Stephen A. Rose is a Professor of Education in the College of Education
and Human Services at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. He holds
a PH.D. in Social Studies Education and Curriculum and Instruction
from The Ohio State University. His areas of expertise are social
studies education, curriculum and instruction, and the utilization
of technology to foster authentic teaching and collaborative learning.
He has thirty years of teaching experience. His current teaching
duties involve teaching social studies methods and curriculum courses
as well as teaching The Individual, School and Society courses and
supervising clinicians and student teachers at the undergraduate
level. At the graduate level, he teaches elementary and secondary
social studies curriculum course and educational history.
Dr. Rose has extensive experience as a social studies methods instructor
who integrates technology into social studies methods. The methods
courses he teaches are part of the social studies learning community
in the COEHS that combines the same cohort of methods students in
an educational technology and content reading classes with a social
studies methods class that has a clinical experience. This instructional
innovation was published in Social Education.
Dr. Rose is the author of numerous professional papers presented
at national and International conferences about teaching social
studies, and the utilization of technology to promote authentic
instruction and collaborative learning His publications have appeared
in the Kappen, Social Education, Theory and Research in Social Education,
The Social Studies, Journal of Technology and Teacher Education,
and in Human Services Today. For the past six years, he has directed
inquiry-based collaborative learning projects named WebSTAR which
make use of technology to bring together learners at a distance
to address substantive content. The participants in these projects
have been language arts, special education, and social studies pre-service
teachers and their professors at various colleges and universities
throughout Wisconsin as well as middle school students in three
schools at a distance studying the Bill of Rights with the aid of
university students serving as online mentors. The most resent article
describing the research findings of these projects is published
in the Journal of Technology and Teacher Education. Dr. Rose is
also President-elect of the Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies
and consults with the Wisconsin Department of Instruction about
academic and teacher licensure standards in social studies. He is
one of several coauthors of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction’s
Planning Curriculum in Social Studies.
