Alan Sears

I am a Professor Emeritus of Social Studies Education in the Faculty of Education at UNB and a Fellow of the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society. I have been a social studies teacher for more than 40 years working at all levels from primary to graduate school. In the Faculty of Education at UNB I teach undergraduate courses in teaching methods, social studies education, and international education and graduate courses in research methods and educational policy.

My research and writing have been in the fields of social studies, citizenship education, and history education. I have authored more than 50 articles and book chapters and as well as authoring and editing both academic books and school textbooks. I am Editor of the journal Citizenship Teaching and Learning. My books include Globalization, the Nation-State and the Citizen: Dilemmas and Directions for Civics and Citizenship Education (co-editor) and Education, Politics and Religion: Reconciling the Civic and the Sacred in Education (coauthor) both published by Routledge. My most recent book, coauthored with a team from around the world is, Education, Globalization and The Nation published by Palgrave Macmillan.