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Steven Camicia

School of Teacher Education & Leadership
Associate Professor, Social Studies Education
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Office Location: EDUC 390
DialPhone: 801-518-3193
SendEmail: steven.camicia@usu.edu
Educational Background
PhD, Curriculum and Instruction in Social Studies Education, University of Washington, 2007 Dissertation
Teaching the Japanese American Internment: A Case of Social Studies Curriculum
Awards
American Educational Studies Association, 2017 Critics' Choice Book Award, 2017
School of Teacher Education and Leadership Scholar/Researcherof the Year, 2010
American Educational Research Association: Research in Social Studies Education Outstanding Paper Award , 2008
Publications - Abstracts
Publications - Books & Book Chapters
- Camicia, S.P, (2016). Critical democratic education and LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum: Opportunities and constraints. Routledge
- Camicia, S.P, (2018). How might public policy engagement and political activism be situated within social studies teacher education programs? : Social studies in the new educational policy era: Conversations on purposes, perspectives, and practices.. Routledge *
- Camicia, S.P, Devitis, J.L, (2016). Michael W. Apple, Ideology and Curriculum: Popular Education Classics: A Reader. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. *
- Camicia, S.P, Totten, S., (2015). My pedagogical creed: Positionality, recognition, and dialogue in democratic education: Teaching social issues: Our pedagogical creeds. Routledge
- Camicia, S.P, Di Stefano, M., Schwarzer, D., Bridglall, B., (2015). Positionality and Glocal Encounters in Social Studies Teacher Education: Promoting Global Competence & Social Justice in Teacher Education: Successes and challenges within local and international contexts . Lexington Books
- Camicia, S.P, Misco, T., De Groof, J., (2014). Navigating/embodying controversy in classrooms in the United States and Philippines: Using autoethnography to understand the complexities of democracy in different contexts: Cross-cultural case studies of teaching controversial issues: Pathways and challenges to democratic citizenship education. Legal Wolf Publishers (Tilburg), in cooperation with UNESCO/Paris
- Zhu, J., Camicia, S.P, Kuntz, A.M, Petrovic, J.E, (2014). Citizenship education in China under discourses of nationalism, cosmopolitanism, neoliberalism and Confucianism.: Citizenship Education around the World: Local Contexts and Global Possibilities . Routledge *
- Berson, I., Camicia, S.P, (2013). Early childhood social studies: A national study of challenges and promising practices.: J. Passe (Ed.), Research on the status of social studies: Views from the field. . Information Age Press
- Camicia, S.P, Bayon, A., (2012). Curriculum development collaboration between colonizer and colonized: Contradictions and possibilities for democratic education.: Ethics and international curriculum work: The challenges of culture and context. Information Age
- Franklin, S.P, Camicia, S.P, (2011). Critical civic literacy and the building of community for a globalized world. In J. L. Devitis (Ed.): Critical Civic Literacy: A Reader. Peter Lang Publisher
Books
Book Chapters
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Publications - Fact Sheets
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Publications - Curriculum
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Publications - Journal Articles
- Camicia, S.P, (2015). Associate Editor, Theory and Research in Social Education.
- Clark, J., Camicia, S.P, Russell III, W., (2014). Fostering preservice teachers’ sense of historical agency through the use of nonfiction graphic novels. Journal of Social Studies Research, 38:1
- Camicia, S.P, (2012). An ethics of recognition in global and teacher education: Looking through queer and postcolonial Lenses. . International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 4:1, 25-35.
- Camicia, S.P, Zhu, J., (2012). Synthesizing multicultural, global, and civic perspectives in the elementary school curriculum and educational research. . The Qualitative Report, 17, 1-19.
- Zhu, J., Camicia, S.P, (2012). The curriculum as cultures in conflict: Exploring monocultural and multicultural ideologies through the case of bilingual education. . Working Papers in Literacy, Culture and Language Education, 1:1, 88-105.
- Camicia, S.P, Zhu, J., (2011). Citizenship education under discourses of nationalism, globalization, and cosmopolitanism: Illustrations from China and the United States. . Frontiers of Education in China, 6:4, 602-619.
- Camicia, S.P, Franklin, B., (2011). What type of global community and citizenship? Tangled discourses of neoliberalism and critical democracy in curriculum and its reform.: . Globalisation, Societies, and Education, 9:3-4, 311-322.
- Camicia, S.P, Franklin, B., (2010). Curriculum reform in a globalised world: The discourses of cosmopolitanism and community.. London Review of Education, 8:2, 93-104.
- Camicia, S.P, (2010). Deliberation of controversial public school curriculum: Developing process and outcomes that increase legitimacy and social justice. . Journal of Public Deliberation, 6:2, 1-20.
- Camicia, S.P, Dobson, D., (2010). Learning how to respond to current events: Partner journals between U.S. preservice teachers and children. . Teaching and Teacher Education, 26, 576-582.
- Camicia, S.P, Saavedra, C., (2009). A New Childhood Social Studies Curriculum for a New Generation of Citizenship. The International Journal of Children’s Rights, 17, 501-517.
- Parker, W.C, Camicia, S.P, (2009). Cognitive praxis in today’s “international education” movement: Intents and affinities.. Theory and Research in Social Education, 37:1, 42-74.
- Camicia, S.P, (2009). Identifying soft democratic education: Uncovering the range of civic and cultural choices in instructional materials.. The Social Studies , (May/June), 136-142.
- Camicia, S.P, (2009). Teaching the Japanese American internment: A case study of social studies curriculum conflict and change. . Journal of Social Studies Research, 33:1, 113-132.
- Camicia, S.P, (2008). Deciding what is a controversial issue: A case study of social studies curriculum controversy. Theory and Research in Social Education, 35:4, 290-307.
- Camicia, S.P, Read, S.R, (2011). Engaging public Issues through dialogue journals: Preservice teachers and elementary students read and respond. Social Studies Research and Practice, 5:1, 21-34.
Academic Journal
Professional Journal
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Publications - Literary Journal
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Publications - MultiMedia
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Publications - Technical Reports
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Publications - Translations & Transcripts
Publications - Other
- Dobson, D.L, Camicia, S.P, (2010). Learning how to respond to current events: Partner journals between U.S. preservice teachers and children. . Teaching and Teacher Education
- Camicia, S.P, (2007). Deliberating immigration policy: Locating instructional materials within global and multicultural perspectives. Theory and Research in Social Education
- Camicia, S.P, (2007). Prejudice reduction through multicultural education: Connecting multiple literatures.. Social Studies Research and Practice
Other
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Scheduled Teaching
EDUC 6770 - Doctoral course on epistemology and qualitative methods,
EDUC 7300 - Doctoral course on historical, cultural, and social foundations of education,
ELED Seminar: Methods of cooperative learning,
TEAL 6800 - Graduate course on innovations in social studies education in elementary and secondary classrooms,
ELED 4050 - Undergraduate course on methods of instruction for social studies education,
ELED 4050 - Teaching Social Studies and Practicum Level III, Fall 2017
ELED 4050 - Teaching Social Studies and Practicum Level III, Fall 2017
TEAL 6545 - Research for Classroom Teachers, Summer 2017
EDUC 6770 - Qualitative Methods I, Spring 2017
ELED 4050 - Teaching Social Studies and Practicum Level III, Spring 2017
TEAL 7150 - Curriculum Theory, Fall 2016
TEAL 7300 - Historical, Social, and Cultural Foundations of Education, Fall 2016
TEAL 6800 - Improvement of Social Studies Instruction, Summer 2016
EDUC 7780 - Qualitative Methods II, Spring 2016
ELED 4050 - Teaching Social Studies and Practicum Level III, Spring 2016
ELED 4050, Fall 2015
ELED 4050 - Teaching Social Studies and Practicum Level III, Fall 2015
EDUC 670, Spring 2015
ELED 4050, Spring 2015
EDUC 6770 - Qualitative Methods I, Spring 2015
ELED 4050 - Teaching Social Studies and Practicum Level III, Spring 2015
ELED 4050 - Teaching Social Studies and Practicum Level III, Fall 2013
TEAL 6710 - Diversity in Education, Summer 2013
TEAL 6800 - Improvement of Social Studies Instruction, Summer 2013
EDUC 6770 - Qualitative Methods I, Summer 2013
EDUC 7780 - Qualitative Methods II, Spring 2013
PE 1301 - Lap Swimming, Fall 2012
ELED 4050 - Teaching Social Studies and Practicum Level III, Fall 2012
ELED 4050 - Teaching Social Studies and Practicum Level III, Fall 2012
TEAL 6800 - Improvement of Social Studies Instruction, Summer 2012
TEAL 6710 - Diversity in Education, Spring 2012
EDUC 6770 - Qualitative Methods I, Spring 2012
ELED 4050 - Teaching Social Studies and Practicum Level III, Spring 2012
TEAL 7300 - Historical, Social, and Cultural Foundations of Education, Fall 2011
ELED 4050 - Teaching Social Studies and Practicum Level III, Fall 2011
TEAL 6800 - Improvement of Social Studies Instruction, Summer 2011
TEAL 7300 - HIST/SOC/CULTR FOUND, Spring 2011
TEAL 7300 - HIST/SOC/CULTR FOUND, Spring 2011
TEAL 7300 - HIST/SOC/CULTR FOUND, Spring 2011
EDUC 6770 - QUAL METHODS I, Spring 2011
EDUC 6770 - QUAL METHODS I, Spring 2011
TEAL 7300 - Historical, Social, and Cultural Foundations of Education, Fall 2010
TEAL 7810 - Research Seminar, Fall 2010
Graduate Students Mentored
David Joy, School of Teacher Education & Leadership, September 2014
Kade Hendricks, School of Teacher Education & Leadership, August 2014
Ana de la Cruz, School of Teacher Education & Leadership, August 2012
Hayden Call, School of Teacher Education & Leadership, August 2012
Jared Woolstenhulme, School of Teacher Education & Leadership, August 2012
Diana West, School of Teacher Education & Leadership, August 2010
William Strong, School of Teacher Education & Leadership, November 2015 - October 2017
Marialuisa Di Stefano, School of Teacher Education & Leadership, October 2013 - March 2017
HyeKyoung Lee, School of Teacher Education & Leadership, March 2012 - March 2017
Curtis Benjamin, School of Teacher Education & Leadership, January 2009 - August 2014
JuanJuan Zhu, School of Teacher Education & Leadership 2013
Olsen Casey, School of Teacher Education & Leadership 2013
Tim Stout, School of Teacher Education & Leadership 2013
Brooke Robertshaw, Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences 2013
Amy Miner, 2012
Doran Christensen, 2011
Stephen Van Orden, 2010