Dr. Stephanie Serriere, a Professor of social studies education at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus (IUPUC), seeks to promote youth civic engagement through engaged scholarship in schools and communities. As a recent recipients of IU’s Racial Justice Grant funded by IU Vice President for Research and the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Multicultural Affairs, her research on Hoosier youth activists working for racial justice was recently (2023) published in Theory & Research in Social Education, “Like someone’s got you:” External supports for youth activists and intersectional justice.”
Serriere seeks to determine the mechanisms that support engaged and critical citizenship. In her book, Civic Education in the Elementary Years: Promoting student engagement in the era of accountability (2015, Teachers College Press), she describes a longitudinal study on a public “democratic” elementary school from the perspective of teachers, youth, school leaders, and community members. She has published over 30 peer-reviewed articles, including two publications in the American Educational Research Journal She nationally recognized in her service as a civics content consultant for PBS Kids programming, and as an editorial board member for the National Council for the Social Studies' (NCSS) leading research journal, Theory & Research in Social Education.
Her engaged scholarship supports pre-service teachers, practicing teachers, and public entities promoting youth leadership and civic participation. Most recently, Stephanie directed Indiana’s first iEngage Youth Civic Empowerment camp with IU’s Center on Representative Government (CoRG), modeled after Baylor University’s award-winning model.
In her free time, she loves trail running, doing yoga, and going on hikes with her family and their golden retriever, Maggie.
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