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