Academic Articles
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J. M. Beach
Academic Conference Presentations
J. M. Beach.  “Globalization & Vocational Education: Liberation, Liability, or Both?” Educational
Studies: A Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 43, no. 3 (2008): 270-281.   
J. M. Beach.  "Ideology of the American Dream: Two Competing Philosophies in Education, 1776 -
2006.  Educational Studies: A Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 41,no. 2
(2007): 148-64.
J. M. Beach.  “A Critique of Human Capital Formation in the U.S. and The Economic Returns to Sub-
Baccalaureate Credentials.”   Educational Studies: A Journal of the American Educational
John S. Levin and Josh M. Beach.  "Educational Attainment Skewed in California Community
Colleges?"  Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 33, no. 3 (2009): 256-259.
John S. Levin, Elizabeth M. Cox, Carrie Kisker, Christine Cerven, Yueh-Ching Chang, Joshua Beach,
Jennifer Silverman, and Shaila Mulholland.  “Community College Literature Reviews:  Basic
Skills, Counseling, ESL, Transfer, Vocational Education.”  C4 eJournal, II (2008).
John S. Levin, Josh M. Beach, Carrie B. Kisker.  “Short-Term Credentials and the California
Community College Curriculum, 1993-2006.”  C4 Policy Paper Series.  A Working Paper for the
California Community College Collaborative.  April 28, 2007.
Josh M. Beach.  Ideology, Reality, and Rhetoric: Kenneth Burke's Dramatism. Masters Thesis.
Oregon State U, 2002.
J. M. Beach.  Expression and Identity: The Word Made Flesh.  Masters Thesis.  Oregon State U, 2000.   <Link>
Levin, J. S., Cox, E., Kisker, C. Cerven, C., Haberler, Z., Smith, M., Chang, Y. Naylor, N., Malcom, L.,
Montero-Hernandez, V., Roys, J., Beach, J., Silverman, J., Mulholland, S. (2010) Promising                 
Practices in Community Colleges. California Community College Collaborative (C4).
Community Colleges
Philosophy
U. S. Political Culture & Inequality
Unpublished Manuscripts
J. M. Beach.   "Should U.S. Community Colleges Adopt an Americanization Curriculum?  A Proposal
for a Multicultural Americanization Curriculum for U.S. Community Colleges," paper presented
at 7th Biennial Conference, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, November 4, 2006.
Josh M. Beach, "Institutional Assessment of California Community Colleges: A Historical
Perspective."  Paper presented at Midwest History of Education Society Annual Conference,
Chicago, Illinois,October 10-11, 2008.  
John S. Levin & Josh M. Beach.  “Short-Term Credentials and the California College Curriculum,
1993 – 2006.”  Paper presented at Council for the Study of Community Colleges 50th Annual     
Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 3-5, 2008.
John S. Levin, Elizabeth M. Cox, Josh M. Beach, Chrissy Cerven, Yueh-ching Chang, & Nori Naylor.  
“Examining and Transferring Promising Practices in Community Colleges.”  Paper presented at
Council for the Study of Community Colleges 50th Annual Conference, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, April 3-5, 2008.
J.M. Beach, “Investigating Who Succeeds and What ‘Success’ Means for California Community
 Colleges? A Statewide Study of Student Enrollments, Success Rates, and Award Attainment,
 with Emphasis on Vocational Education Programs,” poster presented at Association for the
Study of Higher Education Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, November 7-10, 2007
J. M. Beach & J. S. Levin.  “What Is The State of Vocational Education and Technical Training
 in America?”  round-table presented at Association for the Study of Higher Education
Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, November 7-10, 2007.
J. M. Beach.  Contested Notions of Americanism and Americanization," paper presented at
International Globalization, Diversity and Education Conference," Washington State University,
Spokane, Washington, March 1-3, 2007.
Josh M. Beach, "The California Postsecondary  Educational Commission and Institutional         
Assessment, 1965 - 2002," Paper presented at Council for the Study of Community Colleges
Conference, Phoenix, AZ, April 2-4 2009.
Josh M. Beach.  “The Community College as Structurally Limited Opportunity.”  Paper presented at  
Sociology Week, California State University at Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, March 17 2010.
Josh M. Beach.  “Race and the History of the American Junior College, with a Case Study of the
California Junior College.”  Paper presented at Council for the Study of Community Colleges,
Seattle, WA, April 16 2010.
Josh M. Beach.  "Why Education Policy Makers Continue to Reinvent the Broken Wheel: Re-
Grounding the Ontological and Epistemological Foundations of Higher Educational Policy on
Historical and Institutional Analysis." Paper presented at Association for the Study of Higher
Education, Indianapolis, IN, November 18-20 2010.
Josh M. Beach, Ellen Walroth, Gaylynne Carter, Christina Frasier.  "Reading, Writing, & Critical
Thinking: Using Qualitative & Quantitative Methods Across the Curriculum."  Paper presented
at Department of the Writing Program, University of Texas at San Antonio, January 7 2011.
Josh M. Beach.  "Children Dying Inside:"An Analysis of South Korea's "Education Fever."  Paper  
presented at American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA, April 8-11 2011.
Josh M. Beach.  "Reason, Rhetoric & Science: A New Approach to Teaching Argument, via a
Critical Analysis of Writing Arguments."  Paper presented at Department of the Writing         
Program, University of Texas at San Antonio, August 19 2011.
Non-Academic Periodicals & Journals
J. M. Beach.  “Going to College?  Welcome to the Circus.”  GOfish 1, (Nov 2008): 40-41.
(NSW, Australia)
J. M. Beach.  "A Warning to the World."  The Korea Times  (June 17 2010)  (Seoul, South Korea)
J. M. Beach.  “Fiction and the Form of Human Experience.”  GOfish 3, (Nov 2010): 18.  
(NSW, Australia)
J. M. Beach.  Encouraging Democracy: An Administrative Method for After-School Programs.
Corvallis: Boys & Girls Club, 2003.  
J. M. Beach.  "Poetry: Spring into Life."  Poetry for the People II.  J. M. Beach and Eric Dickey, eds.
Corvallis: Parke Press, 2002.
J. M. Beach.  "The Way of Poetry: An Ancient Wisdom."  The Dissenting American Poets Present: The
People's Poetry.  J. M. Beach, ed.  Corvallis: Parke Press, 2001.
Articles and Conferences
U. S. History - Progressive Era
U. S. History - Culture Wars of 1990s
Education in South Korea