Dr. Colin Green

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Dr. Colin Green

Associate Professor, Curriculum and Pedagogy


School: Graduate School of Education and Human Development

Department: Curriculum and Pedagogy, Cross-Disciplinary

Contact:

Office Phone: (202) 994-0997

Dr. Green’s teaching and research are focused on curriculum, comparative and international education, and the social foundations of education. He has been the recipient and PI of multi-year funded awards from the federal government, foundations, and international organizations. Dr. Green has served in multiple program director roles, as chair of the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, and as the GSEHD Academic Dean. His most recent work has been as PI and Academic Director of an international partnership agreement between GSEHD and education officials in the Caucasus region. A dual MA program between GW and a partner university in the region has been successfully established and developed, and project work is focused on preparing a cadre of education specialists in policy, governance, and curriculum leadership.

Dr. Green has published on a wide range of topics, including teacher education and leadership for underserved and marginalized communities, literacy development of young learners using digital applications and young adolescents in out-of-school contexts, curriculum reform and re-imagination, and the ethics of adversarial educational scholarship and policy work.

Dr. Green holds a BA in Modern Languages and a Master’s from Queen’s University Belfast, and an EdD from the University of Georgia.


Ed.D., University of Georgia

M.Ed., Queens University, Belfast

B.A., Queens University, Belfast

Green, C., Burns, J. & Nolan, J. (2018). New Genealogies and the Courage of Truth: Toward an Ethics of Adversarial Public Educational Scholarship and Policy Activism. Education Policy Analysis and Archives, (26) 151, http://dx.doi.org/10,14507/epaa.26.3397  

Green, C. & Burns, J., (2017). Gender, Process, and Praxis. Re-Politicizing Education in an Era of Neoliberalism, Instrumentalism, and "Big Data", In Deconstructing the Education-Industrial Complex in the Digital Age, Loveless, D. J. (Ed.). Pgs. 24-54.

Green, C., Kortecamp, K., Harper, B., & Jordan, V. (2015). An Evaluation of the Effects of Innovations for Learning’s Digital Applications on Literacy Teaching and Learning. National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies. Washington, DC.

Green, C., Tindle, K., Belknap, B., & Freund, M. (2011). The urban teacher residency program: A recursive process to develop professional dispositions, knowledge, and skills of candidates to teach diverse students. Educational Considerations, 38(2), 28-36.

Green, C. & Kehler, M. (2007). Men, masculinities and ethnography. In M. Flood, J. K. Gardiner, B. Pease, and K. Pringle (Eds.) International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities (Vol. 1). London: Routledge.