University of West Georgia

Lara Willox, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Phone: 678-839-6059 | Fax: 678-839-6063

Email:  lwillox@westga.edu

Office: Education Annex 126

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Biography

Lara Willox is an Assistant Professor of Early Learning and Childhood Education at the University of West Georgia. Her research is in the area of collaborative action research, elementary social studies education, and teaching for social responsibility. She is active in the College and University Faculty Assembly (CUFA) of the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS); she is the chair of the elementary social studies special interest group. She advocates for the inclusion of social studies curriculum in the elementary grades, and focuses her teaching and research on socially just and responsible education. Prior to completing her doctorate at UNC Chapel Hill, she taught for twelve years in public elementary schools in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Education/Degrees

• B.S., Elementary Education, East Carolina University, 1994
• M.Ed., Elementary Education, University of North Carolina, 2005
• PhD, Education, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 2011

Courses Taught

• ECED-4286 (Teaching Internship) [ View Syllabus ]
• ECED-4289 (Teaching Internship Seminar) [ View Syllabus ]

Spring 2011

• ECED-4261 (Tch Content/Process:Soc Stud) Sec. 03 [ View Syllabus ]

Selected Publications

• Willox, L. & Passe, J. (2012). Interdisciplinary approaches to social issues. In Pedersen, J. & Totten, S. (Eds.). Educating About Social Issues in the 20th and 21st Centuries Vol 1 A Critical Annotated Bibliography. Charlotte: Information Age Publishers.
• Bolick, C., Adams, R. & Willox, L. (2010). The marginalization of elementary social studies in teacher education. Social Studies Research and Practice, 5 (2) 1-22.
• Passe, J. & Willox L. (2009). Teaching Religion in America's Public Schools: A Necessary Disruption. The Social Studies, 100(3) 102-106.