Professor

Department:
Curriculum and Instruction

Social Studies Education

Office Number: 230A FH

Phone/Fax:
(713) 743-8678 , (713) 743-4990  (Fax)

Email: cswhite@uh.edu

Research Interests:

progressive social education, popular culture and education, international education, critical pedagogy and social reconstruction in education, information technology, teacher education

Recent Publications:

White, C. and Walker, T. (2007). Tooning in: Essays on popular culture and education. New York: Rowman and Littlefield.

White, C. and Openshaw, R. (eds.) (2005). Democracy at the crossroads: International perspectives on critical citizenship education. Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield.

White, C. (2003). True confessions: Social efficacy, popular culture, and the struggle in schools. Kresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
White. C. (2006). Kidstory: Social studies through kid culture and TV cartoons. Social Studies Review.

White, C. and McCormack, S. (2006). The message in the music. The Social Studies.

White, C. (2006). Toon in: Popular culture in elementary schools. The Journal of Social Studies. 6(2).

White, C. (2006). Teacher education and the struggle for voice… Teacher Education and Practice.

Teaching American History Grant (American Voices), US Department of Education – (with Houston ISD, Steve Mintz, and Sara McNeil), $987,000, 2005 – 2009

Teaching American History Grant (Gulf Coast American History Academy), US Department of Education – (Region 4 Education Service Center, Steve Mintz, and Sara McNeil), $1,125,000, 2006 - 2010

Global Classrooms: Houston - Model United Nations, $150,000 per year, 2002 - present

Education:

Doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction / Social Education, University of Texas at Austin, 1992.