- Associate Professor
- Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education (CSSTE)
Biography
Links to Profiles and Websites
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John Lupinacci is an associate professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning. He received his PhD from Eastern Michigan University.
His research has focused on how people, specifically educators, learn to both identify and examine destructive habits of modern human culture and how educators can work to strengthen local democracy, children’s rights, and sustainability. His work proposes that, through education, teachers can be leaders in confronting dominant assumptions about existing as individuals separate from and superior to the greater ecological systems to which we belong. He explains:
“As agents of change, we all have both the capacity and the responsibility to make an ethical choice to examine and challenge how dominant Western cultural ways of thinking have isolated us from recognizing the relationships that make up our ecological existence.”
Dr. Lupinacci teaches pre-service teachers and graduate students in the Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education (CSSTE) program using an approach that advocates for the development of scholar-activist educators. He has taught at the secondary level in Detroit and the author of the books and articles that include Ecocritical Perspectives in Teacher Education (*See disclaimer) and EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse, Democratic, and Sustainable Communities (3rd Edition). His experiences as a high school math and science teacher, an outdoor environmental educator, and a community activist and artists all contribute to examining the relationships between schools and the reproduction of the cultural roots of social suffering and environmental degradation.
When not working, Johnny can be found on the air hosting the national radio show/podcast BustED Pencils (*See disclaimer) or at the local ice rink coaching WSU Hockey where he is the head coach of the Men’s ACHA Division 2 team.
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