Dean of Education and Child Life; Associate Professor
Eleonora Villegas-Reimers
(617)879-2168ereimers@wheelock.edu
B.S., Universidad Catolica Andres Bello (Venezuela); Ed.M. and Ed.D. Harvard Graduate School of Education
Eleonora Villegas-Reimers has been the Dean of the School of Education and Child Life since July of 2006. She served as Acting Dean of the Child and Family Studies Division from 2004 until 2006, after having served as the Coordinator for the Child Development and Early Childhood Program, and the Child Development Studies Program since 1998. Dr. Villegas-Reimers joined the faculty of Wheelock College in 1988. Her prior work includes experience as a high-school teacher, an assistant principal, and as acting director of the Office of International Education and as an international student advisor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Since joining Wheelock College, Dean Villegas-Reimers has also served as consultant to a number of international organizations such as UNESCO, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Board on International Comparative Studies of the National Research Council, and the Academy for Educational Development on matters related to education, teacher preparation and development, education for democracy, values education, and multiculturalism.
Her research and publications reflect her interests in improving teacher professional development, particularly in developing countries, and in values education, particularly democratic values and skills. Her publications include the book Teacher Professional Development: An International Review of the Literature (published by UNESCO), and the monograph Educating for Democratic Citizenship in Latin American High Schools: A cross-national study of high school civic education curriculum. She also published the articles “Education for Democracy: Preparing the next generation of democratic citizens,” and “Teacher Training to Teacher Professional Development in an International Perspective” in the Encyclopedia of Education (Second Edition). Her most recent publication is a collaboration with F. Reimers, “School Culture and Democratic Citizenship in Latin America,” which was published in 2006 in Essays in Cultural Change, edited by Kagan & Harrington.
Dr. Villegas-Reimers received the Cynthia Longfellow Teaching Recognition Award at Wheelock College in 1990, served on the Editorial Board of Young Children, and is currently a member of the Board of Families First, and of the CHENEX and Burbank After-School programs.
