Dr. Perry Marker, Professor
Department of Curriculum Studies and Secondary Education

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707.664.4203 tel
707.664.2483 fax
perry.marker@sonoma.edu

 

Professor and Chair, Department of Curriculum Studies and Secondary Education

Professional Memberships:

National Council for the Social Studies
American Educational Research Association
American Educational Studies Association

Education and Degrees:

B.S., Political Science and Secondary Social StudiesEducation,
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, 1973

M.A., Curriculum Studies, Bowling Green State University, Bowling
Green, Ohio, 1978.

Ph.D.,Social Studies Education, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1986.

Publications, Grants, Research:

Marker, Perry M. (2008) “Learning From Our Future” chapter in Battleground Schools: An Encyclopedia of Conflict and Controversy, Greenwood/Praeger Press.

Ross, E. Wayne, and Marker, Perry M.( in press)”Dare We Teach For Democracy?” an edited, themed issue on Social Studies Teacher Education in Teacher Education Quarterly.

Kornfeld, John, Grady, Karen, , Marker, Perry M., and Ruddell, Martha Rapp, (2007) “Caught in the Current: A Self-Study of State-Mandated Compliance in a Teacher Education Program” Teachers College Record, volume 109, number 8, August, pp. 1902-1930.

Marker, Perry M. (2006) “The Future Is Now: Social Studies in the World of 2056,” chapter in Ross, E.W, editor, The Social Studies Curriculum , State University of New York Press.

Marker, Perry M., and Martha Rapp Ruddell, (2006) Literacy and Social
Justice: The Place Where the Sidewalk Ends,” The California Reader, Journal of the California Reading Association. Summer

Ross, E.Wayne. and Marker, Perry M. (2005) “(If Social Studies is Wrong) I Don’t Want to be Right” Theory and Research in Social Education, The Journal of the College and University Faculty Assembly, National Council for the Social Studies, Washington, D.C.

Marker Perry M. (2004) “Another Brick in the Wall: The California Teacher Performance Assessment” chapter in Ross, E.W.. and Kesson K, (editors) in Defending Schools: Curriculum, volume 3 of the Defending Schools series, Praeger Publishers.

Marker Perry M. (2004) “ Old Wine in a New Bottle: a 20th century social studies curriculum for the 21 century” chapter in Ross, E.W.. and Vinson, K, (editors) in Defending Schools: Curriculum , volume 2 of the Defending Schools series, Praeger Publishers.

Marker Perry, M. (2003) “ High-Stakes Testing in Teacher Education; The California Teacher Performance Assessment” Workplace, online journal, July. http://www.louisville.edu/journal/workplace/issue5p2/marker.html

Marker, Perry M. (2003) “The Myth of Neutrality,” The Social Studies Professional, a newsletter of the National Council for the Social Studies,” May/June.