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Dr. Dennis Attick

Faculty Member


Office: 105A
Teacher Education
College of Arts & Sciences
DennisAttick@clayton.edu
Phone: (678) 466-4826

Biography

Dennis Attick, PhD, serves as Assistant Dean and Professor of Teacher Education at Clayton State University. He has been on faculty at Clayton State since 2010. Prior to his tenure in high education, Dr. Attick was Education Director at a Residential Treatment Facility and School in Atlanta for 10 years.

Education

BS, English, Southern Connecticut State University, 1992

MEd, Special Education, Georgia State University, 2000

Ph D, Education Policy Studies, Georgia State University, 2008

Awards and Honors

Making Things Better Award-Nominee, , Award, 2018

Intellectual Contributions

Dennis Attick, Back to The Future: Orwell's 1984 and Dystopian Education Todday February 01 2013

Dennis Attick, Winifred C Nweke, Rosetta L Riddle, GaPSC Program Approval Review - Leadership Team

Dennis Attick, Homo Economicus at School: Neoliberal Education and Teacher as Economic Being, Journal of the American Education Studies Association – January 1 2017

Dennis Attick, Winifred Nweke, Rosetta Riddle, Program Approval Review - Leadership Team - Progress Report

Contracts, Grants, and Sponsored Research

Dennis Attick, Arts & Sciences Mini Grant, CSU, Clayton State University, 1000.00, Funded –  December 2014 to May 2015

David B Williams, Anthony Stinson, David Plaxco, Elliot Krop, Romesa Davis, Kelli L. Nipper, Dennis Attick, Clayton Teach: Building Professional Learning Communities of Secondary Mathematics Teachers in the Southeast Atlanta Metropolitan Area, National Science Foundation, Federal, 1199672, Not Funded –  August 2023 to March 2024

Presentations

Shayla Mitchell, Dennis Attick, “Education is Too Important To Be Left to The Educators: Who Holds the Power in Education Policy and Why?” , Southern History of Education Society March 10 2012

Dennis Attick, Education as Spectacle in Race to the Top Schooling, Southeast Philosophy of Education Society February 17 2012

Teaching Interest

Philosophy of Education
History of Education
Teacher Development

Research Interest

Philosophy of Education, History of Education, Epsitemology and Curriculum, Privatization of Schools