Edric C. 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

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

Areas of Specialization
Social Studies Education; Drama Education; Teacher Education; Experimental Qualitative Research Methods

Instructor for:
ELEMMID 363 – Teaching Social Studies in the Elementary and Middle Grades
CIGENRL 479/679 – Drama in Education
CIGENRL 723 – Issues, Persepctives and New Directions: A Professional Seminar in Education

Publications:
Johnson, E.C., Kang, H., & Katz, L. (2012). What is a cultural memoir? An action research study of future teachers’ understandings of themselves as cultural persons.  In M. G. Hickey and B. Lanahan (Eds.), Even the janitor is white: Educating for cultural diversity in small colleges and universities. New York: Peter Lang.

Johnson, E.C. (2012). A doctoral student’s perspective creating a cultural memoir while co-teaching.  In M. Johnston-Parsons, Dialogue and difference in a teacher education program: A 16-year sociocultural study of a professional development school. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Press.

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, E. (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.