Dr. Jamie C. Atkinson

Biography

Dr. Jamie C. Atkinson is an Associate Professor of Sociocultural Foundations of Education at Missouri State University’s College of Education. He has taught undergraduate and graduate sociocultural foundations courses at both the University of Georgia and Missouri State University and in Glasgow, Scotland for the Scotland Study Abroad program of the University of Georgia. Dr. Atkinson taught middle school and high school for ten years prior to his work in higher education. His research lies at the intersection of the socio-politics of education, history of education, social psychology, and social epistemology. Dr. Atkinson’s most recent work examines student teacher’s social epistemologies and how their epistemological heritages may inform their critical understandings regarding pedagogy. In addition, he examines Christian Nationalism’s impact on education and the rise of authoritarian tendencies in the U.S. in relation to critical anti-fascist teaching as a form of resistance.

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Education

• PhD, Educational Theory and Practice, Critical Studies emphasis, 2018, University of Georgia
• Certificates in Education Law and Policy and Qualitative Research, University of Georgia
• AAS, Human Resource Management, 2017, Community College of the Air Force
• AAS, Emergency Management, 2012, Community College of the Air Force
• MEd, Science Education, Ecojustice emphasis, 2008, University of Georgia
• Certificates in Gifted Education and English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), University of Georgia
• BBA, Finance, 1999, Georgia Southern University

Teaching

• EDC 249 Schooling in America
• EDC 350 School and Society
• GEP 101 First Year Foundations
• SFR 750 Philosophies of Education
• SFR 781 Applied Research in Education

Professional experience

• Associate Professor of Educational Foundations, College of Education, Missouri State University, 2024-Present
• Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations, College of Education, Missouri State University, 2018-2024
• Program Coordinator, Master of Arts in Teaching, College of Education, Missouri State University, 2018-2020
• Instructor, Scotland Study Abroad Program, School of Public and International Affairs (COE Affiliated Program), University of Georgia, Summer of 2018 and 2019
• Instructor of Record, Educational Foundations, Department of Educational Theory and Practice, College of Education, University of Georgia, 2017-2018
• Certified Teacher, Business Education and Broad Field Science, State of Georgia, 2005-2015

Professional affiliations

• American Educational Research Association (AERA)
• American Educational Studies Association (AESA)
• Association of Teacher Educators (ATE)
• Southern History of Educational Society (SHOES)
• Society of Historians and Philosophers of Education (SOPHE)
• Missouri Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (MACTE)

Selected publications

• Atkinson, J. C. (2024). Disrupting vice epistemologies and problematic socializations: Critical dialogical practice in teacher education. Journal of Academic Perspectives, 2024(5).
• Atkinson, J. C. (2024). Christian Nationalist Ideology and the Crusade against Public Education. In D. L. Rudnick (Ed.), Resisting Divide-and-Conquer Strategies in Education: Pathways and Possibilities (pp. 19-35). Myers Education Press.
• Atkinson, J. C. (2023). System justification theory and epistemic limitations: Understanding student teachers’ epistemic resistance to critical topics. Journal of Educational Foundations, 36(1), 1-26.
• Atkinson, J. C. (2020). Ideology and the Education Debate: Examining the Powell Memorandum’s Influence on Education Policy and Neoliberal Reform Models. In, K. deMarrais, B. Herron, & J. Copple (Eds.), Conservative Philanthropies: Ideologies and Actions Shaping U.S. Educational Policy and Practice (pp. 17-38). Myers Education Press.
• Atkinson, J. C. and Dotts, B. W. (2019). Impacting Education through Privatized Graduate Schools: Strategic Fields, Charter Networks, and the Relay Graduate School of Education. In T. J. Brewer & C. Lubienski (Eds.), Becoming a teacher in an age of reform: Global lessons for teacher preparation and the teaching profession (pp. 91-111). New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
• deMarrais, K., Brewer, T. J., Herron, B., Atkinson, J. C. & Lewis, J. B. (2019). Philanthropy, Hidden Strategy, and Collective Resistance: A Primer for Concerned Educators. Myers Education Press.
• Atkinson, J. C. (2017). Countering the neos: Dewey and the democratic ethos in teacher education. Democracy and Education, 25(2), Article 2.
• Atkinson, J. C. (2016, March 23). Review of Capitalism’s Educational Catastrophe: And the Advancing Endgame Revolt! by R. J. Rosa & J. J. Rosa. Education Review, 23.

Research and professional interests

• Sociohistorical issues in education
• Educational law and state-level educational policy
• Politics of education
• Social psychology and social epistemology of teachers
• Social justice and critical issues in education
• Social foundations of education as a field of study

Awards and honors