Education & Human Development

Faculty & Staff

Sydney Carroll
sydney.carroll@umit.maine.edu

Shibles Hall
University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469-5766

(207) 581-2490

Title
Associate Professor
Counselor Education

Education
BA Calif. State Univ.
MS Univ. of Rochester
Ph.D University of Rochester '93: Human Development in Educational Contexts

Specialty Areas

• Compassion Fatigue
• Human-Animal Bonds in Wildlife Rehabilitation
• Moral and Ethical Issues in Academic Animal Studies Movements
• Humane Education and Humane Schools Climate
• Human-Animal Interaction Studies
• Humane Work Enviroments
• Critical Theories of Human Development

Courses taught

• Established Theories of Counseling
• Research Seminar in Counselor Education
• Developmental Theories for Counselors
• Multicultural and Social Foundations of Counseling
• Doctoral Seminar in Counselor Education
• Recent Developments in Counseling Theory
• Social Contexts of Education
• Honors-The Development of Western Thought
• Educational Practicum (Outreach)
• AVS 368/590 - Animal Abuse: A Multicultural and Interdisciplinary Inquiry

Research & public service
RESEARCH

• Gender issues in Academic Animal Studies Movement
• Liberating Scholarly Precedent
• Academic Activism
• "The significance of human-animal interaction studies for a humane education curriculum," UMaine faculty research award, Summer 2000
• Critical theories of human development
• peer and collegial relationships
• school culture

PUBLIC SERVICE

• Advisory Board for the Institute for Humane Education
• Summer Volunteer at Avian Rehabilitation Center
• 2006: Appointed to Board of Directors for Live Oak Alliance, a nonprofit organization focusing on humane and ethical education for marginalized urban community members in wilderness settings to teach leadership, empowerment, conflict transformation and environmental preservation.
• Foxwell & Davies Editorial Committees Member for the ASA subgroup on Animals and Society
• Association Editor of Animal Liberation Philosophy and Policy Journal
• Board of Counseling Professionals Licensure
• Editorial Board of Journal of Humanistic Education and Development
• Former Vice President and Current Advisor to International Institute of Human Development

Representative publications

• (2007) Rare Intimacies: Wild Bird Rehabilitation, Encyclopedia of Human-Animal Relationships
• (2006) "One Last Time," Journal of Poetry Therapy (19)
• (2003) "To Get To The Other Side," Maine Scholar (15) 273-83.
• (2002) "Horrified Fascination: Deciphering the Shiva Dream," Voices: A Journal of the American Academy of Psychotherapists. Fall 2002: (15) 273-83.
• (2002) "Humane Education and Humanistic Philosophy: Towards a New Curriculum", Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development
• (1999) A critical social interactionism for counseling (book chapter) in Counseling and the Therapeutic State
• (1998) "The soul of a teacher," Journal of Maine Education, Vol. XIV
• (1997) Context and individualism, International Journal for the Advancement of Counseling
• (1997) On understanding the processes and consequences of peer rejection, School and Community Journal
• (1996) A sociological perspective on contextualism, Journal of Counseling and Development

Presentations

• "Academic Activism: The Challenge to Liberate Scholarly Precedent" delivered at the "Bringing Human-Animal Studies into the Academy: Issues and Moral Dilemmas" hosted by University of Maine Human/Animal Bonds Group and sponsored by the Institute of Critical Animal Studies on April 7, 2007
• "Beyond Compassion Fatigue" invited presentation for Wild in Vermont: Wildlife Rehabilitators & Associated Professionals.
• "Perspectives on Non-Lethal Violence" panel member with Dr. Peirs Beirne at European Association of Criminology Conference at Toledo Spain, September 4-6, 2002. (Our focus was on the "link" between early abuse of animals and later interhuman violence".)
• "The Power and Promise of Humane Education" with Piers Beirne from University of Southern Maine at the joint conference of the Association for the Advancement of Educational Research and the National Academy for Educational Research. Ponte Vedre Beach, Florida. December 2001
• Sydney Thomas, with Professor Piers Beirne, Chair of Criminology at the University of Southern Maine, presented a paper "Animal Abuse and Interhuman Conflict" at the 2nd Annual International Conference on Crime and Criminal Justice in the Caribbean, in Jamaica on February 15, 2001.
• "Understanding the process of peer rejection and labeling," Community Conversations conference, Old Town High School, March 2000.
• "To Brilliantly Disrupt the Status Quo: Counselors Closing the Achievement Gap," Education trust Conference, Washington, D.C., November 1997.
• "Picked On, Cast Out: Coping with Peer Rejection," Girls on the Edge: Equity and Fairness in Education conference, Presque Isle, Maine, November 1997.
• "The Rhetoric of Developmental Theory in School Improvement Efforts," New England Educational Research Organization conference, Spring 1997.
• "Counselors Can Make School Reform More than a Clichι," American Counseling Association World Conference, Pittsburgh, April 1996.
• "Lonely Losers in a Competitive Culture," Creating Connections throughout Maine-MESCA Conference, Rockland, Maine, February 1996.
• "Creating Conditions for Strengthening Aspirations," Maine Aspirations Foundation Conference, December 1994.

Awards and Honors

• Dean Lucy Award for Outstanding Contributions to Community Service 2003-2004
• Summer Faculty Research Grant, 2000: "The significance of human-animal interaction studies for the development of a human education."
• Certification of Award for invaluable service to the American Counseling Association for work on Human Development Committee position paper, 1994
• Gladstein Humanistic Education Dissertation Prize, University of Rochester, 1993

Professional Memberships

• International Society for Anthrozoology
• Center for Ethology and Conservation Behavior
• International Institute for Humane Education, Vice President, 2000
• Society and Animals Forum
• National Association for Poetry Therapy
• American Counseling Association
• Maine School Counselors Association