Steven Camicia
School of Teacher Education and Leadership
Department Head and Professor
Contact Information
Office Location: EDUC 385APhone: 435-797-1517
Email: steven.camicia@usu.edu
Additional Information:
Educational Background
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
- 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
Publications | Book Chapters
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.