FAAssistant​/Associate Professor of Education in Curriculum and Instruction

Description

The successful candidate will teach undergraduate courses in Secondary Education Licensure, graduate courses in Curriculum and Instruction, support alternative licensure pathways and/or teach in other vacancy needs of the department that match the expertise of the candidate.

Duties related to teaching include but are not limited to:

Teaching assignments may include evening and online courses. Summer assignments may vary depending upon enrollment, funding, and department needs.

Responsively, The Department of Teaching & Learning is addressing the teacher shortage across our region by developing alternative expedited pathways for Illinois Professional Educator License (PEL). The successful candidate will be charged with:

The Secondary Education Program in the School of Education Health and Human Behavior (SEHHB) is committed to the development of Socially-Just Teachers (SJTs). We invite ambitious and socially-conscious faculty candidates to join our growing faculty of scholar-activists who are committed to the development of SJTs. Our newly created program, which is rooted in Critical Race Pedagogy, can be best understood as a guided-journey for our preservice teachers, where they learn how to engage in a praxis of socially-just teaching.

This journey is created through a strategically designed program of courses where candidates forge a lifelong commitment to the praxis of justice in education, which is reflected in our three conceptual framework domains:
Critical Race Pedagogy, Critical Race Praxis, and Conscientious-Community Building.

Our conceptual framework is infused into all of our courses in hopes of constructing a liberatory education as something commonplace for US education. In order to move towards our goal, we require our preservice secondary education teachers to engage in a host of antiracism practices with special attention given to critical inquiry, self-reflection, and the praxis of being counter-hegemonic.

We are looking for a colleague who can help with the implementation of this vision and play an important role in the development of secondary socially-just teachers. Specifically, we are looking for an education generalist who has an established personal and professional commitment to advancing access for historically marginalized peoples, commitment to educational equity for all humans, and commitment to dismantling systems of re/oppression in education.

Candidates must have an established personal and professional commitment to advancing access for historically marginalized peoples, commitment to educational equity for all humans, and commitment to dismantling systems of re/oppression in education.

Continuing tenure-track position for nine months. Summer appointment is contingent upon availability of funds and enrollment. Beginning date of appointment is in August 2026.

State

Earned doctorate in Foundations of Education, Curriculum and Instruction, Urban Education, Equity Studies or closely related field. (ABD may be considered, but the completed doctoral degree is required by August 2026 for continued employment). We are actively seeking scholars with experiences in any of the following content area(s): social sciences, social justice education, urban education, historical studies, political science, geography, mathematics, biology, chemistry, foreign or world languages, english language arts.

Applicants must have experience in teaching preservice teachers, and possess strengths in foundations of education, liberatory pedagogies, canon and non-majoritarian assessments, learning environment, and/or differentiated instruction.

We seek a scholar who can: