Mathews, Sarah

Mathews, Sarah
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Associate Professor, Teaching and Learning , College of Arts, Sciences & Education

Contact Info

samathew@fiu.edu

overview

Sarah Mathews has been teaching social studies and education courses for over 14 years. Her bachelor's and master's degrees are in Social Studies Education and her Doctoral degree was in Curriculum and Instruction. Dr. Mathews has taught or engaged in educational research in Egypt, Kenya, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Uganda, and Venezuela. She currently serves as the leader of the Social Studies Education Program.

Awards: MSC&I Jamaica, FIU College of Education Faculty Member of the Year Award (2011-2015), Kipchoge Kirkland Social Justice Award (2006)

research interests

Social Studies Education
Global Citizenship Education
Pedagogies to develop Perspective Consciousness and Intercultural Competence
Emergent Methods in Qualitative Research
Digital Participatory Research

selected publications

Article
- 2022
  
  "Honestly, I Had a Very Strong Reaction to this Reading": Social Studies Pre-Service Teachers' Application of Literacy Frameworks While Engaging with a Graphic Textbook
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/jaal.1224 Web of Science: 000756139800001
- 2022
  
  Black Lives matter in school: Using the 13 guiding principles as critical race pedagogies for Black citizenship education
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jssr.2022.03.001
- 2021
  
  Out of many, one people: Jamaican teachers’ perspectives of global learning
- 2017
  
  Global Perspective Development as Sustained Micromovements over Time: Examining an International Student-Teaching Experience Five Years Later
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/01626620.2017.1336129
- 2017
  
  Framing and Exposing Community Issues through Video Participatory Research: An Emerging Approach for Adult Education
  Full Text via DOI: 10.4018/IJAVET.2017040104 Web of Science: 000413367200005
- 2016
  
  Developing a Framework to Evaluate the Potential of Global Learning in MOOCs
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/nha3.20157 Web of Science: 000387779300002
- 2016
  
  Using digital participatory research to foster glocal competence: constructing multimedia projects as a form of global and civic citizenship
- 2015
  
  Examining Jamaican Teachers’ Global Perspectives: Prospects for Vision 2030 Jamaica
  Full Text via DOI: 10.5430/irhe.v1n1p19
- 2013
  
  Contradictions of democratic education: International teachers' perspectives on democracy in American schools
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jssr.2013.08.003
- 2012
  
  Representing embodiment and the policy implementing principal using photovoice
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1108/09578231211264702 Web of Science: 000211869600005
- 2011
  
  Framing Preservice Teachers' Interpretations of Graphic Novels in the Social Studies Classroom
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/00933104.2011.10473461 Web of Science: 000437976800004
- 2009
  
  Disrupting the amazing race: Education, exploration, and exploitation in reality television
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/00933104.2009.10473396
- 2008
  
  Case studies of preservice teachers’ ideas about the role of multicultural citizenship education in social studies
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/00933104.2008.10473380
Book Chapter
- 2021
  
  Framing and Exposing Community Issues through Video Participatory Research. 747-760.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7706-6.ch044
- 2017
  
  Mediating the space between: Using photo-elicitation to prompt cultural consciousness-raising. 177-200.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-64413-4_9
- 2015
  
  Discussions within online learning formats: Are meaningful encounters with difference possible?. 133-152.
- 2015
  
  Examining Community with Pre-service Teachers Through the Use of Participatory Photography Projects. 295-319.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-22939-3_16
- 2012
  
  NATHAN BOUND (2010-PRESENT) Journey Towards the Centennial Celebration. 353-364.
  Web of Science: 000299434600033
Book Review
- 2019
  
  Critical peace education and global citizenship: Narratives from the unofficial curriculum. Ed. 47.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/00933104.2018.1518096 Web of Science: 000481536300008
Other Scholarly Work
- 2017
  
  Special Issue on Expanding the Role of Emergent Methods in Adult and Vocational Education Preface. V-VI.
  Web of Science: 000413367200001

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