Phillip VanFossen
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| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Ackerman Professor of Social Studies Education |
| Location | W. Lafayette, IN, United States |
| Introduction | I currently serve as the James F. Ackerman Professor of Social Studies Education and Director of the Ackerman Center for Democratic Citizenship in the College of Education at Purdue University where I teach courses in elementary and secondary social studies education. I am also the Associate Director of the Purdue University Center for Economic Education (and I hold a courtesy appointment in the Krannert School of Management at Purdue) where I teach introductory economics courses for the Economics department. I am the program author for the high school economics text Economics Alive! The Power to Choose (Teachers Curriculum Institute, 2009). My research interests include how social studies teachers use the Internet and digital media in their teaching. In 2008, I co-edited "The Electronic Republic?: The Impact of Technology on Citizenship Education" (Purdue University Press). Recently, this research interest has led me to explore the potential of virtual worlds (e.g., MMORPGs such as World of Warcraft) for social studies and citizenship education. |
| Interests | Economic education, digital technology and social studies education, MMORPGs and education, |