Education

• Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, University of Florida
• M.A. in English, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
• B.A. in English, Wake Forest University

Biography

Elizabeth Currin primarily teaches action research and other courses in the Curriculum Studies concentration of the online Ed.D. in Educational Practice and Innovation, in addition to serving as a 2025–2026 Faculty in Focus Ambassador with the Center for Teaching Excellence. Actively involved with the university’s Professional Development Schools Network as the PDS Fellows liaison, she also co-edited PDS Partners: Bridging Research to Practice from 2022–2025. Her prior experience as a high school English teacher influences her scholarly interest in stories by and about teachers, encompassing practitioner inquiry, the history of education, and representations of schools in popular culture.

Selected Publications

Compton-Lilly, C., Currin, E., Gilbertson, E., Latzke, R., & Murphy, A. (2025). A metasynthesis of professional development school scholarship: Lessons for teacher education. School–University Partnerships, 18(2) 267–285. https://doi.org/10.1108/SUP-03-2025-0010

Compton-Lilly, C., Currin, E., Gilbertson, E., Latzke, R., & Murphy, A. S. (2025). Professional development schools as networked, systemic innovations: An elusive search for what we know. In J. Dresden, J. Ferrara, J. E. Neapolitan, & D. Yendol-Hoppey (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of school–university partnerships (pp. 659–675). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009285841.049

Currin, E. (2025). Peggy Hill, patriarchal shill. In R. Grunzke & A. Grunzke (Eds.), The female teacher on television: Shifting stereotypes on the small screen (pp. 149–180). Bloomsbury.

Currin, E., & Tamim, S. (2025). EdD-activism through the dissertation in practice and beyond: An introduction to the special issue. Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 10(4), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.5195/ie.2025.591

Currin, E. (2023). The positive power of negative capability: Long-term teacher researchers in the United States. In N. Mead (Ed.), Moral and political values in teacher education over time: International perspectives (pp. 93–112). Routledge.

Currin, E., Tamim, S., & Becton, Y. (2023). Consensus is a journey: A programmatic framework for EdD-activism. Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 8(1), 49–57. https://doi.org/10.5195/ie.2023.293

Martin, G., & Currin, E. (2023). The good fight: Action research as resistance. Educational Action Research, 31(4), 781–796. https://doi.org/10.1080/09650792.2022.2033288

Currin, E. (2022). Going deep, wide, and long: The professional endurance of teacher researchers. In B. S. Zugelder & M. L’Esperance (Eds.), Handbook of research on the educator continuum and development of teachers (pp. 17–36). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-3848-0.ch002

Currin, E., & Harris, C. (2021). “We could all do with some school”: The miseducation of Elizabeth and Charles in Netflix’s The crown. In I. Kinane (Ed.), Isn’t it ironic?: Irony in contemporary popular culture (pp. 153–168). Routledge.

Currin, E., Schroeder, S., & McCardle, T. (2021). Portraits of protest in Florida: How Opt-Out makes the personal political. Teachers College Record, 123(5). https://doi.org/10.1177/016146812112300510

Currin, E. (2020). Taking a stance: Teacher researchers’ historical and political positioning. Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 5(2), 20–25. https://doi.org/10.5195/ie.2020.127

Schroeder, S., Currin, E., & McCardle, T. (2020). ‘Solidarity, sisters! We’re all crazy’: The moral madness of opting out of high-stakes testing. Educational Studies, 56(4), 347–365. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131946.2020.1757447

Currin, E. (2019). From rigor to vigor: The past, present, and potential of inquiry as stance. Journal of Practitioner Research, 4(1), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.5038/2379-9951.4.1.1091

Currin, E. (2019). In loco parentis redux: Bob and Linda Belcher at Wagstaff School. In M. Dalton & L. Linder (Eds.), Teachers, teaching, and media: Original essays about educators in popular culture (pp. 47–56). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004398092_005

Currin, E., Schroeder, S., & McCardle, T. (2019). ‘What about race?’: Internalised dominance in the Opt Out Florida movement. Whiteness and Education, 4(2), 199–217. https://doi.org/10.1080/23793406.2019.1631712

Jacobs, J., & Currin, E. (2019). Making the case for practitioner inquiry in doctoral student education: Supporting the development of future teacher educators. In D. Yendol-Hoppey, D. Hoppey, & N. F. Dana (Eds.), Preparing the next generation of teacher educators for clinical practice (pp. 199–226). Information Age Publishing.

Currin, E., & Schroeder, S. (2018). Taking the long view: Cultivating historical thinking in elementary teacher education. The New Educator, 14(1), 5–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/1547688X.2017.1404173

Dana, N., & Currin, E. (2017). Inquiry for equity: Exploring the impact of practitioner research. Journal of Practitioner Research, 2(2), Article 1. http://doi.org/10.5038/2379-9951.2.2.1067

Currin, E. (2015). Do not go gentle into practitioner inquiry. LEARNing Landscapes, 8(2), 157–160.