Scott Metzger

Scott Metzger

sam59@psu.edu
(B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) Associate Professor, Language, Culture, & Society, and Social Studies Education

Dr. Scott Metzger taught high school social studies in Michigan, specializing in world history. During these years he designed new Military History and History through Popular Culture courses, was an extracurricular quiz bowl and the theater director, served as social studies department chair, and was on the editorial board of the Michigan Council for the Social Studies teacher's journal. In 2006 he completed his doctoral research on educational uses of history feature films at Michigan State University. His research interests today include history teaching and learning, history-oriented media and uses of the past in popular culture, science fiction as “public pedagogy” social education, social studies curriculum and policies, as well as the history, sociology, and politics of education. Dr. Metzger's writing has appeared in the National Council for the Social Studies publications Social Education and Theory and Research in Social Education, the American Educational Research Association’s Review of Educational Research, Military History Quarterly (MHQ), The Social Studies, The History Teacher, Journal of Social Studies Research, and Educational Policy. He also is co-author of Teaching History with Film: Strategies for Secondary Social Studies Classrooms (Routledge, 2010). Scott Metzger is a member of the American Educational Research Association (for which he served as Program Chair for the Teaching History group) as well as the College & University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies.

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