Seth Andrew Mccall, Edd Email & Phone Number

What do we make of curriculum ? Does it get in the way? Or, is it life itself? If we consider it problematic, how do we relate to it? Do we burn it down? Do we graciously submit to it? Or, do we trouble it? As an early career scholar in teacher education and curriculum studies, I address these questions with the next generation of teachers.After completing my Bachelors of Science in Social Studies Education with distinction and completing my Masters in Adaptive Special Education, I left the University of Kansas to teach in Austin, Texas; Saint Louis, Missouri; and New York, New York. Teaching in a range of schools and in a range of states introduced me to different ways of doing school. It also provided multiple opportunities to get to know these places. While in New York, I enrolled at Teachers College, Columbia University to complete my doctorate in Curriculum & Teaching, opening up all sorts of new possibilities to build upon my experiences in schools. I engaged in service around diversity, equity, and inclusion by working with a student organization, developing a departmental student advisory council, leading participatory action research on lived experiences of diversity, and initiating an annual graduate student-led conference that provided layers of near-peer mentorship for graduate students. Within the department of Curriculum & Teaching, I developed an expertise around curriculum studies through coursework, a teaching assistantship, and adjunct teaching. Through the department, I also contributed to the founding of the Curriculum Lab, a group dedicated to engaging with the complexities of curriculum and curriculum design.Teachers College also plugged me into the Center for Technology and School Change, where I refined my expertise around qualitative research on large-scale grants. These grants provided opportunities to practice transcription, coding, memoing, interviewing, participant observation, field notes, writing reports, writing research papers, and mentoring others about qualitative research.After completing my dissertation, Becoming Otherwise, I set out to write a book about a book my great aunt gave me, shortly before she died. A Troubling Inheritance engages with problematic curricula. While teachers might feel they want to burn the curriculum or submit to it entirely, my book explores another option, troubling the problematic curriculum to rework it toward new ends.

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  Assistant Professor Of Education

  Lake Superior State University

  Aug 2024 - Present - Sault Saint Marie, Michigan, United States

  In my work, I teach Social Studies and Special Education Teacher Education courses, lead the secondary education program, and reimagining the field experiences for our students. In my work, I foreground an appreciation of the local through place-based education and care and creativity with local archives.