I am a social studies teacher educator committed to understanding the role of democratic theory for promoting the enactment of deep democracy in schools and communities. In particular, my work seeks to understand how educators teach, and students learn civic engagement, active citizenship, and social justice in and related to knowledge, dispositions, and practices of social studies education and its disciplines. In my teaching and research I focus on a citizenship and justice orientation in the fields of social studies education, teacher education, teacher research, and democratic theory in education. Values and perspectives guiding my work are social justice (critical), community engagement across differences (communal), and reflective decision-making for personal growth (individual).
