Dr. Jamie C. Atkinson

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Education

• PhD, Educational Theory and Practice, Critical Studies emphasis, 2018, University of Georgia
• Certificates in Education Law and Policy and Qualitative Research, University of Georgia
• AAS, Human Resource Management, 2017, Community College of the Air Force
• AAS, Emergency Management, 2012, Community College of the Air Force
• MEd, Science Education, Ecojustice emphasis, 2008, University of Georgia
• Certificates in Gifted Education and English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), University of Georgia
• BBA, Finance, 1999, Georgia Southern University

Teaching

• EDC 249 Schooling in America
• EDC 350 School and Society
• EDC 786 Research Seminar in Education
• SFR 750 Philosophies of Education
• SFR 781 Applied Research in Education

Professional experience

• Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations, College of Education, Missouri State University, 2018-Present
• Program Coordinator, Master of Arts in Teaching, College of Education, Missouri State University, 2018-2020
• Instructor, Scotland Study Abroad Program, School of Public and International Affairs (COE Affiliated Program), University of Georgia, Summer of 2018 and 2019
• Instructor of Record, Educational Foundations, Department of Educational Theory and Practice, College of Education, University of Georgia, 2017-2018
• Certified Teacher, Business Education and Broad Field Science, State of Georgia, 2005-2015

Professional affiliations

• American Educational Research Association (AERA)
• American Educational Studies Association (AESA)
• Association of Teacher Educators (ATE)
• Southern History of Educational Society (SHOES)
• Society of Historians and Philosophers of Education (SOPHE)
• Missouri Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (MACTE)

Selected publications

• Atkinson, J. C. (2020). Ideology and the Education Debate: Examining the Powell Memorandum’s Influence on Education Policy and Neoliberal Reform Models. In, K. deMarrais, B. Herron, & J. Copple (Eds.), Conservative Philanthropies: Ideologies and Actions Shaping U.S. Educational Policy and Practice (pp. 17-38). Myers Education Press.
• Atkinson, J. C. and Dotts, B. W. (2019). Impacting Education through Privatized Graduate Schools: Strategic Fields, Charter Networks, and the Relay Graduate School of Education. In T. J. Brewer & C. Lubienski (Eds.), Becoming a teacher in an age of reform: Global lessons for teacher preparation and the teaching profession (pp. 91-111). New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
• deMarrais, K., Brewer, T. J., Herron, B., Atkinson, J. C. & Lewis, J. B. (2019). Philanthropy, Hidden Strategy, and Collective Resistance: A Primer for Concerned Educators. Myers Education Press.
• Atkinson, J. C. (2017). Countering the neos: Dewey and the democratic ethos in teacher education. Democracy and Education, 25(2), Article 2.
• Atkinson, J. C. (2016, March 23). Review of Capitalism’s Educational Catastrophe: And the Advancing Endgame Revolt! by R. J. Rosa & J. J. Rosa. Education Review, 23.

Research and professional interests

• Sociohistorical issues in education
• Educational law and state-level educational policy
• Politics of education
• Social psychology and social epistemology of teachers
• Social justice and critical issues in education
• Social foundations of education as a field of study

Awards and honors

• Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award for Philanthropy, Hidden Strategy, and Collective Resistance: A Primer for Concerned Educators, 2020
• American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Book Award for Philanthropy, Hidden Strategy, and Collective Resistance: A Primer for Concerned Educators, 2019
• New Faculty Grant, College of Education, Missouri State University; “Russell Ward Ballard and the Post War Years of the Hull House”, 2019