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Mark T. Kissling

mtk16@psu.edu

Mark Kissling is an assistant professor of education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Penn State. He teaches and advises graduate students in the Language, Culture & Society (LCS) program. He also teaches pre-service teachers in social studies education in the Childhood and Early Adolescent Education (CEAED; PK-4, 4-8) program. A former social studies teacher in Framingham, Massachusetts, Mark earned his doctorate in Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education from Michigan State University.

Mark’s teaching and research interests examine the intersections of citizenship, patriotism, sustainability, and lived experience in and related to education. These interests span the fields of curriculum studies, social studies education, teacher education, and qualitative inquiry. At the interdisciplinary core of his work is the concept of place, which involves the relationships of people with their dynamic and complex surroundings. His dissertation, Teaching Where (And Who) We Are: Emplacing Curriculum Through Stories of Living, is a narrative inquiry into the lives and teaching of three public school teachers from different regions of the U.S., grade levels, and subject areas. While telling stories of these teachers’ living and teaching curricula, he argues that they are “rooted teachers” who teach their students about the importance of cultivating roots in their communities.

Mark is an active member of Division B (Curriculum Studies) of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), having recently served for two years on its Graduate Student Advisory Board/The Curriculum Collective. He is also a member of several AERA Special Interest Groups: Dewey Studies, Ecological and Environmental Education, Ivan Illich, and Social Studies Research. He is a member of the John Dewey Society for the Study of Education and Culture, for which he is the Membership and Development Officer. Additionally, Mark is a member of the College University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies, the Association for Middle Level Education, and the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture.

Spring 2013 Graduate Course: The Place of Place(s) in Learning and Teaching

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