Work Quilt.".  New England Philosophy of Education Society Conference, Harvard University School of Education, October 21,2017.

Swiniarski, L. (March 11, 2017) "Charlotte L. Forten, Her Early Years in Salem as an Educator and Civil Rights Advocate". 20 17 Southern History of Education Society Conference, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

Fall 21016

Swiniarski, L. (October 2016). "Making American Preschools Univerisal with a Philosophical Foundation for Practices and Policies". New England Philosophy of Education Society Conference. University of New Hampshire, NH.

Swiniarski, L (September 2016). "Elizabeth Peabody Founder of the American Kindergarten Movement., Women's Material Cultures and Environments Conference, Leeds, UK.

Swiniarski, L. (March 2016). "Elizabeth Peabody and Susan Blow, Educators and Promoters of Equal Public Support for American Kindergartens", Southern History of Education Annual Conference, University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Park  Campus, Long Beach, Miss.

Spring and Fall, 2015 

Swiniarski, L. (October, 2015) "Elizabeth Peabody and Susan Blow: 19th Century Philosophers and Promoters for Public Support of the American Kindergarten", Annual New England Philosophy of Education Society Conference, Central Connecticut University, New Britain, CT.

Swiniarski, L.(April, 2015) " Founders of American KIndergartens and Training of Kindergartens". International Society for Education Biography 28th Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO.

Swiniarski, L. and Breitborde, M. (March, 2015) "Radical Social Purpose in 19th Century Teacher Education:Normal School Graduates in the Education of the Freed People-; Part 2 Charlotte Louise Forten: The Salem Years". The Arc of Teacher Education, Bridgewater State University, MA.

Fall and Spring 2014

Swiniarski, L. (September 2014)." Managing and Coordinating Community Relations: Global Education and Leadership Seminar for Nigerian Educators". Bertolon School of Business, Salem State University, MA.

Swiniarski, L (October 2014). "Does the Birth to Eight Initiative Lead to the Well Being of American Children?". Leeds Trinity University, Leeds, UK.

Swiniarski, L.(November 2014)."Building a Global Bookshelf: Linking Standards" 7th Annual Best Practices in Education-Educators Together Confernce, Salem State University, MA.

Swiniarski,L.and Breitborde, M. (April 2014). "A Biography in Black and White: Class and Gender in the Formation of Two Abolitionists Teachers-Forten in the North: The Company She Kept", Presentation Paper 1. International Society for Education Biography 31st Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada.

On a personal note as a life long resident of Salem, Massachusetts, I live in Salem with my husband, Joe. We have two sons, and gradnchildren, all who give great joy to my life. Another joy I discovered is running. You might see me running the streets of Salem in training for some race a friend has convinced me to do. You are welcome to jog along.