Dr. Meghan Manfra (PhD) is a Professor in the Department of Teacher Education and Learning Sciences at from North Carolina State University and an affiliate member of the Center for Information Technology and Public Life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She attended Elon College as a North Carolina Teaching Fellow and began her career as a high school history teacher. She completed a master’s degree in history at the University of North Carolina -Greensboro and received her PhD in education at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. There she was awarded The University of North Carolina’s Graduate Education Impact Award. Meghan is the author of Action Research for Classrooms, Schools, and Communities and editor of the Handbook of Social Studies Research. Her research has appeared in 46 journal articles and book chapters. In 2020 she was awarded the National Technology Leadership Initiative Fellowship for her research on media literacy. Her recent grants include a Spencer Foundation research grant and a Library of Congress Consortium grant. Dr Manfra previously served as the educational assessment coordinator for NSF’s ASSIST Nanotechnology Engineering Research Center at NC State. She was also the evaluator for the Durham/Franklin County Teaching American History Grant (US DOE), the Maryland Humanities Teaching with Inquiry project (PBS), and the Minecraft Education (Microsoft/Florida International University) program. She has been the external evaluator for numerous NSF-funded projects including AccelNet (Next Generation Carbons) and several Research Experiences for Undergraduate programs (REUs, including PRECISE, We Focus, Security of Smart Things, ASTERIX). She regularly contracts with North Carolina’s Department of Public Instruction to support their curriculum and instruction efforts. She and her husband, Dennis, have two daughters, Mia and Annabelle. In her free time she loves to run or hike in Umstead State Park with her dog, Watson.
2021 book
Action research for classrooms, schools, and communities
Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications, Inc.
2021 article
Assessing computational thinking in the social studies
Manfra, M. M. G., Hammond, T. C., & Coven, R. M. (2021, December 16). THEORY AND RESEARCH IN SOCIAL EDUCATION, Vol. 12.
2020 journal article
Integrating media literacy in social studies teacher education
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 20(1). https://citejournal.org/volume-20/issue-1-20/social-studies/integrating-media-literacy-in-social-studies-teacher-education
2020 journal article
Integrating the C3 Framework in the social studies: an action research study
Social Studies Research and Practice, 16(1), 28–42.
2019 article
Action Research and Systematic, Intentional Change in Teaching Practice
CHANGING TEACHING PRACTICE IN P-20 EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS, Vol. 43, pp. 163–196.
2019 book
Action research for classrooms, schools, and communities
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
2019 chapter
Participatory Literacy and Taking Informed Action in the Social Studies
In Participatory Literacy Practices for P-12 Classrooms in the Digital Age (pp. 40–56).
2019 journal article
What’s new about fake news? Integrating digital history for media literacy
Social Education, 83(2), 113–117.
2018 journal article
Media literacy and fake news in the social studies
Social Education, 82(2), 91–95.
2017 journal article
"The Connecting Carolina” teaching with primary sources program
Social Education, 81(2), 109–111.
2017 chapter
Practitioner research in the social studies: Findings from action research and self-study
In M. M. Manfra & C. M. Bolick (Eds.), The Wiley Handbook of Social Studies Research (pp. 132–167). Boston, MA: Wiley.
2017 book
2016 chapter
No More Playing in the Dark: Twenty-First Century Citizenship, Critical Race Theory, and the Future of the Social Studies Methods Course
In Rethinking Social Studies Teacher Education in the Twenty-First Century (pp. 61–79).
2016 journal article
Teach For America’s preferential treatment: School district contracts, hiring decisions, and employment practices
Education Policy Analysis Archives, 24, 15.
2016 journal article
Technology and disciplined inquiry in the world history classroom
Social Education, 80(2), 123–128.
2016 journal article
Which woman should appear on U.S. currency? Using primary sources to explore important historical figures
Social Studies and the Young Learner, 29(1), 27–32.
2015 journal article
Student Documentaries Based on the C3 Framework
Social Education, 79(2), 111–114.
2014 journal article
History through a child’s eye: Preservice teachers making sense of children’s understandings
Social Studies Research and Practice, 9(3), 1–20.
2013 chapter
Action Research for Educational Communications and Technology
In Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology (pp. 161–172).
2013 journal article
Creative synthesis and TPACK: Supporting teachers through a technology and inquiry-rich graduate degree program
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Journal, 13(4).
2013 journal article
Grand challenges: Nanotechnology and the social studies
Social Education, 77(2), 95–98.
2013 chapter
Things said and done: Using digital tools to enhance historical memory
In T. Lintner (Ed.), Integrative strategies for the K-12 social studies classroom (pp. 191–208). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Press.
Ed(s): T. Lintner
2012 chapter
TPACK Vernaculars in Social Studies Research
In Educational Technology, Teacher Knowledge, and Classroom Impact (pp. 158–175).
2012 journal article
Touch, type, and transform: iPads in the social studies classroom
Social Education, 76(2), 88–91.
2012 journal article
“You have to know the past to (blog) the present:” Using an Educational Blog to Engage Students in U.S. History
Computers in the Schools, 29(1-2), 118–134.
2011 journal article
A digital view of history: Drawing and discussing models of historical concepts
Social Education, 75(2), 102–106.
2011 journal article
Leveraging the affordances of educational blogs to teach low-achieving students United States history
Social Studies Research and Practice, 6(2), 95–105.
2010 journal article
Blogging to learn: Educational blogs and U.S. history
Social Education, 74(2), 111–113, 116.
2010 chapter
From personal pastime to curricular resource: The case of digital documentaries in the social studies
In R. Diem & M. Berson (Eds.), Technology in Retrospect: Social Studies’ Place in the Information Age 1984-2009 (pp. 93–107). Information Age Publishing.
Ed(s): R. Diem & M. Berson
2009 journal article
Action research: Exploring the theoretical divide between practical and critical approaches
Journal of Curriculum & Instruction, 3(1), 32–46.
2009 journal article
Authentic intellectual work on school desegregation: The digital history of Massive Resistance in Norfolk, Virginia
Social Education, 73(3), 131–135.
2009 journal article
Critical Inquiry in the Social Studies Classroom: Portraits of Critical Teacher Research
Theory & Research in Social Education, 37(2), 156–191.
2009 journal article
Digital history with student-created multimedia: Understanding student perceptions
Social Studies Research & Practice, 4(3), 139–150.
2009 journal article
Giving, prompting, making: Aligning technology and pedagogy within TPACK for social studies instruction
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 9(2), 160–185.
2008 chapter
Digital history and citizenship education
In P. J. VanFossen & M. J. Berson (Eds.), The electronic republic? The impact of technology on education for citizenship (pp. 196–213). West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press.
Ed(s): P. VanFossen & M. Berson
2008 journal article
Powerful and Authentic Digital Media and Strategies for Teaching about Genocide and the Holocaust
The Social Studies, 99(6), 260–264.
2008 journal article
Reinventing master’s degree study for experienced social studies teachers
Social Studies Research & Practice, 3(2), 29–41.
2008 journal article
Teachers' instructional choices with student-created digital documentaries: Case studies
Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 41(2), 37–59.
2008 journal article
Teachers’ Instructional Choices with Student-Created Digital Documentaries
Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 41(2), 223–245.
2007 journal article
"It's about the Kids": Transforming Teacher-Student Relationships through Action Research
The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 80(5), 217–222.
2007 journal article
The course of the republic: American responses to technology in the nineteenth century
Social Education, 71(3), 146–152.
2007 journal article
Using the "Documenting the American South" Digital Library in the social studies: A case study of the experiences of teachers in the field
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 7(1), 529–553.
2005 journal article
Twenty years of technology: A retrospective view of Social Education’s technology themed issues
Social Education, 69(3), 155–161.
2004 journal article
Harriet Jacobs: Using on-line slave narratives in the classroom
Social Education, 68(4), 198–202.
2004 journal article
Opening their eyes: Picture books in high school social studies classes
The Dragon Lode, 22(2), 22–29.
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