Edric Johnson

Office Location: WH-3047
Office Phone: (262) 472-5798
Email: johnsoec@uww.edu
Mailing Address:
UW-Whitewater
Department of Curriculum & Instruction
800 W Main
Whitewater WI 53190

Instructor for:
ELEMMID 363– Teaching Social Studies in the Elementary and Middle Grades
CIGENRL 723– Issues, Perspective, and Directions: A Graduate Seminar
CIGENRL 725– Curriculum Development and Integration

Educational Background:
Ph.D. Ohio State University-Columbus, 2006

Peer Reviewed Publications:
Barnes, M.K., Johnson, E.C. and Neff, L. (2010). Learning through Process Drama in the First Grade. Social Studies and the Young Learner, 22(4). 19-24.

Johnson, E.C. (2010). Oral Histories in Education. In E. Heilman (Ed.), Social Studies and Diversity Teacher Education: What We Do and Why. New York. Routledge.

Johnson, E.C. (2009). When a Student Does Not Want to Be in School: A Reading of Paulo Freire through Family Alcoholism Discourse. Qualitative Inquiry, 15(7) 1287-1289.

Hartwick, J.M.M. and Johnson, E.C. (2008). Transformative Multiculturalism and the Supervision of Social Studies Student Teachers: A Critical Look at One University Supervisor's Approach. Social Studies Research and Practice, 3(3). 26-38.

Johnson, E.C. (2007). Seeking Freire's Theory on Critical Consciousness: A Look at One Preservice Teacher's Field Experience. Curriculum and Teaching, 22(2). 89-97.

Johnson, E.C. (2007). Critical Literacy and the Social Studies Methods Course: How Preservice Social Studies Teachers Learn and Teach for Critical Literacy. Social Studies Research and Practice, 2(2), 145-168.

Johnson, E.C. (2007). Involving Preservice Teachers in Collecting and Performing Oral Stories. The Social Studies, 98(5), 197-199.

Works in Progress and/or Items Not Yet Accepted:
Johnson, E.C. (in preparation). The Cultural Awareness Assignment: An Action Research Study of Future Social Studies Teacher’s Understandings of Themselves as Culturally Constructed Beings. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press

Johnson, E.C. (in preparation). Learning and Teaching for Historical Thinking: Can We Adequately Address Primary Source Teaching in a Single Elementary Social Studies Methods Course?

Johnston-Parsons M., Johnson, E.C., Knapp, K., Maloney, L., Pape, S., Scheckelhoff, C., & M. Thomas (in preparation). Teaching the University Methods Courses: Building a Collaborative Culture.