| Ph.D. in
Education, 1997 |
George Mason University |
Fairfax, VA |
| M.A. in Guidance &
Counseling, 1978 |
University of Colorado |
Boulder, CO |
| B.M. in Music Education,
1973 |
Colorado State University |
Ft. Collins, CO |
Dr. Barfield has taught or been a guidance
counselor in Japan, Micronesia, and Germany, as well as in Colorado,
California, Virginia, and Montana. As a consultant, she has worked in the
private sector and conducted program evaluations for the Center for
Applied Linguistics (CAL), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH),
Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA), and
individual school districts in Arizona, California, Virginia, Maryland, Washington D.C.,
Michigan, North Carolina, and Oregon.
Dr. Barfield has been at MSUB since fall 1998
and is currently a Professor for the Department of Educational Theory &
Practice and the Department of Music. She also worked as Principal
Investigator, Project Director, or Project Advisor for the Big Sky
Teacher Projects. She had a 4-month U.S. Fulbright to Chile with
the Chilean Ministry of Education in 2007 and has visited over 35
different countries. In addition to the U.S., she has made presentations
in Vietnam, Chile, Peru, Argentina, and Cambodia. During her
sabbatical in Fall 2009 she taught at the Middelburg Center for
Transatlantic Studies in the Netherlands.
