Academic History

Ed.D., Educational Leadership, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul
Dissertation topic: The Shaman�s Apprenticeship: a Case Study of the Role of the Silent Curriculum in Professional Education. Nominated for an AERA Outstanding Dissertation award.
M.Ed., Education, University of Minnesota, Duluth
B.S., English, University of Wisconsin, Superior

Expertise

Technology
Leadership Theory and Practice
Qualitative Research

Selected Publications

• Rigoni, D.P., Teaching What Can�t be Taught: the Shaman�s Strategy,  Landham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2002.
• Rigoni, D.P. & Swenson, D.X., Beyond Scripted Blame: A Systems Approach for Understanding School Violence, Systemic Practice and Action Research, 13, 3, 279-296 2000.
• Swenson, D.X. & Rigoni, D.P., Ethical Problem Solving and Systems Theory: The Complexity Connection, Systemic Practice and Action Research, 12, 6, 1999.
• Rigoni, D.P. & LaMagdeleine, Computer Majors� Education as Moral Enterprise: A Durkheimian Analysis, Journal of Moral Education, 27, 4, 489-503, 1998.
• Rigoni, D., Classroom Management as Moral Education: A Durkheimian
• Perspective,  in G. Walford & W.S.F. Pickering, Ed.S., Durkheim and Modern
• Education Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education, Vol. 6, pp.183-200, London: Routledge, 1998.
• Rigoni, D. & Walford, G., Questioning the Quick Fix: Assertive Discipline and the 1997 Education White Paper, Journal of Education Policy, 13, 3, 443-452, 1998.

Selected Presentations

• Rigoni, D.P. & Huber, S., The War of the Worlds Redux? Understanding Licensure Reconstruction within the Context of the Politics of Education, presented at the AERA Conference in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, April 2005.
• Rigoni, D.P., Manipulating Attention through Ritual and Myth: The Shaman�s Secret, presented at the Midwest Qualitative Research Conference in Minneapolis, Minn., June 2004.
• Rigoni, D.P., Standards, Testing, and a Retreat to Modernism, presented at the Midwest Qualitative Research Conference in Minneapolis, Minn., June 2004.
• Rigoni, D.P. & LaMagdeleine, D., Postmodern Professionalism: The Implications of Understanding Religion as Truth-In-Context, presented at the Association for the Sociology of Religion in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, August 1997.
• Rigoni, D.P., Teamwork for the Millennium: Computer Majors� Education as Moral Enterprise, presented at the 25th Annual Journal for Moral Education conference at the University College of St. Martin in Lancaster, England, July 1996.
• Rigoni, D.P., Classroom Management as Moral Education: A Durkheimian Perspective, presented at the Durkheim and Moral Education Conference at Oxford University in Oxford, England, July 1996.
• Rigoni, D.P., Contemporary Shamanic Apprenticeship: The Role of Ritual in Professional Education, presented at annual meeting of The Society for the Scientific Study of Religion in Albuquerque, N.M., November 1994.

Works in Progress

An examination of current national and state education policymaking as a modernist response to postmodernist constructivism.

Professional Memberships

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
American Educational Research Association