ABOUT
Dr. Lori Meier currently serves as a Professor in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction. Her teaching areas include curriculum studies, social studies teacher education, elementary education, and multicultural education. Her research interests include curriculum theory, elementary social studies education, qualitative research methodologies, currere, out-of-school educational environments, humanizing pedagogies for teacher education, and popular culture in education.
Notably, Dr. Meier was the recipient of ETSU's prestigious top teaching honor, the Distinguished Faculty Award in Teaching in 2019. Dr. Meier also coordinates the M. Ed. in Curriculum & Instruction graduate program for new and veteran educators seeking advanced studies and scholarship in education.
Dr. Meier has published scholarly work in several notable journals and regularly presents at various educational conferences such as the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theorizing and Classroom Practice (JCT), the Currere Exchange Conference, and the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS). She completed her doctoral studies at the University of Central Florida. Prior to joining the professoriate, she taught at an innovative and diverse, year-round, public elementary school and spent several years as a district professional developer for a large school system on the east coast of Florida.