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GRADUATION 08 | Students
College of Education graduates and their families gathered on June 14, 2008 for a festive Commencement ceremony...
STUDENTS | Undergraduate Minor
The new College of Education minor in Education, Learning, and Society provides a strong background in how human beings learn ...
Academic Areas & Divisions
Curriculum & Instruction
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Walter C. ParkerProfessor in Curriculum & Instruction 122 Miller, Box 353600 |
I am a professor of education and an adjunct professor of political science at the University of Washington. My specializations are the civic development of children and adolescents, and social studies curriculum and instruction K-12. I teach social studies curriculum and instruction courses in the Teacher Education Program and graduate seminars on curriculum controversies, global education, civic education, and democratic education. My books include "Renewing the Social Studies Curriculum" (1991), "Educating the Democratic Mind" (1996), "Social Studies in Elementary Education" (2005), "Education for Democracy: Curricula, Contexts, Assessments" (2002), and "Teaching Democracy: Unity and Diversity in Public Life"(2003). Forthcoming articles include “Imagining a Cosmopolitan Curriculum,” “Public Discourses in Classrooms,” and with Katharyne Mitchell, “I Pledge Allegiance to….”
I am the research department editor for the journal "Social Education." Here I invite a variety of experts to summarize the research on a burning question, such as “Can tolerance be taught?” and “Why do so few history teachers engage their students in historical inquiry?” and “How do students from different social positions (e.g., race, gender) make sense of the US history course?”
My community engagement includes working with social studies curriculum coordinators in Washington school districts. Also, I direct an annual summer institute on classroom discussion facilitation—both Seminar and Deliberation—called "Can We Talk?"
"Can We Talk?" SUMMER INSTITUTE ON DISCUSSION FACILITATION:
Can We Talk will return in the summer of 2008. Registration details can be found at http://www.outreach.washington.edu/k12/talk/.
Education
Ph.D., Education, University of Washington
M.A. Education, University of Colorado, Denver
B.A. Political Science, University of Colorado, Boulder
Publications
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Banks, J. A., Parker, W. C. and others. (2005). Democracy and diversity: Principles and concepts for educating citizens in a global age Seattle: Center for Multicultural Education, University of Washington.
Parker, W. C. (2003). Teaching Democracy: Unity and Diversity in Public Life. New York: Teachers College Press.
Parker, W. C. (Ed.). (2002). Education for Democracy: Contexts, Curricula, Assessments. Greenwich, CT: Information Age.
Parker, W. C. (2009). Social Studies in Elementary Education. (13th ed.). Boston: Pearson/Allyn & Bacon, 2009.
Parker, W. C. (Ed.). (1996). Educating the Democratic Mind. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Parker, W. C. (1991). Renewing the Social Studies Curriculum. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
Recent Chapters, Articles, and Op-Eds:
Mitchell, K. and Parker, W. C. (2008). I Pledge Allegiance To....Flexible Citizenship and Shifting Scales of Belonging. Teachers College Record 110:4.
Parker, W.C. (2006). Public Discourses in Schools: Purposes, Problems, Possibilities. Educational Researcher 35:8.
Parker, W.C. (2006, July 4). To What Are We Pledging Our Allegiance? Seattle Times.
Parker, W. C. (2006, March). Schools Are Hotbeds of Democracy. Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Parker, W. C. (2005). Teaching Against Idiocy. Phi Delta Kappan.
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