 | John M. Heffron, PhDFaculty - Full-TimeStudent Affairs Staff Dean of Students Professor of History Title IX & Section 504 Deputy Coordinator For Students Phone: 949-480-4028 |
Education
- Ph.D., University of Rochester
- M.A., University of Rochester
- B.A., Princeton University
Positions Held
- At SUA since 1996
- 1997 - 2013, Director of Educational Research Programs; Associate Director Pacific Basin Research Center, Soka University of America
- 1991 - 1996, Assistant Professor University of Hawaii at Manoa
- 1990 - 1991, Visiting Assistant Professor Montana State University
Research Interests
- Development History
- U.S. Relations in Asia and the Pacific
- Educational History
Selected Papers, Publications & Lectures
- William L. Ascher and John M. Heffron, eds. Cultural Change and Persistence: New Perspectives on Development, Palgrave MacMillan, 2010
- Dennis A. Rondinelli and John M. Heffron, eds. Leadership for Development in a Globalizing Society: What Globalization Demands of Leaders Fighting for Change, Kumarian Press, 2009
- Dennis A. Rondinelli and John M. Heffron, eds. Globalization And Change In Asia, Lynn Rienner, 2007
- “Between Reconstruction and Restoration: Three Historical Case Studies,” John D. Montgomery and Dennis A. Rondinelli, ed., Beyond Reconstruction in Afghanistan: Lessons for Development Experience (Pelgrave Macmillan), 2004
- “Beyond Community and Society: The Externalities of Social CapitalBuilding,” John D. Montgomery and Alex Inkeles, ed., Social Capital as a Policy Resource (Kluwer), 2001
- “The Lincoln School of Teachers College: Elitism and Educational Democracy,” Susan F. Semel and Alan R. Sadovnik, ed., Schools of Tomorrow, Schools of Today: What Happened to Progressive Education? (Peter Lang), 1999
- "Nation-Building for a Venerable South: Moral and Practical Uplift in the New Agricultural Education, 1900-1920,” Wayne J. Urban, ed., The Limits of Exceptionalism: Southern Education in the Twentieth Century (Garland Press),1999
- “ 'to form a more perfect Union': The Moral Example of Southern Baptist Thought and Education,'" Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation, 8 (Summer 1998):179-204., 1998
- “Defining Values,” John D. Montgomery, ed., Values in Education: Social Capital Formation in Asia and the Pacific (Hollis Publishing), 1997
- "Toward a Cybernetic Pedagogy: The Cognitive Revolution and the Classroom, 1948 - Present," Educational Theory, 4 (Fall 1995): 497-518, 1995
- "Science and the Challenge of Public Education," History of Education Quarterly 36 (Summer 1995): 179-187, 1995
- "Science in General Education: Otis W. Caldwell (1869-1947) and the Rise of the Unified Science Course," Science & Education, 4 (September 1995): 227-252, 1995
Courses Taught at SUA
- The City in History
- The Intellectual in History
- Science, Myth, and Religion
- CORE I & II
- The American Experience
- Historical Foundations of Western Education
- Religion and U.S. Society
Selected Honors & Awards
- Fulbright Teaching Award Finalist, 2005
- National Endowment for the Humanities, 1991
