Daniel F. Davis
Position:		Clinical Assistant Professor
Department:		Curriculum and Teaching
Program:		History and Social Science Education

Educational History

Ph.D. Academic Faculty of Humanities Education�Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Master of Arts in Social Studies�The City University of New York at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York
Bachelor of Science in Education�The State University of New York, College at Oswego, New York

Contact Information
Phone:		617-3535-3314
E-mail:		dfdavis@bu.edu

Profile

Dr. Davis has been involved in the field of secondary education for over thirty years as a social studies teacher, department chairman, and principal. Dr. Davis is primarily responsible for training teachers in history and social science education and general secondary curriculum, instruction and assessment. Dr. Davis teaches Curriculum and Special Methods for History and Social Science and general methods for secondary education majors. He also teaches Learning and Teaching about The Cold War through Film, Television and Primary Sources, using an electronic portfolio. His area of professional interest is in the development of concept formation, critical thinking, information technology and the art of questioning as they relate to the teaching of history and social science and general secondary education. Dr. Davis co-authored The United States Since 1945, Unfinished Journey and A History of the World. He also served as Co-Director of The Harvard Project on East Asian Studies in Education. He received an NEH Fellowship for an independent study of Harris Wofford: Pragmatic Idealism and the Art of the Possible. He was Project Coordinator of “The American Covenant: The Moral Uses of Power,” sponsored by the NEH and The National Humanities Faculty. Dr. Davis was also awarded numerous Horace Mann Grants from the Massachusetts Department of Education. BS, State University of New York, Oswego; MAT, City University of New York, Brooklyn College; Ph.D, The Ohio State University

Courses Taught

SED�SO572 �Methods of Teaching History and Social Science (For Course Resources)
SED�CT575 �General Methods of Instruction, 5-12
SED�SO572 �Methods of Teaching History and Social Science

Selected Publications

Marvin Perry and Daniel F. Davis, The Modern Era. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1995.
"The Reform Movement of 1898: Qing China Rejects a Peaceful Revolution." New England Journal of History, Vol. 49, Number 1, Spring 1992, pp.66-77.
Bragdon & McCutchen, A History of a Free Nation, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, Mission Hills, CA: 1992 (Ch. 32 "Civil Rights/Kennedy Years")
Daniel F. Davis and Norman Lunger, The United States Since 1945. New York: Scholastic Inc., 1987.
Marvin Perry, Daniel F. Davis, and Jeannette G. Harris. A History of the World. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1985, 1990, 1992, 1995
"China and Japan on the Eve of Modernization: Some Predisposing Factors." East Asia: Geographical and Historical Approaches to Foreign Area Studies, Ch.7. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co.
Marvin Perry, Daniel F. Davis, and Jeannette G. Harris. Unfinished Journey. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1980.
Author of Instructor's Guide, Student Activities Book and Testing Program that accompanied Unfinished Journey.

Selected Publications

�(). �"China and Japan on the Eve of Modernization: Some Predisposing Factors." East Asia: Geographical and Historical Approaches to Foreign Area Studies, Ch.7. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co. "The Reform Movement of 1898: Qing China Rejects a Peaceful Revolution." New England Journal of History, Vol. 49, Number 1, Spring 1992, pp.66-77. Author of Instructor's Guide, Student Activities Book and Testing Program that accompanied Unfinished Journey. Bragdon & McCutchen, A History of a Free Nation, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, Mission Hills, CA: 1992 (Ch. 32 "Civil Rights/Kennedy Years") Daniel F. Davis and Norman Lunger, The United States Since 1945. New York: Scholastic Inc., 1987. Marvin Perry and Daniel F. Davis, The Modern Era. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1995. Marvin Perry, Daniel F. Davis, and Jeannette G. Harris. A History of the World. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1985, 1990, 1992, 1995 Marvin Perry, Daniel F. Davis, and Jeannette G. .

Selected Grants

Teaching American History through major themes and ideas�(Summer 2005).
Massachusetts Department of Education competitive grant to help students whose second language is English to learn in the academic areas with the support of appropriate software�(1996- 1997).
Horace Mann Grant from the Massachusetts Department of Education to introduce Portuguese history into the traditional American Studies curriculum�(1990-1991).
Horace Mann Grant to infuse Asian and African history and culture into the existing world history curriculum�(1988- 1989).
Project Coordinator, "The American Covenant: The Moral Uses of Power," sponsored by the National Humanities Faculty and funded by the National Humanities Faculty and the National Endowment for The Humanities�(1974- 2001).

Selected Professional Service

NEH Fellowship: Independent study of Harris Wofford: Pragmatic Idealism and the Art of the Possible.
Portuguese Cultural Foundation, Providence, Rhode Island, Spring 1992: Directed seminar for secondary teachers of Portuguese Studies
“Portugal in Europe” Institute, Summer 1991, Participant, Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island
Principal, September 2000- June 2003, Stoughton High School, Stoughton, MA
Chairman, July 1973 – September 2000, History and Social Science Department, Stoughton High School, Stoughton, MA
Social Studies Teacher, September 1963 - June 1970, North High School, Valley Stream, New York