Research interests
David Greenwood conducts research on the relationship between environment, culture, and education; environmental, place-based, and sustainability education; and alternative education. He has published widely on the relation between environment, culture, and education in journals such as: Harvard Educational Review, Educational Researcher, American Educational Research Journal, Curriculum Inquiry, Educational Administration Quarterly, Environmental Education Research, Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, Journal of Environmental Education, Educational Studies, Journal of Research in Rural Education, etc. He is working on his second book on “place and education” (forthcoming, Peter Lang). He is University Coordinator with ESD 113 on $1 million Teaching American History Grant, “Our Place in History” (2006-2010).
Teaching/professional interests
In the undergraduate secondary education program, Dr. Greenwood teaches “Cultural and Community Contexts of Education.” In the graduate program cultural studies, he is teaching “Place-Based Education,” “Environment, Culture, and Education,” and “Action Research.” He formerly taught high school English.
Recent accomplishments
- Gruenewald, D. & Smith, G. (Eds.). (2008). Place-based education in the global age: Local diversity. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
- McKenzie, M. & Greenwood, D. (Eds.). (2009). Context, experience, and the socioecological: Inquiries into practice [Special issue]. Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 14.
- Greenwood, D. (in press). Education in a culture of violence: A critical pedagogy of place in wartime. Cultural Studies in Science Education.
- Greenwood, D. (2009). Place, survivance, and White remembrance: A decolonizing challenge to rural education in mobile modernity. Journal of Research in Rural Education, 24(10). Retrieved July 21, 2009 from http://jrre.psu.edu/articles/24-10.pdf
- Awardee of the College of Education Faculty Excellence Award for Research, 2006.
- Visiting Noted Scholar in the Department of Curriculum Studies in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia, 2005.
Educational background
- Ph.D. Educational Thought and Sociocultural Studies, University of New Mexico, 2001
- M.A. Education Foundations, University of New Mexico, 1998
- B.A. English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1988
