Adam Attwood
Assistant Professor
College of Education
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Contact
- attwooda@apsu.edu
- 931-221-6468
- Claxton Building Room CX 207
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Resources
- College of Education
- Office Hours
- Ph.D. (Education: specialization in Cultural Studies and Social Thought), Washington State University
- M.Ed. (Secondary Teaching), Eastern Washington University
- M.A. (History), Eastern Washington University
- B.A. (History major, Anthropology minor), Eastern Washington University
Dr. Attwood teaches courses in educational psychology, classroom management, assessment and evaluation, and teaching in a pluralistic society. Dr. Attwood has experience as a teacher, teacher leader (social studies department chair, grades 6-12), and teacher educator. He has previously taught in Missouri and Washington. Previously at the college level in Washington, he taught history courses and a course for preservice teachers on integrating the fine arts into K-8 curriculum. K-12 teaching interests include social studies, humanities (integrated language arts and social studies), and arts integration. Dr. Attwood also has experience as a K-12 scholastic chess coach and high school Model United Nations sponsor/coach.
Dr. Attwood’s K-12 licensure to teach has included: Washington (5-12 Social Studies, 5-12 English Language Arts, K-12 Visual Arts); Missouri (9-12 & 5-9 Social Science, 9-12 English, 5-9 Language Arts, K-12 Art, B-3 Early Childhood Education); and Tennessee (6-12 History).
In addition to earning degrees from Washington State University and Eastern Washington University, he completed 70 credits of coursework at Gonzaga University. Internships included work in the decorative arts at a museum, at a public library special collection, and related work at a state digital archive.
- Preservice teacher perceptions
- Philosophy of education
- Aesthetic education
- Social learning theory
- Virtual Reality (VR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education
- Book
- Attwood, A. I. (2018). Social aesthetics and the school environment: A case study of the chivalric ethos. Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-60345-2
- Book Chapters
- Rud, A. G., & Attwood, A. (2016). Dewey Lab School at the University of Chicago. In M. A. Peters (Ed.), Encyclopedia of educational philosophy and theory (pp. 480-484). Springer. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-981-287-532-7_46-1
- Attwood, A. I., & Rud, A. G. (2016). Fostering educational equity through aesthetics: A dialogue in the styles of creativity. In J. Diem (Ed.), The social and cultural foundations of education: A reader (1st ed., pp. 58-73). Cognella. https://www.worldcat.org/title/social-and-cultural-foundations-of-education-a-reader/oclc/957235247
- Attwood, A. I. (2014). Implementing virtual museums in the social studies classroom: An apprenticeship model. In F. Parkay, E. Anctil, & G. Hass (Eds.), Curriculum leadership: Readings for developing quality educational programs (10th ed., pp. 390-394). Pearson. https://www.worldcat.org/title/curriculum-leadership-readings-for-developing-quality-educational-programs/oclc/899643646
- Journal Articles
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Attwood, A. I., & Gerber, J. L. (2020). Comic books and graphic novels for the differentiated humanities classroom. Kappa Delta Pi Record, 56(4), 176-182. https://doi.org/10.1080/00228958.2020.1813520Attwood, A. I., Bruster, B. G., & Bruster, B. G. (2020). An exploratory study of preservice teacher perception of virtual reality and artificial intelligence for classroom management instruction. SRATE Journal, 29(2), 1-9. https://eric.ed.gov/?q=source%3a%22SRATE+Journal%22&ff1=dtyIn_2020&id=EJ1268557
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Attwood, A. I. (2020). Changing social learning theory through reliance on the internet of things and artificial intelligence. Journal of Social Change, 12, 103-111. https://doi.org/10.5590/JOSC.2020.12.1.08
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Attwood, A. I. (2020). Contextualizing aesthetics as social engagement for teacher education. Journal of Social Change, 12, 19-31. https://doi.org/10.5590/JOSC.2020.12.1.03
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- Essays
- Attwood, A. (2019, July). Social aesthetics as component for theorizing education infrastructure. Teachers College Record. Article ID Number 22974. https://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentId=22974
- Attwood, A. (2017, August). On diversity and inclusion in medieval studies for the social studies classroom. Teachers College Record. Article ID Number 22123. https://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentId=22123