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Accreditation Report 2002
Core Campuses: Bloomington and Indianapolis
for the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education
and the Indiana Professional Standards Board

Faculty Vita

C Frederick Risinger, M.S.

Title: Director, Professional Development, School Services, and Summer Sessions; Coordinator, Social Studies Education & Master of Arts in Teaching Social Studies; Director, National Clearinghouse for U.S.-Japan Studies
Office: W. W. Wright Education Building, room 4066
Campus: Bloomington
Year of appointment: 1973


Academic Degrees

M.S. Northern Illinois University 1968 Asian History (with honors)
B.S. Southern Illinois University 1961 History Education (with honors)

Professional Experience

1997-Present Director, Professional Development, School Services, and Summer Sessions, School of Education, Indiana University, Bloomington
1995-Present Associate Director, Teacher Education, School of Education, Indiana University, Bloomington
1992-Present Coordinator, Social Studies Education, School of Education, Indiana University, Bloomington
1986-1993 Associate Director, Social Studies Development Center and ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education, Indiana University, Bloomington.
1990-Present Director, National Clearinghouse for United States-Japan Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington.
1990- Team Leader, Keizai Koho Center Fellowship Tour to Japan.
1973-1986 Coordinator for School Social Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington.
1989- Member, NCSS/ European Union Study Tour of Europe

Selected Publications

    "Women's Issues in an Era of Inclusion," Canadian Social Studies, v31 n2 pp99, 101 Winter 1997.

    "Citizenship Education in the Curriculum," Canadian Social Studies, v31 n3 pp154, Spring 1997.

    "Critical Thinking in the Social Studies: A Discussion and Review of ERIC Literature," Canadian Social Studies, v31 n4 pp197-99, Summer, 1997.

    "Teaching Economics: New Approaches to a Familiar Subject," Canadian Social Studies, v31 n4 pp193-95, Summer, 1997

    "Instructional Strategies for the World Wide Web." Social Educatiion, v62, n2 pp110-112, February, 1998

    "Separating Wheat from Chaff: Why Dirty Pictures Are Not the Real Dilemma in Using the Internet to Teach Social Studies." Social Education, v62 n3 pp148-50, March, 1998.

    "Geography Education." Canadian Social Studies, v32 n3 pp101, Spring, 1998.

    Surfing Social Studies: The Internet Book, (Co-editor with Joseph A. Braun), National Council for the Social Studies, January, 2000.

    Creating America (Co-Author with Jesus Garcia, Donna Ogle, and Joyce Stevos), McDougal-Littell, Evanston, IL, January, 2001.

    "Social Studies Portals: More than Just a Web Page," Social Education, v62 n4 pp88-91, April, 2000.

    DEMOCRACY.com? Thomas Jefferson, the Internet, and the Future of American Democracy," Social Education, v.64, n5, pp305-07, September, 2000.

    "Teaching Social Issues Using the Internet," Social Education, v64, n7, pp455-457, November-December, 2000.

    "Casting a Wider Net: Web Tools for Social Studies Teachers, Social Education,v65, pp155-158, April, 2001.

    "Teaching Elementary and Secondary History Using the Internet," Social Education, v65, pp297-300, September, 2001.

    "Teaching Economics and the Globalization Debate on the World Wide Web," Social Education, v65, pp 363-366, October 2001.

    "Teaching about Terrorism, Islam, and Tolerance Using the Internet," Social Education, v65, pp 426-428, November, 2001.

Current Professional and Academic Association Memberships

    Phi Delta Kappa
    National Council for the Social Studies (President, 1990-1991)
    National Council for History Education
    Learning Magazine, Editorial Advisory Board
    Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, and Kentucky Councils for the Social Studies
    Social Science Education Consortium
    Educational Resources Center, Inc.
    National Education Association

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