Eric D. Moffa, Ed.D. Acting Director of Education Studies, Associate Professor of Education

Eric D. Moffa, Ed.D.

Newcomb 107
540-458-8778
moffae@wlu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, West Virginia University, 2016

M.Ed. in Professional Studies, Fairmont State University, 2009

B.A. in Secondary Social Studies Education, Fairmont State University, 2005

Research

Rural Education, Democracy Education, Global Citizenship Education, Digital Citizenship, Teaching Controversial Issues

Teaching

EDUC 200/201: Foundations of Education

EDUC 210: Fieldwork in Education

EDUC 230: Educating Citizens for Democracy

EDUC 235: Educating for Global Citizenship: Policies, Practices, and Purposes in the US and Italy (Spring Term Abroad)

EDUC 353/354: Middle and Secondary Content Area Reading and Writing

EDUC 356/357: Methods for Middle and Secondary Education

EDUC 390: Education Studies Capstone

Supervision of Student-Teachers

Selected Publications

Journal Articles:

Moffa, E. D., & Sigler, H. W. (2024). From the top of the class to the front of a classroom:  Student perceptions of the teaching profession at a highly selective liberal arts university. The Teacher Educators' Journal. 17(1), 100-125. 

Moffa, E. D., & Winston, J. (2023). Examining Virginia’s African American history course through the lens of racial pedagogical content knowledge. The Social Studies. 114(6), 266-281. 

Moffa, E. D. (2022). Hard history in hard contexts: Teaching slavery and its legacy in a neo-Confederate space. Journal of Social Studies Research. 46(4), 293-302.

Moffa, E. D. (2020). Teachers’ perspectives on global citizenship education in central Appalachia. Journal of International Social Studies, 10(3), 45-60. 

Moffa, E. D. (2019). A paradox of place:  Civic education in the rural South. Social Studies Research and Practice, 14(1), 105-121.

Moffa, E. D., & McHenry-Sorber, E. (2018). Learning to be rural: Lessons about being rural in teacher-preparation programs. The Rural Educator, 38(1), 26-40.

Waterson, R. A., & Moffa, E. D. (2016). Citizenship education for proactive democratic life in rural communities. Education, Citizenship, and Social Justice, 11(3), 213-230.

Moffa, E. D. (2016). Fostering global citizenship dispositions: The long-term impact of participating in a high school global service club. The Social Studies, 107(4), 145-152.

Waterson, R. A., & Moffa, E. D. (2015). Applying Deweyan principles to global citizenship education in a rural context. Journal of International Social Studies, 5(1), 129-139.

Book Chapters: 

Moffa, E. D. (2024). Global citizenship education for anti-globalist communities. In J. Zajda & A. Rapoport (Eds.) Discourses of globalisation, active citizenship, and education (pp. 37-50). Springer

Moffa, E. D., & Poling, T. (2020). Growing to thrive: The story of two colleagues prospering in an era of standards-based education. In T. Rodriguez, H. Hallman & K. Pastorka-Capuana (Eds.) Invested stayers: How teachers thrive in challenging times (pp. 81-92). Rowan & Littlefield

Sigler, H., & Moffa, E. D. (2020). Learn, serve, and lead: Examining a model for strengthening community partnerships and student leadership through a service-leadership internship. In F. Kochan, E. Reames & D. Griggs (Eds.) Partnerships for student success and leadership preparation and development (pp. 121-142). Information Age Publishing.

Moffa, E. D. (2018). Build your own course: Creating a controversial issues class at one Appalachian high school. In L. Wilcox and C. Brant (Eds.) It’s being done in social studies: Race, class, gender and sexuality in the pre/k-12 curriculum (pp. 157-168). Information Age Publishing.

Moffa, E. D., Brejwo, C. J., & Waterson, R. A. (2016). Digital citizenship: Social media discourses within social studies. In W. Journell (Ed.), Teaching social studies in an era of divisiveness: The challenges of discussing social issues in a non-partisan way (pp. 143-158). Rowan & Littlefield.