Steven Camicia

School of Teacher Education and Leadership

Department Head and Professor


Steven Camicia

Contact Information

Office Location: EDUC 385A
Phone: 435-797-1517
Email: steven.camicia@usu.edu
Additional Information:

Educational Background

PhD, Curriculum and Instruction in Social Studies Education, University of Washington, 2007
Teaching the Japanese American Internment: A Case of Social Studies Curriculum
Med, University of Nevada, 2004
“Aspects of a Democratic Classroom: Class Meetings Based upon the Adlerian and Dreikursian Models of Social Interest.”
BA, Classics, (Philosophy and Ancient Greek), San Fransisco State University, 1986

Awards

Critics' Choice Book Award, 2021

American Educational Studies Association

Francis P. Hunkins Distinguished Article Award , 2020

The American Association for Teaching and Curriculum

Graduate Student Mentor of the Year, 2018

Utah State University, School of Teacher Education and Leadership

Critics' Choice Book Award, 2017

American Educational Studies Association

Researcher of the Year, 2010

Utah State University, School of Teacher Education and Leadership

Outstanding Paper Award , 2008

American Educational Research Association: Research in Social Studies Education


Publications | Books

  • Camicia, S.P, (2021). Education for Democracy: A Renewed Approach to Civic Inquiries for Social Justice. Information Age Publishing, Inc.
  • Camicia, S.P, (2016). Critical democratic education and LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum: Opportunities and constraints. Routledge

    Publications | Book Chapters

  • Camicia, S.P, (2021). Understanding social inequalities through critical democratic education: Fostering diversity and inclusion in the social sciences. Information Age Publishing
  • Camicia, S.P, (2021). Discussion Methods for Teaching Social Issues: Handbook on Teaching Social Issues. Information Age Publishing
  • 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, (2016). Michael W. Apple, Ideology and Curriculum: Popular Education Classics: A Reader. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. *
  • Camicia, S.P, (2015). My pedagogical creed: Positionality, recognition, and dialogue in democratic education: Teaching social issues: Our pedagogical creeds. Routledge
  • Camicia, S.P, Di Stefano, M., (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, (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, (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
  • Saavedra, C., Camicia, S.P, (2010). Transnational childhoods: Bodies that challenge boundaries. In G. S. Cannella & L. Diaz Soto (Eds.): G. S. Cannella & L. Diaz Soto (Eds.), Diversity, multiplicity and childhoods.. Peter Lang Publishing

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Journal Articles

Academic Journal

  • Camicia, S.P, (2020). Understanding Conflict in Education for Democracy. A response to “The value of conflict and disagreement in democratic teacher education”. Democracy and Education, 28:2, 1-5.
  • Camicia, S.P, Zhu, J., (2019). LGBTQ Inclusion and Exclusion in State Social Studies Standards: Implications for Critical Democratic Education. Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue, 21:1 & 2, 7-20.
  • Clark, J., Camicia, S.P, (2017). Examining justice in social studies research. Pedagogy & (Im)Possibilities across Education Research, 1:1, 1-15.
  • Camicia, S.P, Nelson, L., (2023). Education for democracy in the social media century. Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 8:3, 21-36. doi: 10.46303/ ressat.2023.9
  • Camicia, S.P, (2015). Associate Editor, Theory and Research in Social Education.
  • Clark, J., Camicia, S.P, (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.

Professional Journal

  • Camicia, S.P, (2020). Increasing inclusion and recognition in education for democracy. The Annals of Social Studies Education Research for Teachers (ASSERT), 1:1, 16-26.
  • 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.

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Other

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

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

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,
TEAL 7300 - Historical, Social, and Cultural Foundations of Education, Fall 2021
ELED 4050 - Teaching Social Studies in Elementary School, Fall 2021
EDUC 6770 - Qualitative Research Methods, Spring 2021
ELED 4050, 4051 - Teaching Social Studies in Elementary School, Spring 2021
TEAL 7300 - Historical, Social, and Cultural Foundations of Education, Fall 2020
ELED 4050 - Teaching Social Studies in Elementary School, Fall 2020
TEAL 7300 - Historical, Social, and Cultural Foundations of Education, Spring 2020
ELED 4050 - Teaching Social Studies in Elementary School, Spring 2020
TEAL 7150 - Curriculum Theory, Fall 2019
ELED 4050 - Teaching Social Studies in Elementary School, Fall 2019
TEAL 7800 - Advanced Review of Research in Social Studies, Summer 2019
ELED 4056 - Elementary Content Practicum, Spring 2019
EDUC 6770 - Qualitative Research Methods, Spring 2019
ELED 4050 - Teaching Social Studies in Elementary School, Spring 2019
, Fall 2018
TEAL 7150 - Curriculum Theory, Fall 2018
ELED 4050 - Teaching Social Studies and Practicum Level III, Fall 2018
ELED 4050 - Teaching Social Studies and Practicum Level III, Spring 2018
ELED 4050 - Teaching Social Studies and Practicum Level III, Spring 2018
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

Shouqing Si, Teacher Education & Leadership, August 2018
Jared Woolstenhulme, Teacher Education & Leadership, August 2012 - August 2020
Ana de la Cruz, Teacher Education & Leadership, August 2012 - July 2020
David Joy, Teacher Education & Leadership, September 2014 - April 2020
Diana West, Teacher Education & Leadership, August 2010 - October 2019
John Meisner , Teacher Education & Leadership, August 2016 - September 2019
Chaille Kitchen, English, August 2017 - April 2019
Hayden Call, Teacher Education & Leadership, August 2012 - January 2019
William Strong, Teacher Education & Leadership, November 2015 - October 2017
Marialuisa Di Stefano, Teacher Education & Leadership, October 2013 - March 2017
HyeKyoung Lee, Teacher Education & Leadership, March 2012 - March 2017
Curtis Benjamin, Teacher Education & Leadership, January 2009 - August 2014
JuanJuan Zhu, Teacher Education & Leadership 2013
Olsen Casey, Teacher Education & Leadership 2013
Tim Stout, Teacher Education & Leadership 2013
Brooke Robertshaw, Instructional Tech & Learn Sci 2013
Amy Miner, 2012
Doran Christensen, 2011
Stephen Van Orden, 2010