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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.

Scholarly Writings and Presentations

Scholarly Books and Monographs

Vinson, K. D., Gibson, R., & Ross, E. W. (2001). High-stakes testing: The threat to au­thenticity [John Dewey Project on Progressive Education]. Burlington : University of Ver­mont . Available on-line: http://www.uvm.edu/~dewey/monographs/ProPer3n2.html .

Vinson, K. D., & Ross, E. W. (2003). Image and education: Teaching in the face of the new disciplinarity. New York : Peter Lang.

Vinson, K. D., & Ross E. W. (Eds.). (2004). Defending public schools: Curriculum con­tinuity and change in the 21 st century. New York : Praeger.

Chapters in Scholarly Books and Monographs

Vinson, K. D. (2001). Oppression, anti-oppression, and citizenship education. In E. W. Ross (Ed.), The social studies curriculum: Purposes, problems, and possibilities (rev. ed; pp. 57-84). Al­bany : SUNY Press.

Mathison, S., Ross, E. W., & Vinson, K. D. (2001). Defining the social studies cur­ricu­lum: The influence of and resistance to curriculum standards and testing in social studies. In E. W. Ross (Ed.), The social studies curriculum: Purposes, problems, and possibilities (rev. ed; pp. 87-102). Albany : State University of New York Press.

Ross, E. W., & Vinson, K. D. (2001). In search of the social studies curriculum: Stan­dardization, diversity, and a conflict of appearances. In W. B. Stanley (Ed.), Critical issues in social studies research for the 21 st century (pp. 39-71). Greenwich , CT : Information Age Press.

Vinson, K. D., & Ross, E. W. (2001). Social education and standards-based reform: A critique. In J. L. Kincheloe, S. Steinberg, & D. Weil (Eds.), Schooling and standards in the United States : An encyclopedia (pp. 909-927). New York : ABC/Clio.

Ross, E. W., & Vinson, K. D. (2003). Controlling images: The power of high stakes test­ing. In K. J. Saltman & D. Gabbard (Eds.), Education as enforcement. New York : Rout­ledge.

Vinson, K. D. (2003). History instruction and critical thinking. In J. Kincheloe & D. Weil, The encyclopedia of critical thinking (pp. 379-383). New York : Oryx/Greenwood.

Vinson, K. D., & Ross, E. W. (2004). Defending public schools: Curriculum and the challenge of change—An introduction. In K. D. Vinson & E. W. Ross (Eds.), Defending public schools: Curriculum continuity and change in the 21 st century (pp. xvii-xxvii). New York : Prae­ger.

Oberle, E., & Vinson, K. D. (2004). Not the same old thing: Maria Montessori—A non-traditional approach to public schooling in an age of traditionalism and standardization. In K. D. Vinson & E. W. Ross (Eds.), Defending public schools: Curricula continuity and change in the 21 st century (pp. 93-104). New York : Praeger.

Anhalt, C. O., Ward, R. A., & Vinson, K. D. (2004). The mathematics curriculum: Prose­cution, defense verdict. In K. D. Vinson & E. W. Ross (Eds.), Defending public schools: Cur­riculum continuity and change in the 21 st century (pp. 47-60). New York : Praeger.

Vinson, K. D., Gibson, R., & Ross, E. W. (2004). Pursuing authentic teaching in an age of standardization. In K. Kesson & E. W. Ross (Eds.), Defending public schools: Teaching for a democratic society (pp. 79-96). New York : Praeger.

Vinson, K. D. (2005). Social studies in an age of image: Surveillance-spectacle and the imperatives of “seeing” citizenship education. In A. Segall, E. Heilman, & C. Cherryholmes (Eds.), Social studies—The next generation: Re-searching in the postmodern (pp. 27-45). Peter Lang Publishing.

Ross, E. W., & Vinson, K. D. (2006). Social justice requires a revolution of everyday life. In J. Paraskeva, C. Rossatto, & R. L. Allen (Eds.), Reinventing critical pedagogy: Widening the circle of anti-oppression education [Reinventar a pedagogia crítica] (pp. 137-151). Mangualde , Portugal edições pedago.

Vinson, K. D. (2006). Oppression, anti-oppression, and citizenship education. In E. W. Ross (Ed.), The social studies curriculum: Purposes, problems, and possibilities (3 rd ed.; pp. 51-76). Albany : SUNY Press.

Mathison, S., Ross, E. W., & Vinson, K. D. (2006). Defining the social studies curricu­lum: Influence of and resistance to curriculum standards and testing in social studies. In E. W. Ross (Ed.), The social studies curriculum: Purposes, problems, and possibilities (3 rd ed.; pp. 99-114). Albany : SUNY Press.

Ross, E. W., & Vinson, K. D. (2006). Social justice requires a revolution of everyday life. In J. Paraskeva, C. Rossatto, & R. L. Allen (Eds.), Reinventing critical pedagogy: Widening the circle of anti-oppression education (pp. 143-156). Lanham , UK & New York : Rowan & Little­field.

Vinson, K. D., & Ross, E. W. (2007). Education and the new disciplinarity: Surveil­lance, spectacle, and the case of SBER. In E. W. Ross & R. Gibson (Eds.), Neoliberalism and educa­tional reform. Cresskill , NJ : Hampton Press.

Vinson, K. D. (2007). Teaching. In S. Mathison & E. W. Ross (Eds.), Battle­ground schools: An encyclopedia of conflict and controversy (pp. 639-649). New York : Greenwood Press.

Gibson, R., Queen, G., Ross, E. W., & Vinson, K. D. (2008). The Rouge Forum. In D. Hill (Ed.), Contesting neoliberal education: Public resistance and collective advance (pp. 110-136). New York & London : Routledge.

Vinson, K. D., & Ross, E. W. (in press). The society of the spectacle revisited: Separa­tion, schooling, and the pursuit of dangerous citizenship [awaiting Portuguese title]. In J. Paraskeva, E. W. Ross, & D. W. Hurrahs (Eds.), Marxism and education. Lisbon , Portugal : Pro­fedições.

Vinson, K. D., & Ross, E. W. (in press). Guy Debord and social education: The society of the spectacle revisited. In A. P. DeLeon & E. W. Ross (Eds.), Critical theories, radical peda­gogies, and social education: Towards new perspectives for social studies education.

Refereed Journal Articles

Vinson, K. D. (1995). The struggle for a regime of truth within the social studies [Essay review]. Theory and Research in Social Education, 23, 67-79.

Vinson, K. D. (1998). The “traditions” revisited: Instructional approach and high school social studies teachers. Theory and Research in Social Education, 26, 50-82.

Vinson, K. D. (1998). The problematics of character education and civic vir­tue: A criti­cal response to the NCSS position statement. Social Education, 62, 112-115.

Vinson, K. D. (1999). All children do learn, all children are ready: Slogans and social stud­ies education. The Social Studies, 90, 101-104.

Vinson, K. D. (1999). National curriculum standards and social studies education: Dew­ey, Freire, Foucault, and the construction of a radical critique. Theory and Research in So­cial Education, 27, 295-327.

Vinson, K. D. (1999). “We have always been pragmatists”: Beauty, power, and con­se­quences [Review of the book Reading Pragmatism ]. Theory and Research in Social Educa­tion, 27, 529-540.

Vinson, K. D. (2000). Taking up the dare: Social education and a new new social order [ Review of the book Democratic Social Education: Social Studies for Social Change. ] Theory and Research in Social Education, 28, 454-467.

Vinson, K. D., & Ross, E. W. (2001). What we can know and when we can know it: Edu­cation reform, testing, and the standardization craze (From the editor). Theory and Research in Social Education, 29, 204-211.

Vinson, K. D. (2001). Image, authenticity, and the collective good: The problematics of standards-based reforms. Theory and Research in Social Education, 29, 363-374 [symposium].

Vinson, K. D. (Guest Editor). (2001). Connected citizenship [Introduction to special is­sue]. Theory and Research in Social Education, 29, 397-401.

Vinson, K. D., & Ross, E. W. (2001). Education and the new disciplinarity: Surveillance, spectacle, and the case of SBER. Cultural Logic, 4 (1). Available on-line: http://eserver.org/ clogic/4-1/vinson%26ross.html .

Vinson, K. D., & Ross, E. W. (2001, December 13). Education and the new discipli­nar­ity: Surveil­lance, spectacle, and the case of SBER. Critical Voices. Available on-line: http://www.thecriticalvoice.com/dec2001archive.html .

Queen, G., Ross, E. W., Gibson, R., & Vinson, K. D. (2003). “I participate, you partici­pate, we participate…” Notes on building a K-16 movement for democracy and social justice. Workplace: A Journal of Academic Labor, 5 (2). Available on-line: http://www.louisville.edu/ journal/workplace/issue5p2/rougeforum.html .

Vinson, K. D., & Ross, E. W. [Book Review]. (2003). Examining capitalism and capital­izing on exams: A review of Bertell Ollman's How to take an exam…and remake the world. Educational Studies, 35, 59-65.

Ward, R. A., Anhalt, C. O., & Vinson, K. D. (2004). K-8 teacher candidates' use of mathematical representations and the development of their pedagogical content knowledge as exhibited in their lesson planning. Focus on Learning Problems in Mathematics , pp. 1-11.

Ross, E. W., Kesson, K., Gabbard, D., Mathison, S, & Vinson, K. D. (2005). Saving pub­lic education—Saving democracy. Public Resistance (electronic, peer-reviewed), 1 (1), pp. 1-4).

Anhalt, C. O., Ward, R. A., & Vinson, K. D. (2006). Teacher candidates' growth in de­signing mathematical tasks as exhibited in their lesson planning. The Teacher Educator, 41 (3), pp. 172-186.

Gibson, R., Queen, G., Ross, E. W., & Vinson, K. D. (2007). “I participate, you partici­pate, we participate…They profit”: Notes on revolutionary educational activism to transcend capital: The Rouge Forum. Journal of Critical Educational Policy Studies, 5 (2). Available at: http://www.jceps.com/index.php?pageID=article&articleID=97

Vinson, K. D., & Wilson, M. B. (2008). [Book Review]. Why Foucault? New direc­tions in educational research. Educational Studies, 44, pp. 83-90.

Vinson, K. D., & Wilson, M. B. (2008). [Book Review]. Compass for uncharted lives. Education Review: A Journal of Book Reviews. Available at: http://edrev.asu.edu/reviews/rev699.htm

Welsh, J. F., Ross, E. W., & Vinson, K. D. (2009). To discipline and enforce: Surveil­lance and spectacle in state reform of higher education. New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry.

Wilson, M. B., Meyerson, D., & Vinson, K. D. (in press). [Book Review]. The nature and limits of stan­dards-based reform. Education Review: A Journal of Book Reviews.

Vinson, K. D., Wilson, M. B., & Swenson, C. (2009, April 17). Multiple levels, multiple messages: An essay review of Levstik & Barton's Researching History Education . Education Re­view, 12 (5). Retrieved from http://edrev.asu.edu/essays/v12n5index.html

Op-Eds/Miscellaneous

Ross, E. W., & Vinson, K. D. (2001, February 25). Failing grade for testing [commen­tary]. Albany [NY] Times Union , pp. B1-B2.

Ross, E. W., & Vinson, K. D. (2001, February 25). Giving standardized tests to students privileges the advantaged [letter to the editor]. Las Vegas Review Journal . Available on-line: http://www.lvrj.com/cgi-bin/printable.cgi?/lvrj_home/2001/Feb-25-Sun2001/opinion/15506689. html

Ross, E. W., & Vinson, K. D. (2001, February 26). Interview. In M. Addams-Shaffer (Host & Producer), Parenting 2000. Garden City, NY: WHPC (Radio, 90.3 FM).

Vinson, K. D., & Ross, E. W. (2001, Winter/Spring). What we can know and when we can know it: Education reform, testing, and the standardization craze. Rouge Forum Newspa­per, 5, 1, 25-28. Available on-line: http://www.geocities.com/ elethinker/winter2001/ CanKnow.htm .

Vinson, K. D., & Ross, E. W. (2001, March). What we can know and when we can know it. Z Magazine, 14 (4), 34-38.

Ross, E. W., & Vinson, K. D. (2001, October 29). Testing undermines real education, usurps local control [commentary]. Lexington [KY] Herald-Leader, p. A11.

Vinson, K. D., & Ross, E. W. (2002, January). The schools we want: National Educa­tion Summit urges more tests. Z Magazine, 15 (1), 45-48.

Vinson, K. D., & Ross, E. W. (2009, Spring). Blame the schools. Rouge Forum News, Issue 13. Retrieved from http://www.richgibson.com/rouge_forum/newspaper/spring2009/index.html

Vinson, K. D., & Ross, E. W. (2009, April 6). Blame the schools. Z Space. Retrieved from http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/21104

Scholarly Presentations (selected)

Vinson, K. D. (1998, November). National curriculum standards and social studies edu­cation: Dewey, Freire, Foucault, and the construction of a radical critique. Paper presented at the an­nual meeting of the National Council for the Social Studies (College and Uni­versity Fac­ulty As­sembly), Anaheim , CA.

Vinson, K. D. (1998, November). Oppression, anti-oppression, and citizenship educa­tion: Peda­gogi­cal meaning and the “five faces” of Iris Marion Young. Paper presented at the an­nual meeting of the National Council for the Social Studies (College and University Faculty Assembly), Anaheim , CA.

Vinson, K. D. (1999, April). Teaching as spectacle: Popular film and the representa­tion of pedagogi­cal effectiveness. In Z. Moore (Chair), Media depictions of teachers and teach­ing. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the American Edu­cational Research Association, Montreal , Canada.

Vinson, K. D. (1999, April). Immunization from alienation: Questions, issues, per­spec­tives. In E. W. Ross (Chair), Immunization from alienation: Schools—What is to be known and how are we to know it? Panel presentation conducted at the annual meeting of the Socialist Scholars Association, New York .

Vinson, K. D. (1999, November). Spectacle and disciplinarity: Standardization, Fou­cault, and Debord. In R. Gibson & E. W. Ross (Chairs), Hursh, D., Vinson, K. D., Fleury, S., & Marker, P, Restraints for brain and the body public: Standards for curriculum and instruction, their theory, history and practice as spectacles, surveillance, and modes of social control. Work­shop presented at the annual meeting of the National Council for the Social Studies (College and University Faculty Assembly), Orlando , FL.

Vinson, K. D. (1999, November). Social education and the collective good: A case against standardization. In E. Wayne Ross (Chair), Gibson, R., Vinson, K. D., Evans, R., Hursh, D., & Fleury, S. C., Standards-based reforms in social studies education: Defining or under­min­ing the common good? Panel presentation at the annual meeting of the National Council for the Social Studies (National Social Studies Supervisors Associations), Orlando , FL.

Ross, E. W., Gibson, R., Vinson, K. D., Evans, R., Hursh, D., & Fleury, S. C. (1999, November). The Rouge Forum: Teaching for democracy, equality, and social justice. Work­shop presentation at the annual meeting of the National Council for the Social Studies, Orlando , FL.

Vinson, K. D. (Chair), Ross, E. W., Coles, G. S., Fleury, S., Hursh, D., & Chizik, A. (2000, April). The spectacularization of schooling: Standardization, image, and power. Panel presentation at the annual meeting of the Socialist Scholars Conference, New York .

Vinson, K. D. (Chair), Ross, E. W., Hursh, D., & Fleury, S. C. (2000, June). Standardization, image, and power: Implications for contemporary school reform. Panel presentation at the International Education Summit for a Democratic Society/Rouge Forum, Detroit .

Gibson, R. (Chair), Ross, E. W., Vinson, K. D., Fleury, S., & Hursh, D. (2000, September). Education and the boundaries of capital. Workshop presentation at the Marxism 2000 Con­ference, Amherst , MA .

Vinson, K. D. (Chair), Gibson, R., & Ross, E. W. (2000, November). High-stakes testing and social education: Toward an authentic critique. Panel presentation at the annual meet­ing of the National Council for the Social Studies, San Antonio , TX .

Vinson, K. D. (Chair), Members of the College and University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies Committee on Diversity and Social Justice. (2000, November). Diversity and social justice in honoring the past and building the future. Panel pres­en­tation at the annual meeting of the National Council for the Social Studies, San Antonio , TX .

Vinson, K. D. (Participant), Members of the College and University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies Committee on Diversity and Social Justice. (2000, November). A town meeting on social studies and social justice: Can/should the college and university faculty assembly play a role in social change? Panel presentation at the annual meet­ing of the National Council for the Social Studies, San Antonio , TX .

Vinson, K. D. (2001, April). Pursuing image: Making sense of popular pedagogical rep­resentations. Poster session presentation at the annual meeting of the American Educational Re­search Association (Media, Culture, & Curriculum SIG), Seattle, WA.

Vinson, K. D., & Ross, E. W. (2001, April). The “new” disciplinarity: Surveillance, spectacle, and the case of SBER. Roundtable presentation at the annual meeting of the American Edu­cational Research Association (Foucault & Education SIG), Seattle , WA .

Vinson, K. D. (Chair). (2001, April). The power of words: Studies of political commu­ni­cation. Paper presentation at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Asso­cia­tion (Division L1), Seattle , WA .

Gibson, R. (Chair), Vinson, K. D., Goslee, A., Schmidt, G. (2001, July). High-stakes testing and social justice: How do we keep our ideals and still teach? Interactive workshop for the Whole Language Umbrella/Whole Schooling Consortium/Rouge Forum Conference, Chi­cago, IL .

Gibson, R. (Chair), Vinson, K. D., VanDerwerker, M., Marker, P., Queen, G., & Ross, E. W. (Discuss­ant). (2001, November). Against High-Stakes Tests: The Rouge Forum—Education, Organiz­ing, Justice. Workshop presented for the annual meeting of the National Council for the Social Stud­ies, Washington , DC .

Epstein, T. (Chair & Discussant), Vinson, K. D., Segall, A., Trofanenko, B., & Dinkle­man, T. (2001, November). Reforming and reframing the social studies: An immodest pro­posal. Symposium presented at the National Council for the Social Studies (College and Univer­sity Faculty Assembly), Washington , DC.

Vinson, K. D. (2002, April). The end of the panopticon? Baudrillard & Debord—A critique of Foucault's disciplinarity. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Edu­cational Research Association (Foucault & Education SIG), New Orleans , LA.

Vinson, K. D., Cary, L. J., & Ross, E. W. (2002, April). Troubling images: Race, class, and gender in citizenship education. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Edu­cational Research Association (Division G, Section 4), New Orleans , LA.

Ross, E. W. (Chair), Mathison, S., Vinson, K. D., Peterson, M., Gibson, R., Nelson, J., Pang, V. O., Merryfield, M. M., Subedi, B., & Marker, P. (Discussant). (2002, April). The so­cial studies curriculum: Purposes, problems, and possibilities. Interactive symposium/book discus­sion presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Re­search in Social Studies Education SIG), New Orleans , LA.

Carter, K., Doyle, W., Johnson, B., Romano, M., Vinson, K. D., & Ward, R. (2002, April). Issues in Curriculum, instruction, and teacher education. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Division K: Section 4c, Pro­fessional Development and the Work of Teaching), New Orleans , LA.

Vinson, K. D., & Ross, E. W. (2002, November). Controlling images: Teaching in the face of the new disciplinarity. In E. W. Ross (Chair), An unbroken chain—Inequality, standards, high-stakes testing, segregation, perpetual war, tyranny: So what now? Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Studies Association, Pittsburgh , PA.

Ross, E. W. (Chair & Presenter), Gibson, R., Vinson, K., Pruyn, M., Hursh, D., & Mathi­son, S. (Discussant). (2002, November). Rethinking Marx and social education: Critical demo­cratic education and social transformation. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the National Council for the Social Studies/College and University Faculty Assembly, Phoenix , AZ.

Ward, R., Anhalt, C., & Vinson, K. D. (2003, April). Mathematical representations and pedagogical content knowledge: An investigation of prospective teachers' development. Paper discussion presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Research in Mathematics Education SIG), Chicago, IL.

Vinson, K. D., & Ross, E. W. (2003a, April). Image and education: Teaching in the face of the new disciplinarity. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the American Educa­tional Research Association (Division G, Section 4: Social Contexts of Educational Policy, Poli­tics and Praxis), Chicago , IL .

Vinson, K. D., & Ross, E. W. (2003b, April). Education and the new disciplinarity: Sur­veillance, spectacle, and the case of standards-based educational reform. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Division L, Section 5: Challengers and Often-Missed Politics), Chicago , IL .

Vinson, K. D., & Ross, E. W. (2003, June). Controlling images: The power of high stakes testing. In K. Saltman (Chair), Education as enforcement. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the Rouge Form, Louisville , KY.

Gibson, R. (Chair), Ross, E. W., Boyer, B., Gosslee, A., Queen, K., Queen, G., & Vinson, K. D. (2003, November). Overcoming the big tests: The growing movement to keep our ideals and still teach. Panel presentation/workshop at the annual meeting of the National Council for the Social Studies, Chicago , IL .

Anhalt, C. O., Ward, R. A., & Vinson, K. D. (2004, April). Prospective teachers' design of planned academic tasks in mathematics as exhibited in their lesson planning. Roundtable presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego.

Vinson, K. D. (2004, April). Social studies in an age of image: Surveillance-spectacle and the imperatives of “seeing” citizenship education. In A. Segall (chair), Social studies: The next generation: Re-searching in the postmodern. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Research in Social Studies Education SIG), San Diego .

Fleury, S., Gibson, R., Marker, P., Ross, E. W., Seepe, S., Singer, A., & Vinson, K. D. (2006, November). Is it possible or desirable to teach for democracy today? Roundtable pre­sented at the annual meeting of the National Council for the Social Studies, International Assem­bly, Washington , DC .

Vinson, K. D., in Pang, V. O. (Chair), & Nelson, J. L. (Discussant). (2007, November). Social studies has been left behind: A threat to democratic education. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the National Council for the Social Studies/College and University Faculty Assembly, San Diego , CA .

Ross, E. W. (Chair), Kumar, A. (Discussant), Hursh, D., Vinson, K. D., Hill, D., Gibson, R., & Welsh, J. F. (2008, June). Neoliberalism and educational reform in North America and the United Kingdom . Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Vancouver , BC ( Canada ).

Vinson, K. D. (Chair & Presenter), Swenson, C., Gibson, R., Fleury, S. J., & Marker, P. (2008, November). Paulo Freire and contemporary social studies scholarship: A critical (re)appraisal. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the National Council for the Social Studies/College and University Faculty Assembly, Houston , TX .

Vinson, K. D., & Ross, E. W. (2009, November). Guy Debord and radical social education: The society of the spectacle revisited. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Pittsburgh , PA.