Areas of expertise:
Critical pedagogy, critical pedagogy of place, sustainability, environmental education, ecopedagogy
Education:
Ed.D., Rutgers University
Recent course taught:
Interdisciplinary Curriculum and Instruction
Social Studies Methods
Ideas and Practice of Sustainability
Student Teaching Seminar
Selected publications:
“Living Well Where We Are: An Educator’s Evolving Critical Pedagogy of Place” in Becoming Critical Pedagogues: Narratives of Resistance and Disruption in Teacher Education. Edited by J. Justice, Routledge Press. In press December, 2017,
Visble Scars, Hidden Costs: Reaping what the Neoliberal Agenda Sows in Our Local Communities in School Against the Neoliberal Rule: Educational Fronts for Social Justice. Edited by B. Porfilio and M. Abendroth, Information Age Publishers. Published June, 25, 2015.
“Curriculum for [dis]Empowerment: Uncovering Hegemony within the New Jersey Social Studies Curriculum Framework” in Six Lenses for Anti-Oppressive Education: Partial Stories, Improbable Conversations, Edited by Kevin K. Kumashiro and Bic Ngo, in the Joe Kincheloe’s Counterpoints: Series in the Postmodern Context of Education, Peter Lang Publishers. Published March, 2007.
College service and professional affiliations:
Former Department Chair
Environment, Sustainability and Society Major Steering Committee
Faculty Athletics Representative
Chair, College-wide Diversity Committee
Reviewer for Educational Studies the publication of the American Educational Studies Association
Distinctions:
2012 Margaret Bunn Award for excellence in teaching