Jonathan (JD) McCausland, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Education
- Office:
- 82 President Street, Room 24-3
- Email:
- jmccausland@iona.edu
Degrees:
- Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction, The Pennsylvania State University
- M.A., Middle Childhood Education, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
- B.S., Environmental Resource Management, The Pennsylvania State University
Dr. JD McCausland teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on educational methods, teacher research, and science education. His research focuses on the role of white supremacy in science and science teacher learning. Specifically, Dr. McCausland's scholarship draws upon critical whiteness studies, sociocultural theories of learning, and anti-racist science teaching. Before joining Iona University, he was an Assistant Professor of STEM Education at New Mexico Highlands University and worked as a science teacher in New York City where he served students labeled as "over-age and under-credited."
McCausland, J. & McDonald, S. (2024). White shame and white ambivalence in learning to be a well-started White anti-racist science teacher. Journal of Research in Science Teaching.
McCausland, J. & McDonald, S. (2023). Redesigning a science teacher preparation program for equity: Using critical whiteness pedagogy to educate secondary science interns. Innovations in Science Teacher Education.
McCausland, J., Jackson, J., McDonald, S., Bateman, K., Pallant, A., & Lee, H. (2023). Science teachers’ negotiation of professional vision around dilemmas of science teaching in a professional development context. Journal of Science Teacher Education.
McCausland, J. (2022). Learning “real” science: Storying whiteness in university science labs. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy.