John Myers

Department: Instruction and Learning - Assistant Professor
Program: Language, Literacy, and Culture
Program: Social Studies Education

John Myers
School of Education
University of Pittsburgh
5108 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
PHONE: 412-648-7317
EMAIL: myersjp@pitt.edu

Full Time Faculty - Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Curriculum, Teaching and Learning with a specialization in Comparative, International and Development Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT),

Myers, J.P. (in press). Learning to teach the cultures, covenants, and controversies of universal human rights. In E. Heilman (Ed.), Methods for social studies methods: What we do and why we do it. New York: Routledge.
Myers, J.P. (in press). The curriculum of globalization: Considerations for social studies education in the 21st century. In B. Subedi (Ed.), Rethinking Curricular Knowledge on Global Societies. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.

Myers, J.P. and Stocks, J. (in press). Fostering the common good: The portrayal of the social economy in secondary business and economics textbooks. The Journal of Social Studies Research.
Myers, J.P. (2009). Learning in politics: Brazilian teachers’ political engagement as a pedagogical resource. International Journal of Educational Research, 48(1), 30-39.
Myers, J. P. (in press). “To benefit the world by whatever means possible”: Adolescents’ constructions of global citizenship. British Educational Research Journal.