Walter C. Parker
Walter Parker is Professor of Education and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington. His specialization is the civic development of children and adolescents, and social studies curriculum and instruction K-12. He teaches social studies curriculum and instruction courses in the Teacher Education Program and graduate seminars on national and postnational democratic education. His interests are suggested by the titles of his written work. Books include Renewing the Social Studies Curriculum (1991), Educating the Democratic Mind (1996), Social Studies in Elementary Education (2005), Education for Democracy: Curricula, Contexts, Assessments (2002), and Teaching Democracy: Unity and Diversity in Public Life (2003). He is also the research department editor for the journal Social Education. His community service includes assistance to the Washington State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction and to social studies curriculum coordinators in Washington school districts. He directs an annual summer institute on classroom discussion facilitation--both Seminar and Deliberation--called "Can We Talk?"