UC Davis School of Education

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Jon Wagner

Professor Emeritus
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Email: jcwagner@ucdavis.edu

"Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time." John Dewey, Experience and Education


Expertise
Children's material culture in and out of school; Computer analysis of qualitative data; Practitioner research and documentary studies; Qualitative Methodology; School, curriculum and community change; Social contexts of teaching, learning and educational research; Technology in teaching and learning; Visual studies of education and schooling

Education

  • Ph.D., Sociology - University of Chicago, Chicago - 1971

Highlighted Publications

  • For more about teaching, writing and projects, visit my web site: http://education.ucdavis.edu/~wagner/
     
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Associations, Boards & Committees

  • International Visual Sociology Association, President, 2000-2003.
  • American Sociological Association (ASA) - Image Editor for Contexts (a journal published in conjunction with the University of California Press)
  • Session Chair and Presenter. Annual meetings of the International Visual Sociology Association, Minneapolis, MN. 2001.
  • Invited Presenter. British Economic and Social Research Council, Leeds University, UK. 2001.
  • Panel Presentation. Campus Compact: and the Service-Learning and Development center, University of California, Berkeley. 2001.
  • Session Chair and Presenter. Annual meetings of the International Visual Sociology Association, Portland, ME. 2000.
  • Panel Presentation. Chancellor’s Fall Conference. Grandlibakken, CA. 2000.
  • Invited Presentations. Brisbane School District. 1999-2001.

Courses Taught at UC Davis

  • EDU 120: Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education
  • EDU 122: Children, Learning and Material Culture
  • EDU 201: Qualitative Research in Education
  • EDU 209: Image-based Field Research