Douglas McKnight

Associate Professor, Curriculum Studies
Department of Educational Leadership, Policy Studies and Technology Studies
The University of Alabama
Box 870302
Tuscaloosa, AL
35487-0302
(205) 348-1449
dmcknigh@bama.ua.edu
Appointed 2001

Recent Courses Taught:

AEL 620, CIE 670, AEL 664, CSE 493

Areas of Research:

Curriculum theory
Philosophy of Soren Kierkegaard in relation to education
Critical Multiculturalism

Academic Degrees:

Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction , curriculum theory/foundations, Louisiana State University, 1997.
M A, American History, State University of New York-Albany. May 1991.
BA, Journalism (News/Editorial), English minor, Louisiana State University, 1986.

Professional Experiences:

Associate Professor , ELPTS (Curriculum Studies), The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL. Aug. 2007-Present

Associate Editor, JAAACS: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies, Spring, 2007-Present.

Assistant Professor, Curriculum & Instruction, The University of Alabama, 2001-2006.

Assistant Professor of Education, Missouri Western State College. St. Joseph, MO.

Teacher, Tara High School, Baton Rouge, LA. 1997- 1999.

Selected Publications:

McKnight, D. and Chandler, P. Social Studies and the Social Order: Telling Stories of Resistance. Teacher Education Quarterly. (In Press)

McKnight, D. “Critical Pedagogy and despair: A move toward Kierkegaard’s passionate inwardness” in E. Malewski’s (Ed) Curriculum Studies Reader (In Press).

McKnight, D. (2007) “Laura Bragg and the Professionalization of Schooling.” Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies.

Robinson, C. & McKnight, D. (2007). Technologized democracy: A critique on technology’s place in social studies education. THEN: journal about technology, humanities, education and narrative, 1 (4).

McKnight, D. & Robinson, C. (2006) From technologia to technism: A critique on technology’s place in education. THEN: journal about technology, humanities, education and narrative, 1, (3) pp. 28-45.

McKnight, D. (2006) The gift of a curriculum method: Beginning notes on William F. Pinar. Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue, 8, (2), pp. 171-183.

Selected Presentations:

McKnight, D. and Chandler, P. “Race and the social studies: from colorblindness to critical multiculturalism.” Southeastern Philosophy of Education Society (SEPES), Baton Rouge, LA., Feb., 2008.

Chandler, P. and McKnight, D. “Stories of resistance: The tensions and difficulties of teaching from a critical multicultural perspective.” LSU Curriculum Conference, Robert, LA, Feb. 2008.

Petrovic, J. E., Adams, N., Tomlinson, S., Atkinson, B., McKnight, D., Erevelles, N., and Robinson, C. The Rise and Fall of Social Justice in Colleges of Education: A (Greek) Tragedy in Three Acts. Performance presented at the meeting of the American Educational Studies Association AESA), Oct. 2007, Cleveland, OH.

“A critical gloss on Dwayne’s Huebner’s moral position.” American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (AAACS), April, 2007, Chicago, IL.

“The Despair of Critical Pedagogy: Revealing a Disposition Toward ‘Passionate Inwardness’ to Resist the Growing Closure of Technocratic Schooling.” American Educational Studies Association (AESA). Nov., 2006, Spokane, Washington.

“The despair of critical pedagogy: A Kierkegaardian analysis of teachers’ struggle against technocratic schooling.” Paper to be presented at the Annual International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (IAACS) in Tampere, Finland, May, 2006.