“SAINT MARY’S HAS SHOWN ME HOW ENRICHING A COMMUNITY CAN BE WHEN YOU JUMP IN.”
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Jeff Greiner
Faculty Profiles
Jeff Greiner
Assistant Professor
Education
53 Madeleva Hall
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Education
BS, Iowa State University
MS, Peru State College
PhD, North Carolina State University
Areas of Expertise
- Social Studies Education
- Social Justice Education
- Inquiry-based Teaching
- Middle Grades Education
Research Interests
- Social Studies Education
- Social Justice Education
- Inquiry-based teaching
- Critical Pedagogies
Courses Recently Taught
- EDUC 201 Foundations for Teaching in a Multicultural Society
- EDUC 240 General/Special Education Partnerships in Elementary/Middle School
- EDUC 302 Teaching Social Studies in the Elementary and Middle School
Creative and Scholarly Work
- Manfra, M. M., & Greiner, J. A. (2016). "Technology and disciplined inquiry in the world history classroom." Social Education, 80(2), 123-128.
- Greiner, J. A. (2016). Seventh-grade social studies versus social meliorism. The Social Studies, 1–9.
- Greiner, J. A. (2017). Fixing the world: Social justice in 7th grade world history. In Possibilities in Practice: Social Justice Teachings in the Disciplines (pp. 121-132). New York, NY: Peter Lang.
- Medlock Paul, C. and Greiner. J.A. (2017). "Critical Literacy in the Disciplines." Presentation at the International Literacy Conference, Orlando, FL.
- Manfra, M. and Greiner. J.A. (2017). "Disciplined Inquiry in Middle Grades World History." Presentation at the College and University Faculty Association/National Council for the Social Studies conference, San Francisco, 2017.
- Manfra, M. and Greiner. J.A. (2018). "The Emancipatory Potential of Practitioner Research in the Social Studies." Presentation at the College and University Faculty Association/National Council for the Social Studies conference, Chicago, 2018.
Professional Memberships
- National Council for the Social Studies/College and University Faculty Assembly