University of the West Indies- Cave Hill (Barbados)

Faculty Member, School of Education-Faculty of Humanities and Education

Senior Lecturer

School of Education/Faculty of Humanities and Education

About

Biography

Dr. Kevin D. Vinson received his PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Maryland in 1996. In addition he holds a BA in History (University of Maryland Baltimore County) and an MA in Curriculum and Instruction (Loyola University in Maryland ). Dr. Vinson is the co-author of the book Image and Education: Teaching in the Face of the New Disciplinarity and the co-editor of Defending Public Schools: Curriculum (both with E. Wayne Ross). His scholarship has appeared in Theory and Research in Social Education, Educational Studies, and The Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies (among others) and has been presented at the annual conferences of organizations such as the American Educational Research Association, the American Educational Studies Association, and the National Council for the Social Studies. Dr. Vinson is married to Melissa Wilson, also as Lecturer, and has a daughter, Olivia, and a stepdaughter, Miriam.

Research Interests

Social Studies Education
Philosophy of Education
Curriculum Theory
Critical Pedagogy

Specifically, Dr. Vinson is pursues a critical theoretical understanding of the relationships between schools and the broader society, particularly in terms of social justice, democracy, and the contextualizing characteristics of surveillance-spectacle, representation, socially mediated social relationships, and power. He is currently working on a new book tentatively entitled iCitizenship: The Foundations of a Contemporary Critical Social Pedagogy.

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