Janet Bixby

Associate Dean of the Graduate School / Associate Professor of Education

office: 211 Rogers Hall
phone: 503-768-6003
e-mail: bixby@lclark.edu

Professional Biography

Dr. Janet Bixby is Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Education at the Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling, where she has been on the faculty since 2001. Janet began her teaching career as a Social Studies teacher at Brainerd High School in Minnesota (where the film Fargo was really filmed), and also taught high school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After getting her Master's degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, she joined the faculty at Lewis & Clark. At Lewis & Clark she has been teaching courses on curriculum and pedagogy in secondary social studies as well as professional seminars on secondary teaching.

Her research interests include youth civic education and activism, authentic assessment, teaching controversial issues, educational equity and teacher education. She has also been a consultant and curriculum developer through various educational grants.

Publications

Bixby, J.S. (expected 2008). To Think, Live, and Breathe Politics: Experiencing Democratic Citizenship in Chicago. In J.S. Bixby & Pace, J.L. Educating Citizens in Troubled Times: Qualitative Studies of Current Efforts. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press.

Pace, J.L. and Bixby, J.S. (expected 2008). Introduction: Studying Citizenship Education in Troubled Times. In J.S. Bixby & Pace, J.L. Educating Citizens in Troubled Times: Qualitative Studies of Current Efforts. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press.

Bixby, J.S. and J.L. Pace (Ed.s) (expected 2008). Educating Citizens in Troubled Times: Qualitative Studies of Current Efforts. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press. Co-editor of a volume of qualitative studies.

Oregon Public Broadcasting (2007). American History in the Making Volume I.

Co-authored segments of this multi-media professional development program for secondary teachers on American History from pre-contact to 1865.

Oregon Public Broadcasting (2008). American History in the Making Volume II.

Co-authored segments of this multi-media professional development program for secondary teachers on American History from1865 to the present. .

Bixby, J. (2006). Authority in Detracked High School Classrooms: Tensions Among Individualism, Equity, and Legitimacy. In J. Pace and A. Hemmings (Ed.s) Classroom Authority: Theory, Research, and Practice. Mahwah, N. J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Bixby, J. and C. Unger. (2003). Learning Center: Introduction to the OHS Learning Center. Introductory webpage to the Oregon Historical Society Museum’s website’s Learning Center designed to help secondary social studies teachers access and use the Society’s significant on-line document collection. http://www.ohs.org/ education/oregonhistory/ learning_center/ dspPrint.cfm?resource_ID=00046EE1-C93D-1E3E- 9CB580B05272FE9F (June 12, 2006).

Academic Credentials

Ph.D. 2002 University of Wisconsin at Madison
M.Ed. 1989 Harvard University
A.B. 1986 Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges