John Myers

Department: Instruction and Learning - Assistant Professor
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. (2008). Challenging patriotism and nationalism through teacher education: The implications of preservice teachers’ understandings of human rights. In R. Helfenbein and J. Diem (Eds.), Unsettling beliefs: Teaching social theory to teachers. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.
Schugurensky, D. and Myers, J.P. (2008). Informal civic learning through engagement in local democracy: The case of the Seniors’ Task Force of Toronto’s Healthy City Project. In Katherine Church and Eric Shragge (Eds.), Informal learning: Making sense of turbulent times. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

Myers, J.P. (2008). Making sense of a globalizing world: Adolescents’ explanatory frameworks for poverty. Theory and Research in Social Education, 36(2), 95-123.
Myers, J.P. and Zaman, H. (in press-2009). Negotiating the global and national: Immigrant and dominant culture adolescents’ vocabularies of citizenship in a transnational world. Teachers College Record, 111(11).
Myers, J.P. (2008). Democratizing school authority: Brazilian teachers’ perceptions of the election of principals. Teaching and Teacher Education, 24(4), 952-966.

Global Civic Identity-building as a Strategy for Civic Education in the 21st Century. Funded by the Spencer Foundation. $39,400
Brazilian Adolescents’ National-Global Identities of Citizenship. Funded by the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh. $3,850