Dana Morrison
- Associate Professor
B.A., West Chester University of Pennsylvania
M.A., Villanova University
Ph.D., University of Delaware - Email Dana Morrison
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Dana Morrison holds a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Delaware, specializing in Sociocultural and Community-Based Approaches. Her scholarship has focused on teacher activism, critical teacher education theory and practice, and the financialization of public higher education. She is faculty co-advisor to the WCU Chapter of the Student Pennsylvania Education Association (SPSEA) and the current Secretary of ASPCUF-WCU. Dr. Morrison also co-chairs the Teachers’ Work/ Teachers Union SIG for the American Education Research Association (AERA).
Dr. Morrison is both an alumna and former adjunct faculty member of WCU.
AREAS OF INSTRUCTION
Dr. Morrison teaches courses in the Social Foundations of Education both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Principle specializations include: Philosophy and History of education, educational policy (K-Higher Education), and qualitative research methods in education.
PUBLICATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Morrison, D., The Coalition Against Campus Debt, (2024). Lend and Rule. Common Notions.
Morrison, D. (2024). Why Do Teachers Engage in Justice-Oriented Activism?: Reflections from Philadelphia’s Teacher-Activists. In Kramer, B (Ed.) Activists, Advocates, and Agitators 21st Century Justice-Oriented Teacher Activist Organizations, Myers Education Press. DOI 9781975505639
Morrison, D. (2021). The Fight for the Public: Henry Giroux, the Neoliberal Project, and the Limits of Critical Pedagogy.
Kofke, M., & Morrison, D. (2021). Disability Studies in Education and Justice-Oriented Teacher Preparation: Understanding the Barriers and Possibilities of Integrating Critical Visions of Disability. Studying Teacher Education, 1-19.
Shirmer, E., Wozniak, J.T., Morrison, D., Levy, R., Gonsalves, J. (2021). Making the Invisible Visible: Organizing against the Instructionally Harmful, Anti-Democratic Effects of Institutional Debt. Journal of Academic Freedom.
Morrison, D. (2021) What Came Before: Remembering Movements with Philadelphia’s Teacher Organizers. Critical Education.